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## <a name="About"> About </a>

OSKit Mach began as a branch of the [[GnuMach]] 1.2 kernel, but since the release of GNU Mach 1.3, OSKit Mach has been merged as the new [[GnuMach]] 2.x mainline. There are some other interesting notes about the [[MachHistory]] including other operating systems who use Mach in thier kernels.

GNU Mach 2.0 makes use of the drivers provided by [the OSKit](http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/) from [the Flux Research Group](http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/). The OSKit provides a neat driver base where both [[FreeBSD]] and Linux (2.2.12) drivers are made available to [Mach](http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/mach.html) and thus the Hurd.

## <a name="Research"> Research </a>

<http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/maeda92networking.html> -- An article by Chris Maeda and Brian N. Bershad discussing microkernel optimizations of an UDP driver.

## <a name="Status"> Status </a>

Here is a [[OskitMachStatusList]] on what is required before a full conversion of the project to using oskit. Status of the new console/term is on that page.

There's also an effort at an [Oskit Mach Alpha Port](http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnumach-alpha/).

fatfs 0.4 was [released](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-October/010576.html) Oct 6, 2002.

## <a name="Building"> Building </a>

First you need to get the latest OSKit and the oskit-mach stuff. Take a look at the following [tutorial](http://www.etherhogz.org/doc/oskit-mach.html) to get started. Or the locally kept brief version, [[BuildingOskitMach]].

## <a name="Debugging"> Debugging </a>

Igor Khavkine's, , excellent help to [remote debug oskit-mach over a serial line](http://www.etherhogz.org/doc/oskit-boot.txt), or the local [[RemoteDebugOskitMach]].

You can also, to some extent, run a [Neighbor Hurd](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/howto/subhurd.html) (sub-hurd) to debug or replicate problems.

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