URLs for new developers 20000822

[Jim Franklin]

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: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.