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Hurd-ng is an effort to build a new operating system that preserves
the main design goals of the Hurd while fixing some of the Hurd's
shortcomings. There is not yet an official roadmap or a concrete
specification; indeed, much of the work is research oriented.
These pages try to summarize the major discussions and ideas.
[essay](http://www.bestessays.com)
# Why ngHurd
This section explains the motivations behind the new design:
* [[Issues_with_Mach]]
* [[Issues_with_L4_Pistachio]]
* [[Limitations_of_the_original_Hurd_design]]
* History of the [[history/port_to_L4]]
# Work already done
A [[position_paper]] by Marcus Brinkmann and Neal H. Walfield can be found.
A draft specification of the Hurd-NG interfaces has been, but is no longer,
available.
An [essay](http://www.bestessays.com) [[critique]] of the original Hurd is available.
# Subjects
## Design processus
* [[DesignGoals]]
* [[RequirementsForUser]]
* [[DesignPrinciples]]
* [[Philosophy]]
## Concepts
* [[security]]
* [[CapabilityBasedMicrokernel]]
* [[FirstClassReceiveBuffer]]
* [[PowerBox]]
* [[WhatIsACapability]]
* [[WhatIsAConstructor]]
* [[WhatIsASpacebank]]
* [[TrivialConfinementVsConstructorVsFork]]
* [[CopyVsRevocableCopyVsMap]]
* [[SetuidVsConstructor]]
* [[HurdishApplicationsForPersistence]]
* [[WhatsInAGroup]]
* [[ThePolycastInterface]]
* [[PermissionBits]]
* [[CancellationForwarding]]
## Problems to solve
* [[HowMuchConfinementDoWeWant]]
* [[SharedLibraries]]
* [[PathMax]]
## Implementation
* [[ChoiceOfMicrokernel]]
* [[HurdInterafaces]]
* [[PosixLayer]]
* [[SystemStructure]]
## Use Cases
_please move me somewhere better! [[SamMason]]_
* [[UseCaseUserFileSystem]]
* [[UseCasePrivateKeys]]
## Organization
Summaries should obey the following structure:
* if there is a consensus, it is clearly described
* if controversial points remain, there are also described after the consenus
* if no choice has been clearly made, all valid positions are descrbied
* withdrawed and invalid positions (prooved wrong, unrealistic, contradictory
to some design principle, etc.) should be described only very briefly, and
developed in a separate article
Each time a point seems to be overly long with respect to the rest of the
article, it should be summarized in place and developed in a separate article.
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