Submitted by Version 0.62 of Visopsys was released today, including Qemu support, initial USB support, and some little games and bits of flair, in addition to the usual tweaks and bug fixes. Meanwhile, the offshoot project, “Partition Logic” continues to gain converts in the market for free partitioning tools. Detailed change log and downloads.
Visopsys 0.62 Released
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This OS is just amazing for being a hobbyist project. Keep up the good work it’s really looking good.
agreed. i hope it develops of following like skyos and syllable did
It is good…c’mon networking
Looks kinda interesting. I hope they go the way of SkyOS and Syllable.
The partition tool looks cool.
yes, impressed with what I’ve seen of this, for a single coder this is really an achievement. also, although I’ve only skimmed through the API, it looks extremely well laid out, with extensive functionality (in the areas it yet covers) and a VERY clear naming convention, something one doesn’t see very often. will definately try this out. then again I’m a sucker for stuff like this, keep it coming!
this one is looking better and better.
Needs acceleration or it will die off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectFB
OS world needs an alternative to X windows.
Driver binaries must be included especially for unsupported computers. A graphic library that can work with XP drivers ! Wow.
Linux kind of sucks because of this.
I do not think so, at least not at this phase.
X11 would be much faster with smart approach demonstrated in this project (direct rendering to window buffer in memory) rather than trying to acomodate HW acceleration and then fallback in 99% cases into slow software emulation. (See E17…)
500Mhz+ CPUs are enough to drive full screen 2D rendering operations.
OTOH, I agree that XP graphics drivers support in some open OS would be nice
Given the direction this OS is going, he might consider adopting the SNAP drivers.
“Needs acceleration or it will die off.”
You realize this is a one man hobby project and not an OS that aims to aqcuire market dominance, right?
Scitech drivers ! pretty cool.
An interesting little OS. Maybe with the exposure it gets here on OSnews, somebody will actually write the nice accelerated graphics drivers talked about. I don’t think SNAP drivers would be a particularly good idea, though, as they are not free in any sense, either as in beer or as in freedom.
Runs pretty slick under vmware.Visopsys even managed to get a proper dchp lease.I wish it had a browser like links.