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What is the GNU Hurd?

The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. The Hurd 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).

If you have any news related to the Hurd project, feel free to send a news entry to web-hurd@gnu.org so that it can be added here.


What's new?

27 April 2006

The GNU Hurd project will participate in this year's Google Summer of Code, under the aegis of the GNU project.

The following is a list of items you might want to work on. If you want to modify or extend these tasks or have your own ideas what to work on, please feel invited to contact us on the bug-hurd mailing list or the #hurd IRC channel.

Please see the page GNU guidelines for Summer of Code projects about how to make an application and Summer of Code project ideas list for a list of tasks for various GNU projects and information about about how to submit your own ideas for tasks.

02 March 2006
Added a Slovak translation of What's New by Peter Kotrcka.

08 February 2006
Added a Turkish translation of Towards a New Strategy of OS Design by Oktay Poçan.

02 October 2005
Added Polish translations of What's New, GNU Hurd, GNU Mach, and GNU MIG by Andrzej Zaborowski.

20 September 2005
Material from the Operating System topic during the Libre Software Meeting which took place this summer is available online. Included are slides and recordings of talks by Marcus Brinkmann and Neal Walfield about the Hurd/L4 port.

22 August 2005
Added Esperanto translations of too many pages to list by Ludovic Courtès.

29 July 2005
Added a Italian translation of GNU Hurd by Carlo Palma.

26 July 2005
Added Dutch translations of What's New and GNU Hurd by Roan Embrechts.

28 January 2005
Marcus Brinkmann added a small web page describing the ongoing developments on the Hurd-to-L4 port.

21 August 2003
Added a link to Patrick Strasser's the Hurd Source Code Cross Reference in all the "Source code" sections.

16 July 2003
GNU/LinuxTag 2003 is now over and since there was a talk given about the Hurd, a demo GNU/Hurd machine running and the sale of Hurd t-shirts, Wolfgang Jährling decided to write a short summary of what happened there. Many thanks to Wolfgang Jährling, Volker Dormeyer and Michael Banck!

2 July 2003
The tarball for Debian GNU/Hurd that Marcus Brinkmann made over the years has been discontinued in favour of Jeff Bailey's crosshurd package. To install Debian GNU/Hurd from now on, this package should be used. Another Debian system is required to be installed on the same machine. The GNU/Hurd installation guide has not been updated yet.

14 February 2003
The GNU/Hurd User's Guide is now accessible through the Documentation section of the Hurd web pages.

18 January 2003
Gaël Le Mignot, president of HurdFr, presented the GNU Hurd on 22 November 2002 at EpX in Paris. English slides and French slides of the talk are also available.

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