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  Mar 10, 2003 Mac-on-Linux 0.9.68 is out!
   


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)
 
 
 
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.
 
 

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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Sep 5  

 Boot MacOS X in MOL 0.9.65!
   

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.
 
  July 7  MOL-0.9.64 released.
   

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.

 

  May 1 MOL-0.9.63 released.
   

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.

 

   April 13   MOL-0.9.62 released.
   

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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   3/28/2002   Broken links fixed.
   

The MOL ftp archive has a slightly new address now.
 
   8/26/2001   New Site Launced.
   

The Mac-on-Linux web site has been reworked completely.
 
    User Guide Written
   

Check out the new MOL User Guide.
 
    MOL-0.9.60 released
   

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!
 
   6/1/1997   Birth of MOL
   

It has been around for a while now...