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Walfield about how to +<q>manually connect the translator to the filesystem</q>. + +<LI> +<A HREF="auth.html">The Authentication Server</A>, the transcript of a talk about the details of +the authentication mechanisms in the Hurd by Wolfgang Jährling. + +<li><a +href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2002-06/msg00001.html"><em>The +Mach Paging Interface as Used by the Hurd</em></a>, a text by Neal Walfield. + +<li><a +href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-01/msg00046.html"><em>A +Critique of the GNU Hurd Multi-server Operating System</em></a>, an +analysis of the GNU Hurd on GNU Mach system, written by Neal Walfield +and Marcus Brinkmann. + +<li><a +href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2007-01/msg00007.html">Position +paper <em>Improving Usability via Access Decomposition and Policy +Refinement</em></a>: Neal Walfield and Marcus Brinkmann give an overview about +how a future, subsequent system may be architected. + +</UL> + +<H3><A HREF="#TOCfaq" NAME="faq">Frequently asked questions</A></H3> +<P> +Please check out the +<A HREF="faq.en.html">Frequently +Asked Questions about the GNU Hurd (33k characters)</A> and their +answers, which cover most issues a new user will be confronted with. +<P> +This document is available in several languages: +<UL> +<LI><A HREF="faq.en.html">English</A> +<LI><A HREF="faq.fr.html">français</A> +<LI><A HREF="faq.de.html">deutsch</A> +<LI><A HREF="faq.ja.html">Japanese</A> +<LI><A HREF="faq.es.html">español</A> +<LI><A HREF="faq.it.html">italiano</A> + +</UL> + +<h3><a href="#TOCwiki" name="wiki">Wiki</a></h3> +<p>A <a href="http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/">wiki</a> is available for +collecting ideas and reciepes. Fell free +to <a href="http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/HowToContributeToThisWiki">contribute</a>! + +<p>Some topics: + +<ul> + +<li><a href="http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/hurd/ng">The future direction of +the GNU Hurd</a>. + +</ul> + + +<H3><A HREF="#TOCmanuals" NAME="manuals">Reference manuals</A></H3> + +<ul> + +<li> +<p> +The GNU Mach Reference Manual documents the architecture, the usage and +the programming of the GNU Mach microkernel. At the moment, the manual +documents the interface completely, but is not very useful as a tutorial or +introduction into the Mach architecture. +<p> +Available Formats: +<ul> +<li><a href="/software/hurd/gnumach-doc/index.html">HTML version</a> +for browsing online;</li> +<li><a href="/software/hurd/gnumach-doc/mach.ps">PostScript version</a> +[around 900KiB];</li> +<li><a href="/software/hurd/gnumach-doc/mach.ps.gz">gzipped PostScript +version</a> [around 300KiB];</li> +<li><a href="/software/hurd/gnumach-doc/mach.pdf">PDF version</a> +[around 700KiB].</li> +</ul> +<p> +If you want to work on the manual, you're advised to make a checkout of the <a +href="gnumach-download.html#cvs">source tree</a>. Be sure to get the +<samp>GNU Mach 1 branch</samp> when you intend to work on the manual. You +can then find the manual's sources in the <samp>doc/</samp> directory. Please +submit any modifications to <a +href="mailto:bug-hurd@gnu.org"><bug-hurd@gnu.org></a> (if possible in +unidiff format, as produced by <samp>diff -u</samp>). + +</li> + +<li> +<P> +The GNU Hurd Reference Manual documents the architecture, the usage +and the programming of the GNU Hurd. At the moment, the manual is +quite incomplete. +<P> +Available Formats: +<UL> +<LI> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/doc/hurd_toc.html">HTML version</A> for browsing online. +</LI> +<LI> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/doc/hurd.ps">PostScript version [1020kB, 91 pages]</A> +for download. +</LI> +</UL> +<P> +If you want to work on the manual, you're advised to make a checkout of the <a +href="download.html#cvs">source tree</a>. You can then find the manual's +sources in the <samp>doc/</samp> directory. 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