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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-11-17 14:56:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-11-17 14:56:39 +0100 |
| commit | 7ee8fdbd4c4e73f075b73a4567734ea4faf8a6e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 2784eb979aadb1473ae0268798b6bde4839ddb6a /microkernel | |
| parent | 22eb837b97541725ae9650e074c09bb6d7f8dd10 (diff) | |
news/2011-q3: Make a pass over it and finalize.
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| -rw-r--r-- | microkernel/mach/gnumach.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach.mdwn index d9ff6535..edd0cfdb 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach.mdwn @@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] -GNU Mach is the microkernel that the GNU/Hurd system is based on. +GNU Mach is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. It provides +an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to define +interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the services +a traditional operating system kernel provides. It is maintained by the Hurd developers for the GNU project and remains compatible with [[Mach]] 3.0. |