MOL future plans

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>Better yet, any comments on the future of MOL?

Well, I have lots of ideas but not quite as much time as
I would like. Some things I have been working on lately:

- A Darwin port. I have ported the bulk of the code to Darwin, 
although the kernel module part is not quite finished yet. 

- Merging MOL with a PowerPC emulator on i386. I think it ought 
to be possible to achieve reasonable speed on a fast
computer. The bulk of the code is now little-endian 
compatible, but of course the emualtor itself is still 
missing :-).

- The Makefile system has been completely reworked. MOL now 
uses automake/autoconfig as all sane programs seem to do nowdays.

At the moment, I'll probably concentrate upon the following 
issues:

- Boot disk selection
- Support of removable media (this is simple, but I just haven't 
got around to do it).
- Finishing the Darwin port.
- A GUI to /etc/molrc. I'll probably use KDE for this but 
I haven't completely decided yet.

A few other things I plan to address eventually:

- Improved X driver (I have to look into the API, but possibly 
one can utilize hardware overlays
to speed up things).

- Support for booting OS X inside MOL.

- True USB support. 


I'm open for suggestions though. What is the most 
pressing issue?

/Samuel