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xMach : News : Free powerful distributed Operating System for download
Posted: ( Mon 30th Apr 2001 12:00:53[AM] UTC )
Based on Mach, and POSIX compliant this distributed Operating System, supported on i386 and SUN SPARC among others, can be used to paralell process many single board computers over Ethernet.

xMach : News : xMach Announces Core Team
Posted: ( Wed 25th Apr 2001 08:08:13[AM] UTC )
Joseph Mallett writes "xMach today announces our brand new Core Team. We've also (finally) added a CVS server, as well as a CVSweb front-end so people can browse the source. Since the first Slashdot post, we've accomplished one of our major goals of being GPL-free (and thus fully BSD License'd), as well as added two mailing lists and fixed the wishlist code. Due to Mach's history with Multiprocessing, we are currently looking more and more and the ideas of distributed processing. The code base is now cleaned up, so that everything should compile out of box. Some of our more abitious goals are to move to a multiserver format, and do a major update of the filesystem interfaces, short term. And unlike the HURD, it's software that's here right now, and isn't vapourware."

xMach : News : Less GPL, Less Bloat
Posted: ( Wed 25th Apr 2001 08:04:04[AM] UTC )
Joseph Mallett writes "We've now removed most (all?) of the GPL code. Also, we've integrated the RTMach Lites code, for better application-level compat with modern operating systems. We've got a few individuals working on porting either FreeBSD or OpenBSD device driver frameworks to xMach so that our native drivers (as the Linux ones are gone) will be wider and varying than the (extremely) limited Mach drivers that we currently have. We're also removing all code not pertinent to Mach4 (i.e. OSFMACH and Mach3) as part of our new 'slogan'(?): Proactively Unbloated. Eventually, non bloat will lead to lessening the amount of code to do certain things, which would hopefully lead to better optimisation. As always, we're looking for people to help, and we'll soon have mailing lists and a CVS server, and possibly a GNATS database."

xMach : News : xMach goes to Australia
Posted: ( Tue 20th Mar 2001 04:20:19[AM] UTC )
"Myself, Joseph Mallett, and David Jorm have recently begun to take xMach in a slightly more specialised direction, concentrating on disk and i/o for mass storage, network fileserver, and (possibly) forensics applications. With improvements made to Disk I/O, a server setting could also be suitable. I've begun to squash some of the bugs that were left in by previous developers, because I didn't quite understand some workings of assembley constructs inside GCC. I'm taking a trip to Australia to stay with David Jorm and work out details of xMach and do some (hopefully) serious code hacking. Oh, and the wishlist is now publicly viewable (note: some of the 'wish'es are off topic AT BEST, and some are downright offensive)."

xMach : News : Two new xMach releases.
Posted: ( Tue 20th Mar 2001 04:20:19[AM] UTC )
"We have two new uploads. A binary tarball, and a source tarball. With the source... kernel and lites compile cleanly on FreeBSD, user and kernel compile cleanly on Linux 2.4.1 (Slackware). The binary should be extracted in / and will require a little hacking with symlinks, etc., on whoever's part, but they should work. I don't have a test box, all the fixes are compile-time related... But it IS a step in the right direction. By the way, I redid the website so it's a little cleaner."

xMach : News : New License
Posted: ( Thu 11th Jan 2001 07:07:35[PM] UTC )
xMach is now released under the BSD license, with the understanding that certain portions of the code, which were taken from an outside source, which will be modified and incorporated into xMach at will, but all modifications to them must be made available under the terms of the original license. In other words, you can make a closed-source xMach derivative, but the GPL'd code has to be released publicly under the GPL.

xMach : News : xMach news for 2001
Posted: ( Fri 5th Jan 2001 09:32:00[PM] UTC )
"There should be a good stable source code release Real Soon Now. I'd like to invite the open source community to join the project, I know we've been a bit disorganised, but I'd love to see the readers of FreeOS.com join on and contribute. For those of you not in to kernel hacking, there's a number of sub-projects regarding security and devices and such that might be of interest to you. Also, the wishlist on the website is there now - use it!!"

xMach : News : xMach Quickies.
Posted: ( Mon 4th Dec 2000 02:48:01[PM] UTC )
Official download site is now http://www.xMach.org/src/. Ports now for HP PA-RISC, SGI MIPS, Sun4u, and i386 (official description Not -too- shabby. Still need developers). A online wishlist - feel free to ask for everything you could ever want! A newsgroup - alt.os.xmach. That's the best place to ask questions or send bugs. A few new 'ideas' have been announced. There's more coming this week.