Less GPL, Less Bloat
Joseph Mallett writes "We've now removed most (all?) of the GPL code.
Also, we've integrated the RTMach Lites code, for better
application-level compat with modern operating systems.
We've got a few individuals working on porting either
FreeBSD or OpenBSD device driver frameworks to xMach
so that our native drivers (as the Linux ones are gone) will
be wider and varying than the (extremely) limited Mach
drivers that we currently have. We're also removing all
code not pertinent to Mach4 (i.e. OSFMACH and Mach3)
as part of our new 'slogan'(?): Proactively Unbloated.
Eventually, non bloat will lead to lessening the amount
of code to do certain things, which would hopefully lead to
better optimisation. As always, we're looking for people to
help, and we'll soon have mailing lists and a CVS server,
and possibly a GNATS database."