URLs for new developers 20000822

["Jim Franklin" <cykick2@home.com>]

Hi Folks,

  URLs for new developers is now changed to the hurd development and information links.  I am attaching a copy named the _hurd_links.html that you can store in your file for quick access if you wish.

 

Have fun

Jim

Title: The Hurd Development and Information Links

GNU GPL Copyright by Jim Franklin 2000 last update 20000821

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 and bug-hurd mailing lists.
      • 1.1.1.1 Accessing the GNU mailing list archives. (Read the README!)
      • (Note: the GNU archives are not easy to read at present use the debian archives for ease of use. Some very interesting info does show up at the GNU archives though.)
    • 1.1.2 Joining the debian-help mailing list. (This list carries the most traffic.)
      • 1.1.2.1 Accessing the debian mailing list archives.
  • 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.
      • 1.3.1.2 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.
    • 1.3.2 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.
  • 1.5 Real-time development of the hurd by using the GNU Development resources.
    • 1.5.1 How to use the concurrent versions system.
• 2 Unofficial 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 Unofficial GNU Hurd page with links, todo list and basic howtos.
  • 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 The hurd port to Alpha information website.
  • 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.
  • 2.12 GNU/Hurd installation manual in info format.
• 3 Mach 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.
• 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 .
• 5 GRUB Grand Unified Bootloader.
• 6 Developement tools for the hurd.
  • 6.1 Farid Hajji's mach-crossref.pl generates a cross reference of gnumach functions called from glibc and the Hurd.
• 7 The Single Unix Specification seems to be a superset of POSIX whatever version. It is available online (even as tar file!).
• 8 XFree86 for GNU/Hurd.
  • 8.1 UCHIYAMA Yasushi and Marcus Brinkmann X implementation, follow this thread.
    • 8.1.1 opps and this thread.
    • 8.1.2 xterm binary (what's X windows without xterm?).
  • 8.2 XFree86-3.3.3.1 for GNU/Hurd.
    • 8.2.1 Background reading.
      • 8.2.1.1 kgi project.
      • 8.2.1.2 ggi project.
    • 8.2.2 XFree86-3.3.3.1 for GNU/Hurd patch.
    • 8.2.3 Another XFree86-3.3.3.1 for GNU/Hurd patch.
• 9 A new serverboot is available.
• 10 Autobuilders.
  • 10.1 The autobuilder status and the build logs.
  • 10.2 examples of autobuilder logs.
  • 10.3 A really fast autobuilder.
• 11 File systems, translators, patches and other cool stuff for the hurd.
  • 11.1 Neal Walfield's procfs translator is an emulation layer for linux proc compatibility.
  • 11.2 Igor Khavkine's Kaffe patch. The pthreads may not be functional yet.
  • 11.3 Chris Lingard's libgcj port to the hurd.
  • 11.4 Marcus Brinkmann's FAT filesystem.
  • 11.5 A ramdisk translator.
  • 11.6 Andi Bolka's apache 1.3.12 patch.
  • 11.7 A binary mount.
  • 11.8 UCHIYAMA Yasushi's XFree86-3.3.3.1 for GNU/Hurd patch.
  • 11.9 Perl Filesystem(linux or hurd?).
  • 11.10 OKUJI Yoshinori's patch for CD-rom access. Reference: <20000815185155M.okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
• 12 Keyboards,colortext and stuff.
  • 12.1 Keyboard maps.
  • 12.2 Kalle Niemitalo's colortext.
  • 12.3 GNUMach color support patch courtesy of Marcus Brinkmann.
  • 12.4 SVGATextMode in the hurd.
• 13 General OS Books and articles.
• 14 Init and getty.
  • 14.1 Mo McKinlay's hurd-init hack.
    • 14.1.1 hurd-init hack background.
  • 14.2 Marcus Brinkmann's poor man's init.
  • 14.3 Makefile-style replacement for the sysv init mechanism.
  • 14.4 Makefile-ish init replacement concepts.
    • 14.4.1 CONS is a replacement for MAKE.
    • 14.4.2 Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without makes wrinkles.
  • 14.5 Daemontools services controlled concept (not GPLed).
  • 14.6 Richard Gooch's new init for Linux. In reference to the hurd.
  • 14.7 Juli-Manel Merino Vidal's new getty allows escape sequences.
    • 14.7.1 more getty references.
• 15 kinda relevent
  • 15.1 You can get lsh here or here. The 0.9.4 and 0.9.5 are probably the most stable versions.
  • 15.2 Journaled File System.
  • 15.3 Gordon Matzigkiet's Figure is a portable, general-purpose application framework.
  • 15.4 MIT Exokernel Operating System.
• 16 wishlist ideas.
  • 16.1 Filesystem ideas.
  • 16.2 In the same manner of transparent ftp, we can have transparent http.
  • 16.3 General wishlist ideas.
  • 16.4 PPP for Hurd Specification.
  • 16.5 magic-numbers.