December 4th, 2000
The December 2000 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal contains an article entitled 'Inside Debian Hurd' written by Jerry Epplin. The article is quite comprehensive and includes a good general overview of why the Hurd exists, a microkernel architecture overview, and look at the Mach microkernel and Hurd servers.
The article is available online at:
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