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General-discussion FAQs
How many developers are working on the GNU Hurd, and why so
few?
How do RPCs work, similarly to system calls?
When will the Hurd be released?
Why is it that the Hurd still does not do [...] after so many
years of development?
What are the advantages with the Hurd over Linux/BSD?
What is a translator?
Why can't I get the answers I need from Hurd hackers?
Why not just defining `PATH_MAX`, `MAXPATHLEN`, ... `FOO_MAX` and be done?
What is GHAMP?
You say GNU, don't you mean GNU/Hurd?
How can I help?
How difficult would it be to switch to another microkernel?
Could there be a compatibility with Linux binaries?
What is a Multiserver Microkernel?
How to report bugs?
Where's the sauce?
Is the Hurd slow?
What happened with the Hurd ports to the OSKit Mach / L4 / Coyotos / Viengoos
microkernels?
Hardware/Software support FAQs
what hardware is supported? What drivers does GNU/Hurd have?
Why is my laptop `$RANDOM_MODEL` not supported?
What software is available for GNU?
Is there still a 2 GiB ext2fs disk partition limit?
Is there a 64-bit version?
Is audio supported?
binary compatibility
I heard that context-switch on Mach is really slow?
What filesystems are supported?
Does Hurd support FUSE?
network transparency
POSIX compatibility
830 MiB RAM Limit
During installation I get Failed to read random seed file
Are SATA disk drives supported?
Can I share swap space between GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd?
Sharing the userspace between GNU Hurd and the Linux kernel
Does GNU/Hurd support SMP/Multicore?
Doing a GNU/Hurd System Port
Is USB supported?
Is Wayland supported?
Is wireless network supported?
Running GNU/Hurd FAQs
Fails to boot with /dev/console: Read-only file system
Fails to boot, hangs at auth.
Some entries in /dev are bogus
EIEIO: 'Computer bought the farm'... Err, what?!
Emacs says /dev/tty is not a tty
How about the virtual console?
dmesg, kernel logs
failed to initialize kvm
ps hangs
How do I initialize a serial console on the Hurd?
Why is `/usr' a symbolic link to `.'?
On X session logout, the X server does not exit
Normal users can't start X
Cannot open keyboard (No such file or directory)
Debian GNU/Hurd FAQs
other repositories
Open Issues FAQs
bad hypermeta data
Boot seems to get stuck at EATA probing
fsck shows a lot of errors
Help, I've just gotten a db> prompt
Assertion `__pthread_threads' failed
native-install doesnt finish
Help, I can't even log in
Development FAQs
debugging inside glibc
debugging translators
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