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). More detailed.
News
Samuel Thibault has implemented support for the PAE feature offered by modern x86 processors. This largely faciliates the deployment of GNU/Hurd systems running as a Xen domU on top of a standard Debian GNU/Linux Xen dom0, for example.
Please see the community/gsoc page for information about how our Google Summer of Code 2008 participation worked out. Congratulations to both students and mentors!
The GNU Hurd project has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for the Google Summer of Code 2008! If you are a student and looking for a job during the summer, take a look at our project ideas list--here's your chance to help improving the GNU Hurd including mentoring from our side and being paid compensation from Google's!
The application deadline has been extended to Monday, 2008-04-07, so there's more time for you students to hand in your Hurd applications.
A number of GNU Hurd developers will again (as already in the previous years) meet at the time of the FOSDEM 2008, which will take place from 2008-02-23 to 24 in Brussels, Belgium.
The page about FOSDEM 2008 has some details. Contact us if you are interested in meeting with us.
Stefan Siegl added support for IPv6 networking to the pfinet translator.
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Contributing
To help the Hurd you can for example (from high level stuff to the inner core)
- Contribute to these web pages,
- Run a GNU/Hurd system, and help others get their systems running,
- Port applications to work in Hurd,
- Write translators to extend the Hurd,
- Work on the Hurd on Mach, or
- Help to port the Hurd to a modern microkernel.
Read about ways to contribute in more detail.
Getting Help
There are a couple of different Hurd FAQs. There are a number of IRC channels and several different mailing lists with searchable archives.
Before asking a question on a mailing list or on IRC, first, please try to answer your own question using a search engine and reading the introductory information. If you have done this and you cannot find the answer to your question, feel free to ask on a mailing list or on IRC.
Running the Hurd
The most functional distribution of the Hurd is the one provided by Debian. Find more information about it at the Debian GNU/Hurd website.
There are various possibilities of running a GNU/Hurd system.
And these web pages are a living proof of the usability of the Hurd, as they are rendered on a Debian GNU/Hurd system. More people using GNU Hurd in production can be found on ?WhoRunsGNU.
Current Status
There has not yet been an official 1.0 release. The Hurd is developed by a few volunteers in their spare time. The project welcomes any assistance you can provide. Porting and development expertise is still badly needed in many key areas.
Functional systems are installable in a dual-boot configuration. Development systems are currently mostly based on the Debian GNU/Hurd port sponsored by the Debian project.
Community resources for related projects focus around these pages, http://hurd.gnu.org/, the mailing lists and the IRC channels.
If you want to see the current discussions in the Hurd project, please have a look at the bug-hurd mailinglist archives.
For more details, please read our writeup on the current state of the GNU Hurd.
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