Gordon's Hurd Page

This page is dedicated to the GNU Hurd operating system. Right now it's quite simple, and under massive construction. All I want to do is get some important information on the Web as soon as possible. When I have more time (yeah, right), I'll start putting in links and other snazzy stuff.

Until this document is more complete, I'll put a ** next to unfinished pages, so you don't have to download a lot of garbage.

Disclaimer!

Speaking of garbage... in case it isn't already obvious, please take everything that I've put in here with a grain of salt. These documents were written by me, and represent my opinions only.

Sometimes, I may cite other sources, but I take responsibility for any errors, omissions, or inaccuracies. I would appreciate it if you would tell me how these pages can be improved, because I want them to be accurate and complete!

Index

• A quick start to bootstrapping the Hurd. It's becoming more obvious to me that not everybody wants to compile the Hurd from scratch. So, this link will be updated with all the latest Hurd developments, especially those that will allow people to bootstrap the Hurd in the fastest way possible.
• How I bootstrapped the 950411 Hurd snapshot from scratch. It took me about three weeks to compile it the first time, so I hope this document will help other people do it in much less time. The current world record is 2 days. Note: this method is not recommended anymore. It is much easier just to install the Hurd binaries, then compile the Hurd natively. See the above quick start guide - installing the binaries took me 4 hours, and that was without any other help.
• Links to other sources of information on Mach, GNU and the Hurd.