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<H3>What is the GNU&nbsp;Hurd?</H3>
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The GNU&nbsp;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).
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<H3>What's new?</H3>
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<dt>27 April 2006</dt>
<dd>
<p>The GNU&nbsp;Hurd project will participate in this year's
<strong>Google Summer of Code</strong>, under the aegis of the GNU project.</p>

<p>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 <a
href="/software/hurd/help.html#TOCmail">bug-hurd mailing list</a> or the <a
href="/software/hurd/help.html#TOCirc">#hurd IRC channel</a>.</p>

<ul>

<li>Make GNU&nbsp;Mach use more <a
    href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5488">up to date
    <em>device drivers</em></a>.</li>

<li>Work on <a
    href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5489">GNU&nbsp;Mach's
    <em>IPC / VM system</em></a>.</li>

<li>Design and implement a <a
    href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5485"><em>sound
    system</em></a>.</li>

<li>Transition the Hurd libraries and servers <a
    href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5487">from
    <em>cthreads</em> to <em>pthreads</em></a>.</li>

<li>Find and implement a reasonable way to make the Hurd servers use <a
    href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5490">
    <em>syslog</em></a>.</li>

<li>Design and implement <a
    href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=1619">
    <em>libchannel</em></a>, a library for streams.</li>

<li>Rewrite <a
    href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5469">
    <em>pfinet</em></a>, our interface to the IPv4 world.</li>

<li>Implement and make the Hurd properly use <a
    href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5503">
    <em>extended attributes</em></a>.</li>

<li>Design / implement / enhance support for the...

    <ul>
    <li><a
        href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5486"><em>Andrew
        File System (AFS)</em></a>;</li>
    
    <li><a
        href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5497"><em>NFS
        client</em> and <em>NFSd</em></a>;</li>
    
    <li><a
        href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5498"><em>EXT3
        file system</em></a>;</li>
    
    <li><a
        href="http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5499"><em>Logical
        Volume Manager (LVM)</em></a>.</li>
    </ul>

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<p>Please see the page
<a href="/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html">GNU guidelines for Summer of
Code projects</a> about how to make an application and
<a href="/software/soc-projects/ideas.html">Summer of Code project ideas
list</a> for a list of tasks for various GNU projects and information about
about how to submit your own ideas for tasks.</p>
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<DT>02 March 2006</DT>
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Added a Slovak translation
of <A HREF="/software/hurd/whatsnew.html"><STRONG>What's New</STRONG></A> by
Peter Kotrcka.
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<DT>08 February 2006</DT>
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Added a Turkish translation
of <A HREF="/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html"><STRONG>Towards a New Strategy of
OS Design</STRONG></A> by Oktay Po&ccedil;an.
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<DT>02 October 2005</DT>
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Added Polish translations
of <A HREF="/software/hurd/whatsnew.html"><STRONG>What's
New</STRONG></A>,
<A HREF="/software/hurd/hurd.html"><STRONG>GNU&nbsp;Hurd</STRONG></A>,
<A HREF="/software/hurd/gnumach.html"><STRONG>GNU&nbsp;Mach</STRONG></A>, and
<A HREF="/software/hurd/mig.html"><STRONG>GNU&nbsp;MIG</STRONG></A> by Andrzej Zaborowski.
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<DT>20 September 2005</DT>
<DD>
Material from the Operating System topic during
the <A HREF="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software
Meeting</A> which took place this summer
is <A
HREF="http://medias.2005.libresoftwaremeeting.org/topics/os/">available
online</A>.  Included are slides and recordings of talks by Marcus
Brinkmann and Neal Walfield about the Hurd/L4 port.
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<DT>22 August 2005</DT>
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Added Esperanto translations of too many pages to list by Ludovic
Court&egrave;s.
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<DT>29 July 2005</DT>
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Added a Italian translation
of <A HREF="/software/hurd/hurd.html"><STRONG>GNU
Hurd</STRONG></A> by Carlo Palma.
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<DT>26 July 2005</DT>
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Added Dutch translations
of <A HREF="/software/hurd/whatsnew.html"><STRONG>What's
New</STRONG></A> and <A HREF="/software/hurd/hurd.html"><STRONG>
GNU&nbsp;Hurd</STRONG></A> by Roan Embrechts.
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<DT>28 January 2005</DT>
<DD>
Marcus Brinkmann added
<A HREF="/software/hurd/hurd-l4.html">a small web page</A> describing
the ongoing developments on the Hurd-to-L4 port.
<P>
</DD>

<DT>21 August 2003</Dt>
<DD>
Added a link to Patrick Strasser's <A
HREF="http://www.htu.tugraz.at/~past/hurd/global/">the Hurd Source
Code Cross Reference</A> in all the "Source code" sections.
<P>
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<DT>16 July 2003</DT>
<DD>
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 J&auml;hrling decided to write a <A
HREF="http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2003-07/msg00029.html">short
summary</A> of what happened there.  Many thanks to Wolfgang
J&auml;hrling, Volker Dormeyer and Michael Banck!
<P>
</DD>

<DT>2 July 2003</DT>
<DD>
The tarball for Debian GNU/Hurd that Marcus Brinkmann made over the
years has been discontinued in favour of Jeff Bailey's
<A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/crosshurd">crosshurd</A> 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.
<P>
</DD>

<DT>14 February 2003</DT>
<DD>
The <A HREF="/software/hurd/docs.html#UsersGuide">GNU/Hurd User's Guide</A>
is now accessible through the <A HREF="/software/hurd/docs.html">Documentation
</A> section of the Hurd web pages.
<P>
</DD>

<DT>18 January 2003</DT>
<DD>
Ga&euml;l Le Mignot, president of HurdFr,
<A HREF="http://news.hurdfr.org/gen.php3/2002/11/05/44,0,1,0,0.html">
presented the GNU&nbsp;Hurd on 22 November</A>
2002 at EpX in Paris.
<A HREF="http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/">English slides</A> and
<A HREF="http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-fr/">French slides</A> of the
talk are also available.
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