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diff --git a/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn b/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn index 0b8f7ef6..7a7f3d43 100644 --- a/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn +++ b/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn @@ -1,17 +1,18 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 Free -Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, +2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="What Is the GNU Hurd?"]] -The Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the [[Unix]] kernel. +The Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for [[UNIX]], a popular operating +system [[kernel]]. The Hurd is firstly a collection of protocols formalizing how different components may interact. The protocols are designed to reduce the mutual @@ -22,11 +23,19 @@ process to implement a file system. The only requirement is that it have access to its backing store and that the [[principal]] that started it own the file system node to which it connects. -The Hurd is also a set of servers that implement these protocols. -They include file systems, network protocols and authentication. +The Hurd is also a set of [[servers|translator]] that implement these +protocols. They include file systems, network protocols and authentication. The servers run on top of the [[microkernel/Mach]] [[microkernel]] and use Mach's [[microkernel/mach/IPC]] mechanism to transfer information. +The Hurd provides a compatibility layer such that compiling higher level +programs is essentially transparent; that is, by means of the [[glibc]], it +provides the same standard interfaces known from other [[UNIX]]-like systems. +Thus, for a typical user, the Hurd is intended to silently work in the +background providing the services and infrastructure which the [[microkernel]] +itself has no business implementing, but that are required for higher level +programs and libraries to operate. + The Hurd supplies the last major software component needed for a complete [[GNU_operating_system|running/gnu]] as originally conceived by Richard M. Stallman (RMS) in 1983. The GNU vision directly drove the creation and has |