Hi, I attended a very interesting conference made by kilobug in Lyon last November. I finally got the time to try the Hurd again, but was quickly very disapointed.
- The documentation is difficult to find. I spent a lot of time googling for basic things. - The documentation is scattered all over the net. It seems there's no central place for documentation on the hurd. - The documentation is incomplete. Many parts are not documented. - The documentation is not up to date. Most of the existing Howtos are broken. Well, I'm not only complaining. And I understand that most of the Hurd developpers are more interested in hacking than in providing newbies with help. So, what I propose is to help reorganize the Hurd end-user documentations, adding links and suppressing redundancy between them. Do you actually need somebody for this role ? Those responsible for the different sources of documentation about the Hurd, are you willing to help me in this task ? Of course, you'd have to answer all my idiot questions ;) A few questions to begin with : - Many users need pppoe to connect to the internet today. I understand you can't use pppoe with Debian GNU/Hurd yet. Is is true ? What's missing to get it working ? - Is there a current (ie working with bochs 2) detailed howto for running GNU/Hurd with bochs ? Are there Hurd images for Bochs somewhere ? - Is there an hardware compatibility list ? All those I could find were said to be out of date, like http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/hurd/hurd-hardware.html, which was redirecting the reader to a non-existing page. >From what I saw, there are 3 main sources of info for the Hurd : - http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ - http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd - http://hurd.gnufans.org/ Are there others I still haven't found ? Lucas
