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1.1       root        1: We are pleased to announce version 1.3 of the GNU distribution of the
                      2: Mach kernel.  It may be found in the file (about 3.6 MB compressed)
                      3: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnumach/gnumach-1.3.tar.gz;
                      4: unidiffs from version 1.2 (about 310 KB compressed) are in
                      5: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnumach/gnumach-1.2-1.3.diff.gz.
                      6: 
                      7: This distribution is only for x86 PC machines.
                      8: Volunteers interested in ports to other architectures are eagerly sought.
                      9: 
                     10: We are no longer actively developing version 1.x of GNU Mach.  We plan to
                     11: make only necessary bug fixes or trivial enhancements in the 1.x line,
                     12: and make further 1.x releases only as necessary for those purposes.
                     13: New development efforts have been underway for some time on a new version
                     14: of GNU Mach using the OSKit from the University of Utah for hardware
                     15: support.  Those efforts previously called OSKit-Mach are now working
                     16: towards the future version 2.0 of GNU Mach.
                     17: 
                     18: Aside from bug fixes, major changes from 1.2 (from the NEWS file) are:
                     19: 
                     20: The kernel now directly supports "boot scripts" in the form of multiboot
                     21: module names with the same syntax as the Hurd's `serverboot' program.
                     22: That is, instead of telling GRUB "module /boot/serverboot", you can give
                     23: GRUB a series of command like "module /hurd/ext2fs ${...}" where the
                     24: syntax after "module" is the same as in boot scripts for Hurd's `serverboot'.
                     25: 
                     26: The kernel message device `kmsg' is now enabled by default.
                     27: --disable-kmsg turns it off.
                     28: 
                     29: Large disks (>= 10GB) are now correctly supported, the new get_status
                     30: call DEV_GET_RECORDS can return the number of records of a device.
                     31: 
                     32: Lots of tweaks have been done to the virtual memory management to make
                     33: it perform better on today's machines.
                     34: 
                     35: The console supports ANSI escape sequences for colors and attributes.
                     36: 
                     37: Support for the terminal speeds B57600 and B115200 has been added.
                     38: 
                     39: 
                     40: Bug reports relating to this distribution should be sent to
                     41: [email protected].  Requests for assistance should be made on
                     42: [email protected].
                     43: 
                     44: The md5sum checksums for this distribution are:
                     45: 
                     46: 61e90803889b079a380e30056b21d076  gnumach-1.3.tar.gz
                     47: 56ca6aa9040c4d4c4ef7a9757bb0509c  gnumach-1.2-1.3.diff.gz

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