DDJ: Inside Debian Hurd
December 4th, 2000
The December 2000 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal contains an article entitled 'Inside Debian Hurd' written by Jerry Epplin. The article is quite comprehensive and includes a good general overview of why the Hurd exists, a microkernel architecture overview, and look at the Mach microkernel and Hurd servers.
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