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| author | Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org> | 2001-10-06 22:50:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org> | 2001-10-06 22:50:31 +0000 |
| commit | 1c817dcb71616bec9682861f49e568773e5285a8 (patch) | |
| tree | da88f1b3c4a9157ed5a014ed05226905e2743610 /gnumach.html | |
| parent | ef7c67398917e203b5127812dbeab3c7724bc29c (diff) | |
gnumach-doc: New directory. In that directory:
Makefile, fdl.texi, gpl.texi, mach.html, mach.ps, mach.texi, mach_1.html,
mach_10.html, mach_11.html, mach_12.html, mach_13.html, mach_14.html,
mach_15.html, mach_16.html, mach_17.html, mach_2.html, mach_3.html,
mach_4.html, mach_5.html, mach_6.html, mach_7.html, mach_8.html,
mach_9.html, mach_abt.html, mach_fot.html, mach_ovr.html, mach_toc.html,
version.texi: New files. Those contain the source and generated files of
the GNU Mach reference manual.
gnumach-docs.html, gnumach-download.html, gnumach-install.html,
gnumach.html: New files, containing information about gnumach.
devel.html, docs.html, download.html, faq-gen.pl, faq.en.html,
faq.fr.html, faq.ja.html, help.html, history.html, hurd-talk.html,
hurd.html install.html: Add menu entries for the above new files,
and some other minor modifications.
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diff --git a/gnumach.html b/gnumach.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bacff9b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnumach.html @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>The GNU Hurd - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</TITLE> +<LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:web-hurd@gnu.org"> +<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="hurd"> +</HEAD> +<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#1F00FF" ALINK="#FF0000" VLINK="#9900DD"> +<TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="15"> +<TR> +<TD COLSPAN="2"> +<IMG SRC="/graphics/hurd_sm_mf.jpg" ALT=" [image of the Hurd logo] "> +[ + <A HREF="/software/hurd/gnumach.html">English</A> +] +</TD> +</TR> +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" BGCOLOR="#eeeeee"> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/hurd.html"><STRONG>The GNU Hurd</STRONG></A><BR> + <BR> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/docs.html">Documentation</A><BR> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/install.html">Installation</A><BR> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/help.html">Getting Help</A><BR> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/download.html">Source Code</A><BR> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/devel.html">Development</A><BR> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/history.html">History</A><BR> + <BR> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/gnumach.html"><STRONG>GNU Mach</STRONG></A><BR> + <BR> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/gnumach-docs.html">Documentation</A><BR> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/gnumach-install.html">Installation</A><BR> +<A HREF="/software/hurd/gnumach-download.html">Source Code</A><BR> +</TD> +<TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP"> +<HR> +<P> +<H3><A NAME="contents">Table of Contents</A></H3> +<UL> + <LI><A HREF="#introduction" NAME="TOCintroduction">Introduction to Mach</A> + <LI><A HREF="#advantages" NAME="TOCadvantages">Advantages of GNU Mach</A> + <LI><A HREF="#status" NAME="TOCstatus">Status of the project</A> +</UL> +<P> +<HR> + +<H3><A HREF="#TOCintroduction" NAME="introduction">Introduction to GNU Mach</A></H3> +<P> +GNU Mach is the microkernel of the GNU system. A microkernel provides +only a limited functionality, just enough abstraction on top of the +hardware to run the rest of the operating system in user space. The +GNU Hurd servers implement the POSIX compatible base of the GNU system +on top of the microkernel architecture provided by Mach. +<P> +Currently, GNU Mach runs on IA32 machines. GNU Mach should, and +probably will, be ported to other hardware architectures or other +microkernels in the future. Mach was ported to many operating systems +in the past. +<P> +GNU Mach is maintained by the Hurd developers for the GNU project. If +you need help with GNU Mach or want to contribute to the development +of the microkernel, you should <A +HREF="/software/hurd/help.html">contact the Hurd people</A>. + +<H3><A HREF="#TOCadvantages" NAME="advantages">Advantages of GNU Mach</A></H3> +GNU Mach is not the most advanced microkernel known to the planet, nor +is it the fastest or smallest, but it has a rich set of interfaces and +some features which make it useful as the base of the Hurd system. +<DL> +<DT><STRONG>it's free software</STRONG></DT> +<DD> +Anybody can use, modify, and redistribute it under the terms of the +<A HREF="/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License (GPL)</A>.</DD> +</DD> +<DT><STRONG>it's built to survive</STRONG></DT> +<DD> +As a microkernel, GNU Mach doesn't implement a lot of the features +commonly found in an operating system, but only the bare minimum that +is required to implement a full operating system on top of it. This +means that a lot of the operating system code is maintained outside of +GNU Mach, and while this code may go through a complete redesign, the +code of the microkernel can remain comparatively stable. +</DD> +<DT><STRONG>it's scalable</STRONG></DT> +<DD> +Mach is particularly well suited for SMP and network cluster +techniques. Thread support is provided at the kernel level, and the +kernel itself takes advantage of that. Network transparency at the +IPC level makes resources of the system available across machine +boundaries (with NORMA IPC, currently not available in GNU Mach). +</DD> +<DT><STRONG>it exists</STRONG></DT> +<DD> +The Mach microkernel is real software that works Right Now. It is not +a research or a proposal. You don't have to wait at all before you +can start using and developing it. Mach has been used in many +operating systems in the past, usually as the base for a single UNIX +server. In the GNU system, Mach is the base of a functional +multi-server operating system, the Hurd. +</DD> +</DL> + +<H3><A HREF="#TOCstatus" NAME="status">Status of the project</A></H3> +<P> +GNU Mach is used as the default microkernel in the GNU/Hurd system. +It is compatible with other popular Mach distributions. The device +drivers for block devices and network cards are taken from Linux 2.0.x +kernel versions, and so a broad range of common hardware is supported. +<P> +However, the Linux device drivers have been improved greatly since the +2.0.x version, and a new version of Mach based on the OSKit library is +being worked on, which uses newer drivers and in general has cleaner +machine specific support code. +</TD> +</TR> +</TABLE> + +<HR> + +[ + <A HREF="/software/hurd/gnumach.html">English</A> +] + +<HR> + +<P> +Return to <A HREF="/home.html">GNU's home page</A>. +<P> + +Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to + +<A HREF="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><EM>gnu@gnu.org</EM></A>. +There are also <A HREF="/home.html#ContactInfo">other ways to +contact</A> the FSF. +<P> + +Please send comments on these web pages to + +<A HREF="mailto:web-hurd@gnu.org"><EM>web-hurd@gnu.org</EM></A>, +send other questions to +<A HREF="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><EM>gnu@gnu.org</EM></A>. +<P> +Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc., +59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA +<P> +Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is +permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. +<P> +Updated: +<!-- timestamp start --> +$Date$ $Author$ +<!-- timestamp end --> +<HR> +</BODY> +</HTML> |