"Today the new website for www.archhurd.org was made live; matching designs for the other subdomains (bbs, wiki, aur, bugs, lists, and projects) will be created over the next couple of weeks or months..."
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The Hurd: GNU's quest for the perfect kernel
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So what is the state of the Hurd? Is it vaporware, like Duke Nukem Forever? Fortunately not: the code exists, there is still work going on (for instance as part of Google Summer of Code), and there are even some relatively functional Hurd distributions. Let's look first at the code and the current architecture, and then at the Hurd distributions.
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Mini GNU Hackers Meeting at RMLL 2010, Bordeaux, 6-11 July.
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"The 11th Libre Software Meeting (aka. RMLL) began this Tuesday, July 6th, in Bordeaux, France. A small group of GNU hackers will be present and a GNU developers room will be available for discussions and lightning talks..."
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GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise
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The HURD was meant to be the true kernel at the heart of the GNU operating system. The promise behind the HURD was revolutionary – a set of daemons on top of a microkernel that was intended to surpass the performance of the monolithic kernels of traditional Unix systems and in doing so, give greater security, freedom and flexibility to the users – but it has yet to come down to earth.
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A month of the Hurd: Arch Hurd, FOSDEM preparations and a thesis on mobile Hurd objects.
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«Hurd having been in development for so long, but still not production-ready; and with Linux as a mature free kernel being firmly established as the de-facto standard kernel for the GNU system -- people often wonder: why haven't developers abandoned the Hurd long ago?
Read more »Sean Rants: The Importance of GNU/HURD (New Version)
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In this episode of Sean Rants, Sean talks about Free Software, GNU/HURD, and the possible future of Free technologies.
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Why Europe Should Fund the GNU/Hurd System
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"A Dutch university has landed a European Research Council grant to continue work on a Unix-type operating system that aims to be more reliable and secure than GNU/Linux or Microsoft Windows..." -- see also The GNU Hurd project
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GNU Users Groups (last updated $Date: 2009/01/02 16:20:47 $)
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"...On this page we list user groups that are centered on variations of the GNU operating system [...] We also do not list groups which focus on ‘open source’, since we are not part of the open source movement, but rather the
Read more »PyHurd 0.0.0a6
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"PyHurd is an attempt to create full Python bindings to the GNU/Hurd API. It will include bindings to various GNU/Hurd libraries and will have the ability to create translators in Python.
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World without Linux
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"Microsoft CEO and President, Steve Ballmer was happy as a clam today at his WindowsWorld keynote in San Francisco's Gates Center [...] At this point in his keynote speech, there was a disturbance in the front as a group of demonstrators started shouting "GNU-HURD! GNU-HURD! GNU-HURD!" The police quickly hustled them away..."
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Gentoo GNU/Hurd thread in Gentoo Forums
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"Hi, I just wanted to tell you that the Gentoo GNU/Hurd thread in Gentoo forums might be on its way to become active again:
- http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-41939.html ..."
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Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters
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"Hello,
it has been more than three years since the last "Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters", high time for an update on the port:
* Snapshot releases
* Base and toolchain status
* Xen support
* Autobuilder availability and archive coverage improved
* Developer machine
* Summer of Code 2008
* Still no debian-installer
..."
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Microkernels rule!
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"The microkernel has an undeservedly bad reputation. It's time to take a second look..."
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Freedom is... the GNU Operating System
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* «With the Hurd, users can change anything in their system which doesn't affect other users.»
Read more »"Pay attention to your freedom instead of self-serving forecasts" - RMS speaks with Poornam Media
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RMS: «If Microsoft says that ['era of open computing'], it appears to be an attempt at a self-fulfilling prophesy. If people believe it, they may make it come true. The way to deal with that is to refuse to let Microsoft lead you. Pay attention to your freedom instead of self-serving forecasts ...
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