Visopsys is an alternative OS for PC-compatibles. Version 0.56 is a maintenance and bugfix release, with important fixes to eliminate potential boot problems, faulty EXT2/3 mounts, and problems with the detection of secondary hard disks. Important multitasker improvements related to process initialization have also been back-ported from the 0.6 development branch. Download page and changelog.
Looks like an interesting project
I think i will download it and play with it a bit… maybe check out the source to.
No hardware support means download it once ; play around with it then delete it.
For all you operating system developers out there. YOU NEED HARDWARE SUPPORT ! Don’t reinvent the wheel. Use X windows !
If this OS could be an alternative to partition magic then it could fill a real need , more as a application though or emergency disk. Still usefull. Ghost alternative would be cool.
And I was just saying how ridiculous the OS names have gotten the other day.
Welcome aboard Visopys!
Well, someone writes a whole operating system from scratch, and some people just pile on with the negative comments. On a site devoted partly to alternative operating systems, no less.
But, I usually assume it’s mostly Linux zealots. To those people, I would say “thank goodness Linus never listened to people like you, or Linux might never have happened”.
How will the “next Linux” ever appear unless someone “reinvents the wheel”? Or even just the new ideas alternative OSes can bring to the table?
The idea behind the partitioner is a fantastic one to say the least, as having something as clean as Partiton Magic around that is easily accessible is always a positive. I wonder though how the shell/scripting language is. Also, I wonder about some other programming things like having a C/C++ compiler, or how feasible it would be to port something like TCL or Python to it for some program development.
GUI LOOKS LIKE CRAP
I miss the coolness factor AltOSes like Menuet, Plan 9 and Unununium have.
But still, impressive work, and there is some use potentially as a sort of ‘rescue’ tool perhaps thanks to it’s partition manager + liveCD support.
“I miss the coolness factor AltOSes like Menuet, Plan 9 and Unununium have.”
Have to agree there, in particular with Unununium. An OS written almost entirely in Python, very cool!
Honest opinions now are being deleted.
Just post messages of admiration . Those go over big.
What posts/opinions have been deleted? I think you’re mistaken, as the threshold for anonymous users is set to -1. In turn, that wouldn’t allow you to see a few of the posts which get low ratings from users. Nothing is deleted, just out of sight, unless you have an account on OSNews which will let you change it.
I think that’s what you mean, at least. Just trying to clarify. In fact because of it, virtually none of the posts, or at least much less, moderation is done of the site, as it can be done by users now.
You moderate a topic down and then tell us you didn’t delete it knowing well that most people are not going to bother with default settings.
Fair point, but I don’t have the power to change that as I’m not an administrator. It’s not technically moderating down people, it’s simply a rating system. I choose to view all of the posts. To see them all, you can make a free account and change it. I’m simply just trying to tell you how the system works now; It doesn’t reflect whether I vote up or down comments (I normally don’t bother.)
If you want to see comments below -1, you simply use the drop-down combo box to change your threshold.
Failing that, you can create an account and set your threshold to -5.
Failing that too, you might want to change the way you comment on stories.
And yes, the default is -1 so new readers don’t have to read the crap that some people are posting. This was a much needed feature.
Lastly, your comment was moderated down to -4 by READERS, not by the admins of this site. Which means, that the READERS themselves didn’t approve of your message OR the way it was WRITTEN.
So, fix your attitude, that is my ultimate advise to you. Visopsys is a hobby OS, it is NOT going to be, EVER, an OS for the mass of the people. It’s a test, an experiement by a single developer. Like all experiements, the “point” itself is what matters, not the cleaning up of the looks. The “point” can be a lot of things, from just “killing some time”, to “trying to make the fastest possible algorithm to count something, to “make a fast bootable OS, or to “make the most secure OS”. But in hobby OSes, almost NEVER the point is “make a commercially usable, good looking OS”. And so that’s why your comment was rated as trash by the readers. Because you don’t get it.
I think this is really cool. Small open projects like this are where the big guys get some ideas and some little guys get their talents recognized. Good job guys.
many would to a certain extent consider me a linux zealot….. yet.. i am very open to this…. linux zealots are not to be confused with linux idiots….. there is a big difference…. and if you’re not paying attention…. i made the first post
Monolithic Kernels are so 1990s…
Altough the features look promising…
…has a sort of OS/2-ish feel to it. Good timing seeing how IBM announced its demise.
I didn’t read through his entire site, but I wonder what sort of GUI modifications he is planning. Seemed sort of mysterious about it.
Anyway, nice little OS. Any different flavor of OS is a good flavor in my book. Nice to see people are still out there hacking away on their own, personal, projects despite the fact that most people would simply “poo-poo” their efforts as a waste of time.
Nice OS, only problem is i dont hear of it to often. Is there a live ISO? With what Visopsys dose a live ISO would be one of the best ideas to get it spread further. Sort of like a tool CD, I use slackware that way and have a mem tester on a bootable CD too, I would add Visopsys.
P.S.: Dont complain about your post geting moderated down, just think, are you contributing something constructive? If not youre going to stay at Score: 0 at best.
it is bootable
just found the info
I tried booting it with qemu – and just got a blue screen.
I guess it doesn’t support the hardware which qemu emulates, which is unfortunate. I like experimenting with other distributions of Linux, and some of the *BSDs but only with Qemu – I don’t have a spare machine to reboot and play with all day, sadly.
post a review when they release a 1.0 or higher and if i like it maybe i will install it and give it a spin…
“I tried booting it with qemu – and just got a blue screen.”
Judging by the screenshots, you’re supposed to get a blue screen:
http://visopsys.org/img/screenshots/screenshot3.jpg
Has anyone had any experience with it yet, other than the qemu experiment? I would love to try the livecd myself, but my cd-writer doesn’t happen to be working right now, so any experiences would be nice to hear, good or bad I suppose.
oh and for people knocking coz of no hardware detection, make the damn drivers yourself… what you mean you can’t, so why are you moaning that there are no hardware drivers? you think that linux had all drivers from ver 1.0 or windows did when that first started?
some people
good work …
I am a long time follower of the visopsys project. I’m watching it’s progress since it’s first coming ups (there’s a version dated in 2001 and that one I’ve tested too).
Being an os developer too (I’m the leader of the blueillusionOS project – oh and the main developer), I know how much work and dedication are put into this project.
If for sure has its small edges and some hassles to be ironed out, but one can use it for experimenting around. 🙂 Besides, I think, that the GUI of this OS is simple but not stupid. You can use it and navigate around it with *know paradigms*. One knows to use the title bar to drag around a window. One knows to press the x button in the top right corner to get rid of a window. etc. It’s no miracle to use that OS.
I for one just think, the author should reconsider f. ex. the behaviour of the visopsys menues. They appear inside a window. They are treated as controls inside the window despite they should be popups of their own – kinda containers which *own* a window, so they can overlap everything, as they are just popping up *on Top* Second, as soon as a menue loses focus – it should disappear. Not upon lose focus inside its parent window. Just upon lose focus.
apart from this: visopsys plays skillfully with device block caching. This beast speeds data access up to quite a measure.
Visopsys still misses line editing in the shell and it still has no text editor of its own. Maybe I should port the BlueIllusionOS text editor to visopsys as a contribution? *gg*
Oh – and I like blue. 🙂
Just My 2 cent.
BTW: @certain ppl:PlS refrain from posting crap and afterwards whining about being rated down. Post constructive stuff. That’s more enjoyable for us all. Being polite and respectful has nothing to do with posting “admiring stuff”.