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[[!meta title="NG Hurd"]]
Hurd-ng is an effort to build a new, "Next Generation" 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.
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# Why ngHurd
This section explains the motivations behind the new design:
* [[Issues_with_L4_Pistachio]]
* [[Limitations_of_the_original_Hurd_design]]
* History of the [[history/port_to_another_microkernel]]
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# Work already done
A [[critique]] of the original Hurd is available.
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.
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# Subjects
## Design processus
* [[Design Goals|DesignGoals]]
* [[Requirements For User|RequirementsForUser]]
* [[Design Principles|DesignPrinciples]]
* [[Philosophy]]
## Concepts
* [[Security]]
* [[Capability Based Microkernel|CapabilityBasedMicrokernel]]
* [[First-class Receive Buffer|FirstClassReceiveBuffer]]
* [[PowerBox]]
* [[What is a Capability|WhatIsACapability]]
* [[What is a Constructor|WhatIsAConstructor]]
* [[What is a Spacebank|WhatIsASpacebank]]
* [[Trivial Confinement vs. Constructor vs. Fork|TrivialConfinementVsConstructorVsFork]]
* [[Copy vs. Revocable Copy vs. Map|CopyVsRevocableCopyVsMap]]
* [[Setuid vs. Constructor|SetuidVsConstructor]]
* [[Hurdish Applications for Persistence|HurdishApplicationsForPersistence]]
* [[What's in a Group|WhatsInAGroup]]
* [[The Polycast Interface|ThePolycastInterface]]
* [[Permission Bits|PermissionBits]]
* [[Cancellation Forwarding|CancellationForwarding]]
## Problems to solve
* [[How Much Confinement Do We Want|HowMuchConfinementDoWeWant]]
* [[Shared Libraries|SharedLibraries]]
* [[Path Max|PathMax]]
## Implementation
* [[Hurd Interafaces|HurdInterafaces]]
* [[Posix Layer|PosixLayer]]
* [[System Structure|SystemStructure]]
## Use Cases
_please move me somewhere better! [[SamMason]]_
* [[Use Case User Filesystem|UseCaseUserFileSystem]]
* [[Use Case Private Keys|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 consensus
* if no choice has been clearly made, all valid positions are described
* withdrawn and invalid positions (proved 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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