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The GNU Hurd is under active development.  Because of that, there is no
*stable* version.  We mainly distribute the Hurd sources through
[[Git|source_repositories]].  The latest release is [[GNU Hurd
0.9|news/2016-12-18-releases]].

The translators of the GNU Hurd are shipped under the General Public License,
either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

Although it is possible to bootstrap the GNU/Hurd system from the sources by
cross-compiling and installing the system software and the basic applications,
this is a difficult process.  It is not recommended that you do this.  Instead,
you should get a binary distribution of the GNU/Hurd, which comes with all the
GNU software precompiled and an installation routine which is easy to use.

The Debian project has commited to provide such a binary distribution.
[[Debian_GNU/Hurd|running/debian]] is currently under development and available
in the *unstable* branch of the Debian archive.

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# Introduction

* [[What_Is_the_GNU_Hurd]] - A Brief Description
* [[Advantages]].  And [[challenges]].
* [[History]]
    * [[history/Port_to_another_microkernel]]
* [[Logo]]
* [[Status]]
* [[Translation]] - Localized sites about the Hurd
* [[Donate]]
* [[SeenHurd]] - Media references
* [[Shopping]] - Hurd Gear
* [[FunnyHurd]] - From a different Herd
* [[FAQ]]

# Understanding

* Introductory Material
  * [[Documentation]]
  * [[Introduction to Translators|/hurd-paper#translator]] and
      [[Existing Translators|hurd/translator]]
  * [[Subhurds|hurd/subhurd]]
  * [Gaël Le Mignot](http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/slides/slides.html)
  * [Neal Walfield](http://kerneltrap.org/node/5)
  * [[Hurd Presentations|/documentation#index3h1]]
* Architecture
  * [[Towards_a_New_Strategy_of_OS_Design|hurd-paper]] by Thomas Bushnell, BSG.
      * Marcus Brinkmann's [revisit](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2005-10/msg00651.html)
      * Jonathan S. Shapiro [comments](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2005-10/msg00654.html)
  * [[Critique]] - Analysis
  * [[Hurd_Hacking_Guide]]
* [[Concepts]]

# Using

* [[Running]]
* [[Building]]
* [[running/Distrib]] -- Distributions
* [[Public_Hurd_Boxen]]
* [[Neighborhurd]]s and [[Subhurd]]s
* [[DDE]] -- Old Device Driver Environment
* [[RUMP]] -- Modern Device Drivers

## Common Problems

* [[GNUstep]]
* [[XattrHurd]]: Setting translators under GNU/Linux
* [[SerialConsole]]: Setting up a serial console.

# Contributing

* [[Contributing]]

* [[Open Issues|tag/open_issue_hurd]]

# [[Documentation|hurd/documentation]]