ScorchOS 0.1 Released
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 4:54 am
After an 18 month period of inactivity, this hobby kernel has now seen a new release thanks to renewed interest!
New features since the 0.0.7 release:
* Brand new shell interface with multi-user support
* Fully implemented keyboard driver
* Support for cross-compilers and makefiles within the source code
* A small mountain of bugs have now been squashed
* Bochs is now supported
* Support for ANSI C strings
This may not sound too exciting, but ScorchOS is now back in active development and the production of a much more stable base will give us much more flexibility for 0.2. (Features are yet to be finalized but virtual memory functions, disk I/O and process management are being considered).
If you want to give the package a try then you can either download the official package containing source code, build scripts, floppy image and documentation or the binary-only package which provides Windows users with a self-contained emulator and Linux users with test scripts so you can get trying this release straight away!
Though compared to a lot of kernel projects this will seem pretty underdeveloped, the aim of this release was to finally replace the last release (which was dogged with problems) with a much more stable base. Future releases should hopefully provide far more functionality worth shouting about
If you are interested in joining the project then either take a look at our mailing list or via this forum.
New features since the 0.0.7 release:
* Brand new shell interface with multi-user support
* Fully implemented keyboard driver
* Support for cross-compilers and makefiles within the source code
* A small mountain of bugs have now been squashed
* Bochs is now supported
* Support for ANSI C strings
This may not sound too exciting, but ScorchOS is now back in active development and the production of a much more stable base will give us much more flexibility for 0.2. (Features are yet to be finalized but virtual memory functions, disk I/O and process management are being considered).
If you want to give the package a try then you can either download the official package containing source code, build scripts, floppy image and documentation or the binary-only package which provides Windows users with a self-contained emulator and Linux users with test scripts so you can get trying this release straight away!
Though compared to a lot of kernel projects this will seem pretty underdeveloped, the aim of this release was to finally replace the last release (which was dogged with problems) with a much more stable base. Future releases should hopefully provide far more functionality worth shouting about
If you are interested in joining the project then either take a look at our mailing list or via this forum.