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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
-2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 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
@@ -29,11 +26,13 @@ computing environment as possible.
</div>
</div>
+Download latest stable release [here](https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/hurd-0.9.tar.gz) or [browse the Git repository](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd).
+
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[[!toc levels=2]]
-
+---
# News
[[!inline
@@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ 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
So, you are interested in contributing to the GNU Hurd project? Welcome!
@@ -65,7 +64,7 @@ See our [[source_repositories]] for the source code.
We provide accounts on our [[public_Hurd_boxen]], and there are also several GNU/Hurd [[Distributions|hurd/running/distrib]] that allow for
[[hurd/running/QEMU]] emulation.
-
+---
# Getting Help
There are a couple of different [[FAQ lists|FAQ]].
@@ -77,7 +76,7 @@ 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
@@ -88,19 +87,20 @@ Find more information about it at the
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/]].
+* 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 [[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
-The latest releases are [[GNU Hurd 0.9, GNU Mach 1.8, GNU MIG
-1.8|news/2016-12-18-releases]], 2016-12-18. The Hurd is
-developed by [[a few volunteers in their spare time|faq/how_many_developers]].
+The latest releases are **GNU Hurd 0.9**, **GNU Mach 1.8**, **GNU MIG
+1.8** [[(Release Notes)|news/2016-12-18-releases]], 2016-12-18.
+
+The Hurd is developed by [[a few volunteers in their spare time|faq/how_many_developers]].
The project welcomes any assistance [[you can provide|contributing]].
Porting and development expertise is still badly needed in many key areas.
@@ -108,8 +108,7 @@ 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]].
+Aside from this Wiki, community resources for related projects focus around *[gnu.org](https://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/).