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XGS Beta Version 0.5x Release Notes
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This is a _very_ beta version of XGS. It simply won't compile on a non-Unix
system w/o POSIX thread support, and it's only really been tested on Linux.
Use it at your own risk, and if you _do_ get it running on other systems,
please send me the necessary patches.

This code doesn't offer signifigant new functionality over 0.50; it's mainly
a developers release to test my multithreading of the core code. (For the
record, I _love_ the threading -- it makes things like sound so much easier
to code when they can truly run in their own thread.)

For Linux, you need at least the following:

Kernel 2.0.30
glibc 2.0.4 (aka libc 6.0)
LinuxThreads 0.6 (usually included with libc 6)
gcc 2.7.2.1 for libc 6
binutils 2.8.1.0.1 for libc 6
XFree86 3.3 for libc 6

There are no Linux distributions that meet these requirements yet. However I
managed to install the necessary packages on top of a RedHat 4.2 system w/o
too much difficulty, and I suspect that the next RedHat release (4.3 or
whatever) will meet these requirements.
