📽️Tutorial for starting

Overview

Also, the Hurd wiki probably can tell us everything, but it would be better if I can show some tutorials for beginners. More choices are good than only one.

Topics

1. Introduction

2. Setting up the development environment

3. Understanding the Hurd architecture

4. Creating a simple Hurd application

5. Contributing to the Hurd project

6. Conclusion

Introduction

The GNU Hurd project is free and open-source, but it is quite different from the open-source projects we have now. Here is a philosophy from the GNU Hurd Wiki.

What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

What is Free Software?

Any contributions to the GNU Hurd project are welcome.

Source Code

The member of the project should download code by using the Developer setup,

it can give you a write permission.

[Here are all the repos of the GNU Hurd](https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=hurd)

• Hurd meta package

  • It with README in this repo

  • git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd.git

• glibc mainance

  • It with README, it shows you how to use glibc with documentation

  • git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/glibc.git

• GNU Mach

  • This repo use to save source code for GNU Mach

  • git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/gnumach.git

• Hurd

  • This repo use to save the source code for the Hurd

  • git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/hurd.git

• The great next stuff

  • It with README in this repo tell you `incubator`

  • git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/incubator.git

• POSIX threading library

  • It is for saving the source code for POSIX threading library

  • git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/libpthread.git

• MIG

  • It is for saving the source code for the Mach 3.0 INterface Generator

  • git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/mig.git

• procfs

  • It is for saving the source code for procfs

  • git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/procfs.git

• unionfs

  • It is for saving the source code for unionfs tanslator for the GNU Hurd

  • git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/unionfs.git

• Viengoos

  • It is for saving the source code for Hurd on L4

  • git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/viengoos.git

• Web pages

  • It is for saving the source code for Hurd's website

  • git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/hurd/web.git

Reference

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/users-guide/using_gnuhurd.html