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Mar 10, 2003 |
Mac-on-Linux 0.9.68 is out! |
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It is here, finally! Some highlights:
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Removable CD support (including Mac OS X CD booting) |
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MacOS X audio support |
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Significant performance enhancements (in particular for Mac OS X) |
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Support for XDGA fullscreen video |
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Asynchronous Mac OS block driver |
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Improved keyboard handling (no more "stuck" modifier keys) |
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Correct time in OS X |
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Nicer "no X11-video" window |
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CD-booting flag (startmol --cdboot) |
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Updated man pages |
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Various bug-fixes (yes... MacOS X 10.2.4 works) |
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Some techinal details |
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Skiplist VSID lookup (reduces Mac OS X latency by 15-30 percent) |
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Emulation acceleration under Mac OS X (privileged instruction are replaced rather than emulated). |
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Resource reclaiming. Certain kernel tables are optimized in the idle loop. |
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As usual, the MOL source is available on the download page. Binaries for particular distributions will be made available shortly.
So, what happened with 0.9.66 and 0.9.67? Well, there have been a couple of half-official releases but they were never properly released.
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Old News |
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Sep 5
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Boot MacOS X in MOL 0.9.65! |
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It is now possible to run MacOS X within MOL. Both MacOS 10.1 and 10.2 are supported. The new MOL version also contains support for little endian (remote) X displays. A couple of performance improvements have also gone into this release.
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July 7 |
MOL-0.9.64 released. |
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A new version of MOL is available for download. Main new features in brief:
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Autoconfiguration of the network. No more hassle with NAT and IP masquerading; MOL handles this. DHCP support is also provided to MacOS (if the dhcp server is installed). |
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603 support |
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Support for booting Linux inside MOL.
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The /etc/molrc config file has been splitted into several files residing in /etc/mol. It is now simple to specify alternate configurations and to configure multiple simultaneous MOL sessions. |
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Performance improvements to the MMU layer.
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Bugfixes |
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No longer necessary to be root to start mol the first time.
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Possible to restrict the usage of MOL to specified users only. |
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Less configuration needed. On most setups, just typing startmol should be enough. |
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May 1 |
MOL-0.9.63 released. |
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A brief summary of the changes in this version:
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Performance enhancements to the X11 video driver. |
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A keyboard configuration tool (startmol --keyconfig). |
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Timer calibration fixes. Certain accelerator based machines used to have trobule determining the correct timebase.
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April 13 |
MOL-0.9.62 released. |
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The 0.9.62 release is the download area. In particular, the MacOS 9.2.2 startup delay problem has been fixed.
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Quite Old |
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3/28/2002 |
Broken links fixed. |
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The MOL ftp archive has a slightly new address now.
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8/26/2001 |
New Site Launced. |
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The Mac-on-Linux web site has been reworked completely.
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User Guide Written |
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Check out the new MOL User Guide.
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MOL-0.9.60 released |
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The 0.9.60 release is finally available for download. Some of the new features:
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Autoloading of the Mac OS ROM file. |
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MacOS 9.1 and MacOS 9.2 compatibility |
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The prebuilt RPM support many different kernel versions. |
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Improved startup script (startmol). |
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Man-pages added. |
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Selftest added (startmol --test) |
Note that the binary distribution now comes as two RPMs (mol and mol-kmods). Both are needed!
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6/1/1997 |
Birth of MOL |
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It has been around for a while now...
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