Unify perhaps a thousand paragraphs stating what *the Hurd* is.

Hurd/TheGnuHurd -> hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd
hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking -> hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/gramatically_speaking
Hurd/HurdNames, hurd-name.html -> hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/origin_of_the_name
Etc.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 37 deletions

diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn
index 410bf301..2d4dc61d 100644
--- a/index.mdwn
+++ b/index.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 Free
-Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
+Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
 
 [[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable
 id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -9,7 +9,15 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
 is included in the section entitled
 [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
-Welcome to the GNU Hurd!
+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).  *[[Read_on.|hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd]]*
+
+---
 
 **There is a huge bunch of unpolished stuff on here, please help us to tidy
 things up!**  Comments about how that could be tackled are best posted onto
@@ -74,40 +82,6 @@ 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 [[Hurd/WhoRunsGNU]].
 
-## What is the Hurd?
-
-The [[Hurd]] is GNU's replacement for the various UNIX and Linux kernels.
-
-The Hurd is firstly a collection of protocols formalizing how different
-components may interact.  The protocols are designed to reduce the mutual
-[[trust]] requirements of the actors thereby permitting a more
-[[extensible|Extensibility]] system.  These include interface definitions
-to manipulate files and directories and to resolve path names.  This allows
-any process to implement a file system.  The only requirement is that it
-have access to its backing store and that the principal that started it
-own the file system node to which it connects.
-
-The Hurd is also a set of servers that implement these protocols.  The
-servers run on top of [[microkernel/Mach]] and use Mach's
-[[microkernel/mach/IPC]] mechanism to transfer information.
-
-The word *Hurd* is commonly used to refer to one of the following:
-
-  * the Hurd software that runs on top of a [[microkernel]] (most precisely)
-  * a machine running the [[Debian_GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] distribution
-  * the [GNU Hurd](http://hurd.gnu.org/) project including related dependent
-    projects
-  * HIRD of UNIX Replacing Daemons (arguably)
-    * HIRD is an acronym for HURD Interfaces Representing Depth (arguably)
-
-The [[Hurd]] supplies the last major software component needed for a complete
-[[GNU]] operating system as originally conceived by Richard M. Stallman (RMS)
-in 1983.  The GNU vision directly drove the creation and has guided the
-evolution of the [Free Software Foundation](http://www.fsf.org/), the
-organization that is the home of the [GNU project](http://www.gnu.org/gnu/).
-
-[[Hurd/HurdNames]]
-
 
 ## Current Status