I am pleased to announce version 1.0 of the GNU distribution of the Mach kernel. It may be found in the file (about 2.54 MB compressed) ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gnumach-1.0.tar.gz. This distribution was prepared in order to install some bug fixes and minor improvements (not worth noting here) to the Utah microkernel, and to make the package conform to the GNU coding standards, at least minimally, as regards configuration. This was based upon the UK22 distribution, with some modifications made at Utah as well. This kernel will be in the forthcoming complete binary distribution of GNU. The release is being made now, in the hopes that any serious problems we didn't notice might be found in advance of that distribution. Volunteers who are interested in compiling this release should do so, and please report any problems asap. All the non-kernel pieces of the Utah distribution are not present in this distribution, except for the MiG interface generator which is still supplied. These other pieces were never used for GNU, and are not really part of the kernel at all. We may separate MiG into a separate distribution for convenience at some later date. This distribution is only for i386, i486, i586 (pentium), and i686 (sexium [pentium pro]) processors on PC-AT compatible machines. Volunteers interested in ports to other architectures are eagerly sought. Most ethernet cards and disk controllers are supported by this kernel; ones for which Linux drivers exist can be ported easily. Non-network devices for which BSD drivers exist can be ported with a little effort, but not much. Bug reports relating to this distribution should be sent to bug-hurd@prep.ai.mit.edu. Requests for assistance should be made on help-hurd@prep.ai.mit.edu. The md5sum checksum for gnumach-1.0.tar.gz is: 62ac22cbe695a058243673427a264745 gnumach-1.0.tar.gz