GNU GPL Copyright by Jim Franklin 2000

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the hurd

development and information links

• 1 Basic information about the hurd can be found at the GNU Project and at Debian.
• 1.1 Mailing lists:
• 1.1.1 Joining the help-hurd mailing list.
• 1.1.1.2 Accessing the GNU mailing list archives for help-hurd.
• (Note: the new GNU archives are easy to read and well presented)
• 1.1.2 Joining the debian-hurd mailing list.
• 1.1.2.1 Accessing the debian mailing list archives.
• 1.1.3 Joining the bug-hurd mailing list.
• 1.1.3.1 Accessing the GNU mailing list archives for bug-hurd.
• 1.1.4 Joining the l4-hurd mailing list for porting the hurd to the l4 microkernel.
• 1.1.4.1 Accessing the GNU mailing list archives for l4-hurd.
• 1.1.5 Joining the web-hurd mailing list for discussion of the hurd documentation.
• 1.1.5.1 Accessing the GNU mailing list archives for web-hurd.
• 1.2 The hurd weekly development update report and archives.
• 1.3 Installation methods of the hurd.
• 1.3.1 Debian installation methods and hardware compatibility.
• 1.3.1.1 Installation Using Debian Packages
• 1.3.1.1.1 Jeff Bailey's cross-compile method.
• 1.3.1.1.2 Neal Walfield's installation guide.
• (Note: this installation guide includes info on X windows, ppp and a slew of minor corrections)
• 1.3.1.1.3 Tutorial about GNU/Hurd installation in texinfo format.
• 1.3.1.2 Installation using the tar archive file.
• 1.3.1.2.1 Matthew Vernon's Easy Guide.
• 1.3.1.2.1.1 Step-by-step analysis.
• 1.3.1.2.1.2 Italiano translation of Easy Guide.
• 1.3.1.3 The home of cross-install, dpkg-hurd and native-install.
• 1.3.1.4 Modified native-install script to check if running from GNU/Hurd.
• 1.3.1.5 Apt for the hurd.
• 1.3.1.5.1 These sites are apt enabled for etc/apt/sources.list .
• 1.3.1.5.2 Neal Walfield's apt-hack.
• 1.3.1.5.3 is apt working?
• 1.3.1.6 Philip Charles' HURD installation disc.
• 1.3.1.6.1 The iso images by http and ftp and rsync.
• 1.3.2 Installing the hurd without preinstalling linux. (follow this thread)
• 1.4 General development information.
• 1.4.1 Learning more about the Hurd.
• 1.4.1.1 Towards a New Strategy of OS Design .
• 1.4.2 Tour of the hurd 0.2.
• 1.4.3 The hurd reference manual.
• 1.4.4 A closer look at translators.
• 1.4.5 Technetcast broadcast made by Thomas Bushnell on 2000-08-07 (both mp3 and real audio formats)
• 1.4.5.1 Transcript of a technetcast broadcast made by Thomas Bushnell.
• 1.4.6 Inside Debian Hurd from Dr. Dobb's Journal December 2000.
• 1.4.7 Preliminary GNU/Hurd User Interface Description.
• 1.4.8 Farid Hajji's abstract on implementing binary compatibility with Linux, *BSD, ...
• 1.4.9 Busybox under the Hurd.
• 1.4.9.1 Follow this thread.
• 1.4.9.2 Minimal Hurd system.
• 1.4.10 GNU C library manual.
• 1.4.10.1 an older version online.
• 1.4.11 Up to date with _sources_.
• 1.4.12 Debian hurd faq.
• 1.5 General Development sites.
• 1.5.1 The hurd port to Alpha information website at Sourceforge using CVS.
• 1.6 Real-time development of the hurd by using the GNU Development resources.
• 1.6.1 How to use the concurrent versions system.
• 2 More sites for the hurd.
• 2.1 Sourceforge sites.
• 2.1.1 The hurd at Sourceforge has a wide variety of tools and features such as forums, bug tracking, patch listing and more.
• (Note: this would be a tres cool place for a bunch of folks to get together and form a developers circle for the hurd.)
• 2.1.2 The hurd documentation project at Sourceforge is a continually growing resource of information about the hurd.
• 2.2 Basic Guides to Debian GNU/Hurd with a mirror here.
• 2.3 Ognyan Kulev's Hurd On Web.
• 2.3.1 and a faster mirror.
• 2.4 The "easy" guide to cross-compiling the GNU Mach kernel on a linux box.
• 2.5 GNU-India has a developers circle which is an Indian gateway to the Free (Swantantra) Software Movement.
• 2.6 Einfuehrung in das GNU/Hurd.
• 2.7 HURD - GNU PROJESI CEKIRDEGI
• 2.8 Le guide facile pour installer le Hurd sur une machine linux.
• 2.9 Le guide d'installation d'un noyau hurd sur une Linux-box.
• 2.10 GNU/Hurd ist das "eigentliche" GNU-System.
• 2.11 GNU/Hurd Russian.
• 3 Mach and GNUMach microkernel.
• 3.1 The Mach Project homepage.
• 3.2 Published and unpublished Mach Papers.
• 3.3 Mach Books.
• 3.4 Mach tutorials and examples.
• 3.4.1 Porting and Modifying the Mach 3.0 Microkernel.
• 3.4.2 Programming the native Mach Kernel.
• 3.4.3 MIG and C Thread Programming.
• 3.4.4 A Brief Description of the POE Server.
• 3.4.5 Mach Internals Tutorial.
• 3.5 Manual Pages for GNUmach, follow this thread.
• 3.6 RTMach also known as Real-Time Mach.
• 3.6.1 Real-Time Mach as it applies to the hurd.
• 3.6.2 Real-Time Mach as it applies to the hurd in Japanese.
• 3.7 Mach articles ftp site found courtesy of Thierry Laronde.
• 3.8 Building GNUMach.
• 3.9 Sources for GNUMach and the hurd.
• 3.10 Igor Khavkine is incorporating the Linux FPU emulation code into gnumach.
• 4 OSKit by The Flux Research Group.
• 4.1 Mach4 UK22 Release Notes.
• 4.2 Operating System Concepts (book).
• 4.3 Marcus Brinkmann's patch for oskit-mach.
• 4.4 OKUJI Yoshinori's upsteam patches for compiling oskit with gcc-2.95 .
• 4.5 OSKit-mach binary for testing.
• 4.6 Knit is a new component definition and linking language for systems code.
• 5 L4 µ-kernel API.
• 6 GRUB Grand Unified Bootloader.
• 7 Developement tools for the hurd.
• 7.1 Farid Hajji's mach-crossref.pl generates a cross reference of gnumach functions called from glibc and the Hurd.
• 8 The Single Unix Specification seems to be a superset of POSIX whatever version. It is available online (even as tar file!).
• 9 XFree86 for GNU/Hurd.
• 9.1 UCHIYAMA Yasushi and Marcus Brinkmann X implementation, follow this thread.
• 9.1.1 opps and this thread.
• 9.1.2 xterm binary (what's X windows without xterm?).
• 9.1.3 XFree, an on-going story.
• 9.1.3.1 Report on X.
• 9.1.4 Set up mouse translator.
• 9.1.5 Install X packages by ftp.
• 9.2 XFree86-3.3.3.1 for GNU/Hurd.
• 9.2.1 Background reading.
• 9.2.1.1 kgi project.
• 9.2.1.2 ggi project.
• 9.2.2 XFree86-3.3.3.1 for GNU/Hurd patch.
• 9.2.3 Another XFree86-3.3.3.1 for GNU/Hurd patch.
• 9.3 XFree86 3.3.6-10.
• 9.4 XFree86 4.0.1 works!
• 9.4.1 XFree86 4.0.1 phase2v21 packages.
• 10 A new serverboot is available.
• 11 Autobuilders.
• 11.1 The autobuilder status and the build logs.
• 11.2 examples of autobuilder logs.
• 11.3 A really fast autobuilder.
• 12 File systems, translators, patches and other cool stuff for the hurd.
• 12.1 Neal Walfield's procfs translator is an emulation layer for linux proc compatibility.
• 12.2 Igor Khavkine's Kaffe patch. The pthreads may not be functional yet.
• 12.3 Chris Lingard's libgcj port to the hurd.
• 12.4 Marcus Brinkmann's FAT filesystem.
• 12.5 A ramdisk translator.
• 12.6 Andi Bolka's apache 1.3.12 patch.
• 12.7 A binary mount.
• 12.8 UCHIYAMA Yasushi's XFree86-3.3.3.1 for GNU/Hurd patch.
• 12.9 Perl Filesystem(linux or hurd?).
• 12.10 OKUJI Yoshinori's patch for CD-rom access. Reference: <20000815185155M.okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
• 12.11 Igor Khavkine's pmake needed a patch to work under the Hurd (MAXPATHLEN issues).
• 12.12 Robert Bihlmeyer's ssh success.
• 12.12.1 follow this thread and this one also.
• 12.13 Igor Khavkine's PAM patch.
• 13 Keyboards,colortext and stuff.
• 13.1 Keyboard maps.
• 13.2 Kalle Niemitalo's colortext.
• 13.3 GNUMach color support patch courtesy of Marcus Brinkmann.
• 13.4 SVGATextMode in the hurd.
• 14 General OS Books and articles.
• 15 Init and getty.
• 15.1 Mo McKinlay's hurd-init hack.
• 15.1.1 hurd-init hack background.
• 15.2 Marcus Brinkmann's poor man's init.
• 15.3 Makefile-style replacement for the sysv init mechanism.
• 15.4 Makefile-ish init replacement concepts.
• 15.4.1 CONS is a replacement for MAKE.
• 15.4.2 Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without makes wrinkles.
• 15.5 Daemontools services controlled concept (not GPLed).
• 15.6 Richard Gooch's new init for Linux. In reference to the hurd.
• 15.7 Juli-Manel Merino Vidal's new getty allows escape sequences.
• 15.7.1 more getty references.
• 16 kinda relevent
• 16.1 You can get lsh here or here. The 0.9.4 and 0.9.5 are probably the most stable versions.
• 16.2 Journaled File System.
• 16.3 Gordon Matzigkiet's Figure is a portable, general-purpose application framework.
• 16.4 MIT Exokernel Operating System.
• 17 wishlist ideas.
• 17.1 Filesystem ideas.
• 17.2 In the same manner of transparent ftp, we can have transparent http.
• 17.3 General wishlist ideas.
• 17.4 PPP for Hurd Specification.
• 17.5 magic-numbers.