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Recent developments in the Hurd Samuel Thibault 2013 August 24th 1 Its all about freedom #0 “The freedom to run the program, for any purpose” I.e.: ● Freedom from sysadmin! ● WTH is fdisk/mke2fs/... hidden in /sbin? ● I should be able to just work with my disk/network access ● Freedom to innovate ● Experimental filesystem, personal work-flow, new kind of process combination,... ● Also provide freedom from misbehaving programs 2 Its all about freedom #0 From:?xxx?xxx@yyy.fr Subject:?Network?expertise Date:?Thu,?31?Jan?2013?12:37:34?+0100 […]?Would?it?be?possible?to?route?to?my?VPN?the? traffic?of?only?one?application? Actually, also well-known classical issue of full-VPN: traffic of the VPN itself shouldnt go through the VPN! And yet, here root capabilities!! Spoiler: Yes, GNU/Hurd can already do it. Without asking root. 3 Its all about freedom #0 Extensibility for the user ● Mount ones own files ● Access archives content ● Access remote files ● Experiment with filesystems ● Access ones own network ● Access remote networks / VPN ● Access virtual machine network ● Redirect ones sound ● Through network ● Sound effects ● Recording ● ... 4 Outline ● Hurd architecture Overview ● Console support ● Network support ● Nice translators ● Real-life nice story ● Software support ● Hardware support ● Releases future 6 Micro-kernel layering ext2fs sh auth cp pfinet proc root user Kernel Tasks,?memory,?IPC 14 Micro-kernel layering ext2fs sh auth