资 源 简 介
The Hurd project is a loose community of people sharing a common interest in developing the Hurd kernel, which is the official kernel of the GNU operating system (see http://gnu.org ).
When the Hurd was originally started in 1990, it was the last missing major component for a complete GNU system. Today Linux and other free kernels are available to fill this gap, and the combination of GNU and Linux (often incorrectly called just "Linux", see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html ) is in wide use. However, the Hurd is still interesting due to its unique design, better fitting the GNU philosophy than traditional monolithic kernels like Linux.
The GNU GPL guarantees that all users of software published under this license get the legal permission to adapt the software they are using according to their wishes, and also get the source code and other tools necessary to put this permission to use. However, in traditional operating systems, the kernel and relate