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@@ -27,42 +27,6 @@ license is included in the file COPYRIGHT. ? Generally Speaking -?? Grammatically speaking, what is the Hurd? - -{NHW} ``Hurd'', as an acronym, stands for ``Hird of Unix-Replacing -Daemons''. Hird, in turn, stands for ``Hurd of Interfaces -Representing Depth''. - -We treat ``Hurd'' as a title rather than as a proper name: it requires -an article, as in ``the Hurd''. For instance: ``The ext2 filesystem -is provided by the Hurd, not by Mach.'' Note that all of the -following are incorrect: ``Hurd'', ``HURD'', ``The HURD'', and ``the -hurd''. - -We write ``the GNU Hurd'' instead of ``the Hurd'' when we want to -emphasize that the Hurd is a GNU package. Once this has been made -clear, we usually use the shorter form, without ``GNU''. - -The whole operating system includes not only the kernel and the system -servers, but also many more programs. This system is called ``GNU'', -or ``the GNU operating system''. The GNU programs can also run on -other operating system kernels. We say ``GNU/Hurd'' when we want to -put emphasis on the fact that this is the GNU system running on top of -the Hurd, and to contrast it with the GNU/Linux system which is GNU -using Linux as the kernel. - -Finally, there is ``Debian GNU/Hurd''. This refers to the distribution -of the GNU system as created by the Debian developers. For example: -``What do you run on your laptop? Debian GNU/Hurd, of course.'' - -The French generally write ``le Hurd''--that is, they treat the -name as masculine singular, capitalized as in English. - -When we are referring to the microkernel, we say ``Mach'' and use it -as a proper noun. For example: ``Mach uses the device drivers found -in version 2.0.x of Linux.'' We sometimes say ``The Mach -microkernel'' instead of just ``Mach''. - ?? What mailing lists are there? {NHW} There are four principle mailing lists: |