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# Introductory Material
* [[What_Is_the_GNU_Hurd]]
* [[Advantages]]
* [[FAQ]]
* [[*The_Hurd_and_Linux*|/hurd-and-linux]], a comment by Richard Stallman.
* [[*Towards_a_New_Strategy_of_OS_Design*|/hurd-paper]], an architectural
overview by Thomas Bushnell, BSG.
* [[*The_Hurd*|/hurd-talk]], a presentation by Marcus Brinkmann.
* The *[[translator_primer]]*.
* A document about *[[translators]]* by Marcus Brinkmann.
* [[*A_Critique_of_the_GNU_Hurd_Multi-server_Operating_System*|critique]], an
analysis of the GNU Hurd on GNU Mach system, written by Neal Walfield and
Marcus Brinkmann.
## External
* [*Examining the Legendary HURD
Kernel*](http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1180992),
an article by David Chisnall.
Also covers a bit of GNU's and the Hurd's history, fundamental techniques
applied, comparisions to other systems.
# Development
* [[RPCs|/rpc]]: A description of what RPCs are.
* *[[The_GNU_Hurd_Reference_Manual|reference_manual]]*.
* The *[[Hurd_Hacking_Guide]]*, an introduction to GNU Hurd and Mach
programming by Wolfgang Jährling.
* [*Manually Bootstrapping a
Translator*](http://walfield.org/pub/people/neal/papers/hurd-misc/manual-bootstrap.txt),
a text by Neal Walfield about how to *manually connect the translator to
the filesystem*.
* [[*The_Authentication_Server*|auth]], the transcript of a talk about the
details of the authentication mechanisms in the Hurd by Wolfgang Jährling.
* [*The Mach Paging Interface as Used by the
Hurd*](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2002-06/msg00001.html), a
text by Neal Walfield.
* In the
[[Position_paper_*Improving_Usability_via_Access_Decomposition_and_Policy*|ng/position_paper]]
Neal Walfield and Marcus Brinkmann give an overview about how a future,
subsequent system may be architected.
* [*Generalizing mobility for the Hurd*](http://users.student.lth.se/cs07fh9/2009-hammar-hurd-mobility.pdf),
a thesis written by Carl Fredrik Hammar,
investigates the mobility aspect of stores
and how it can be generalized and used for other applications.
The background chapter may be of interest to new developers.
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