Developing Parts for the GNU Hurd System

Contributing

So, you are interested in contributing to the GNU Hurd project? Welcome! Every single contribution is very much encouraged. Please read our detailed recommendations about how to contribute.

See our source repositories for the source code.

Access to a GNU/Hurd System

We provide accounts on our public Hurd boxen, and there are also QEMU images available.

Getting Help

There are a couple of different FAQ lists. There are a number of IRC channels and several different mailing lists with searchable archives.

Before asking a question on a mailing list or on IRC, first, please try to answer your own question using a search engine and reading the introductory information. If you have done this and you cannot find the answer to your question, feel free to ask on a mailing list or on IRC.

Running the Hurd

The most functional distribution of the Hurd is the one provided by Debian. Find more information about it at the Debian GNU/Hurd website.

Along with it there are various ways to run a GNU/Hurd system. Three of them are

• installing a GNU/Hurd distribution,
• running it in Xen and
• starting a Hurd qemu image or Hurd LiveCD.

And these web pages are a living proof of the usability of the Hurd, as they are rendered on a Debian GNU/Hurd system.

Current Status

There has not yet been an official 1.0 release. The Hurd is developed by a few volunteers in their spare time. The project welcomes any assistance you can provide. Porting and development expertise is still badly needed in many key areas.