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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
+2009, 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+<div id="statements">
+<div id="what-is">
+<p class="statement-title">What is the GNU Hurd?</p>
+<p>The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel.
+It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel
+to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and
+other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar
+kernels (such as Linux).
+<em>[[More_detailed|hurd/documentation]].</em></p>
+</div>
+<div id="mission">
+<p class="statement-title">What is the mission of the GNU Hurd project?</p>
+<p>Our mission is to create a general-purpose kernel suitable 
+for the GNU operating system, which is viable for everyday use, 
+and gives users and programs as much control over their 
+computing environment as possible.
+<em>[[Our_mission_explained|community/weblogs/antrik/hurd-mission-statement]].</em></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+---
+
+[[!toc]]
+
+
+## News
+
+[[!inline
+pages="news/* and !*/discussion"
+feedonly=yes
+feedshow=10
+sort=title
+reverse=yes]]
+[[!inline
+pages="news/* and !*/discussion"
+show=5
+feeds=no
+sort=title
+reverse=yes
+template=newsitem
+actions=yes]]
+
+Older news entries can be found in the [[news archive|news]].  For Hurd
+developers' musings have a look at the [[shared weblog|community/weblogs]].
+The [[recent changes]] page lists the latest changes of this website.
+
+
+## Contributing
+
+To help the Hurd you can for example (from high level stuff to the inner core)
+
+* [[Contribute_to_these_web_pages|contributing/web_pages]],
+* [[Run_a_GNU/Hurd_system|index#run]] and help others get their systems running, 
+* [[Port_applications|hurd/running/debian/porting]] to work in Hurd, 
+* Write [[translators|hurd/translator]] to extend the Hurd, 
+* Work on the [[Hurd_on_Mach|contributing#hurd_on_mach]], or
+* Help to port the Hurd [[to_a_modern_microkernel|contributing#hurd_on_modern_microkernel]].
+
+See our [[source_repositories]] for the source code.
+
+Read about ways to contribute [[in_more_detail|contributing]].
+
+## Getting Help
+
+There are a couple of different [[Hurd_FAQs|hurd/FAQ]].
+There are a number of [[IRC_channels|IRC]] and several
+different [[mailing lists]] with searchable archives.
+
+Before asking a question on a mailing list or on IRC, first, please try to
+answer your own question using a search engine and reading the introductory
+information.  If you have done this and you cannot find the answer to your
+question, feel free to ask on a mailing list or on IRC.
+
+<a name="run"> </a>
+## Running the Hurd
+
+The most functional distribution of the Hurd is the one provided by Debian.
+Find more information about it at the
+[Debian GNU/Hurd website](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install).
+
+Along with it there are [[various_ways|hurd/running]] to run a GNU/Hurd system. 
+Three of them are
+
+* installing a [[GNU/Hurd_distribution|hurd/running/distrib]], 
+* running it [[in_Xen|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen]] and 
+* starting a [[Hurd_qemu_image|hurd/running/qemu]] or [[Hurd_LiveCD|hurd/running/live_cd/]].
+
+And these web pages are a living proof of the usability of the Hurd, as they
+are rendered on a [[Debian_GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] system.
+
+
+## Current Status
+
+There has not yet been an official 1.0 release.  The Hurd is developed by a few
+volunteers in their spare time.  The project welcomes any assistance you can provide.
+Porting and development expertise is still badly needed in many key areas.
+
+Functional systems are installable in a dual-boot configuration.  Development
+systems are currently mostly based on the [[Debian_GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] port
+sponsored by the [Debian project](http://www.debian.org/).
+
+Community resources for related projects focus around these pages,
+<http://hurd.gnu.org/>, the [[mailing lists]] and the [[IRC_channels|IRC]].
+
+If you want to see the current discussions in the Hurd project, please have a look at 
+the [bug-hurd mailinglist archives](http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/). 
+If you want to have a look at the current coding work, you can just head over to our
+[[source_repositories]]. 
+
+For more details, please read our writeup on the
+[[current_state_of_the_GNU_Hurd|hurd/status]]. 
+
+
+## How is this site arranged?
+
+The menu on the upper right corner provides a rough structuring about the
+available content.  Just follow those topics and explore these pages.
+
+Further information about this site and how it was created can be found in the
+[[colophon]].
+
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