Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Jan 2008 21:50 UTC, submitted by William Lahti
.NET (dotGNU too) SharpOS 0.0.1 has been released. "The SharpOS project is aimed at writing an operating system in 100% C#. This originally proved to be a problem of nearly philosophical proportions because C# is a managed language, and by nature isn't designed for such low-level uses as developing an operating system kernel. Please note that although our goal is to create an operating system in C#, the infrastructure we have created allows kernels to be written in any language that targets the Common Intermediate Language bytecodes and exposes pointers and unsafe code."
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RE[2]: Very cool!
by Almafeta on Wed 2nd Jan 2008 06:00 UTC in reply to "RE: Very cool!"
Almafeta
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2007-02-22

We are free software


Erm... according to your wiki, you use the GPL. Unless that page was false, that makes SharpOS open source software, not free software.

The distinction is important, and you're apt to get ganked here on OSnews for less ^^;

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