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"In a discussion with the Debian Hurd porters it was decided that the Hurd port stays on FTPMaster until Wheezy is released. Should they have managed to get the port into a state that it is released together with all the others (probably as a technology preview), it is kept in the archive. Should they not manage this the port will be removed from the main archive and move fully to Debian unofficial ports."¹

What is Debian GNU/Hurd ?

Debian GNU/Hurd is an operating system from Debian, but which uses GNU Hurd, which is a set of servers, running on top of the GNU Mach microkernel instead of the kernel named Linux (thus the name Debian GNU/Hurd). Some day, most applications will exist both in Debian GNU/Hurd and in Debian GNU/Linux.

Basic info

• Official port site

• GNU's GNU Hurd

• Installation and testing:

  • http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install

    • Debian "Sid" debian-installer images available http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/.

    • This is the prefered method of install.

  • Cross Hurd

  • Pre-build image files (*.img.*) at http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/

• ?Debian_GNU/Hurd_FAQ

• TheHurd page. (Merge?)

• User/developer discussion mailing list

• Last bits from the project

• IRC channel: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/irc.html

  • #hurd on irc.freenode.net

  • #debian-hurd on irc.debian.org

• Bugs

Goals for releasing in jessie

This is on a separate page:

• Debian_GNU/Hurd_TODO

Goals for later

• IPv6 support in d-i (after it is settled for linux).

• upgrade libfuse compatibility to >= 2.6.5, with fuse_lowlevel.h, http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/libfuse.html

• add cpuid-based autoloading of libc0.3-i686
• add autoloading of libc0.3-xen

Packages in debian-ports

Packages marked with need to be integrated in the main archive.

• (hurd-any) cardmgr-gnumach
  • wifi, can live without
  • postpone
• dash

  • 755446

• gxine
  • No change, just built against fixed samba
• iceweasel
  • build fixes

  • 654381

• ldb
  • build with patched tdb
• mplayer2
  • Hack around PATH_MAX
• ntp
  • Ship ntpdate at least.
• (hurd-any) random-egd
  • make it an alternative to Marcus' C implementation
  • can live without
  • can postpone
• samba

  • PIPE_BUF: 759010

  • TODO: submit patch for faketime usage
• tdb

  • 759008

• (hurd-any) util-hurd
• (hurd-any) wireless-tools-gnumach
  • just for wifi, can live without
  • postpone
• x86info

  • 468696

• xine-lib-1.2
  • No change, just built against fixed samba
• xmms2
  • No change, just built against fixed samba

Developer info

• DD-accessible machines running GNU/Hurd:

  • hurd-i386: see ArchiveQualification/hurd-i386

• ArchiveQualification/hurd-i386

• Debian GNU/Hurd port on alioth

• Debian GNU/Hurd Development

• TODO file, with all sorts tasks we need help on

• NOTES about package status in official archive

• Packages with uninstallable Build-Depends

• Uninstallable packages (EDOS debcheck)

• Basic porting information

• Our patches directory

• Patches that are only needed for Debian (either because they're fixed-upstream, or because of their Debian-specific nature)

• Patches submitted in the Debian BTS

• General FTBFS also affect us (dschepler@gmail.com)

• General FTBFS also affect us (lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net)

• Build logs of Debian GNU/Hurd

• Hurd package on alioth

• crosshurd on alioth

• Daily d-i jenkins

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