OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Aug 2008 18:31 UTC, submitted by Hagar

The JNode team has released the latest version of their operating system written in Java (it does have a small assembler nano kernel). "This release features the integration of the OpenJDK implementation of Swing and AWT, and significant improvements to the overall JNode GUI including improved painting and font rendering, generic VESA support and graphical console. The release also includes a new command argument framework for the shell, reworked shell commands, a configure tool for the JNode build environment, Samba file system with read/write support and many stability and bug fixes across the whole system." They have screenshots, a changelog, and (surprise!) a download page.

4 8 Comment(s)

http://osne.ws/fk8

Permalink for comment 326258
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.

RE[2]: Application support?

by YEPHENAS on Fri 8th Aug 2008 19:44 UTC in reply to "RE: Application support?"

Member since:
2008-07-14

I can almost guarantee that it won't. It had major problems running reliably for me even with almost nothing open running in VMware for the last release. You'll notice they don't showcase Eclipse or any fancy graphical apps in these screenshots. It's still rough Alpha quality.

Eclipse is not a Swing app as NetBeans is. And I didn't really expect NetBeans to run yet. But as soon as JEdit will work I'll play around with JNode.

My guess is that the SharpOS guys will get a usable OS faster then JNode, which is fine with me.

They don't seem to have GUI support so far.

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 1