'm happy to announce that we have released version 0.0.1 of SharpOS, including our AOT compiler and a basic kernel with an interactive shell. This is a proof of concept release intended to gather awareness, support and participation from community members, so if you are interested in working on this project we encourage you to sign up for our mailing list. For those of you who don't know about SharpOS, it is a project to write an operating system purely in C#, which was actually spawned from the "Operating system in C#" thread on mono-devel-list. Although we don't have object instantiation or meta data embedding in our kernel yet, the release proves clearly that the concept is possible. Our next milestone focuses on supporting managed code in the kernel, as well as using that managed code to improve our current systems as much as possible.
Our wiki and project management suite is at http://sharpos.org/. Our file releases area at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=196652) contains tarballs and zips with source code, binaries, and disk images for testing. We've also got ISO images for trying SharpOS on real computers (that don't have floppy drives, that is), as well as the usual configurations for Bochs, VMWare, and Virtual PC. And have a wonderful new year everyone! PS: I've had a lot of trouble posting to the list because Postfix says the dates on the email are in the future?? -- fury long name: William Lahti handle :: fury freenode :: xfury blog :: http://xfurious.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
