http://www.osnews.com/story/12839/Visopsys_0_6_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2010, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:50:12 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?67409 http://osnews.com/thread?67409 I still think this OS lacks a killer feature, but at least it's moving forward rather rapidly. Amazingly so for a 1-man show. This guy should probably be hired by someone Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ronald Vos) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67412 http://osnews.com/thread?67412 I don't think that any hobby activity need to have a "killer feature". This OS is never going to become commercial or used seriously, it's a hobby/research. It doesn't need to "wow" anyone. Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67414 http://osnews.com/thread?67414 "killer feature"? This guy is having fun learning. I agree with Eugenia completely. OS news is about all operating systems, even the hobby ones. This is very well done hobby OS. Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (voidlogic) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67415 http://osnews.com/thread?67415 Maybe true, but I mean gosh what large strides. Take a look:

http://www.visopsys.org/download/changelog.html

A new release by one man is incredible, and all happen to be somewhat relevent or productive in some way or another for somebody. Man, even his sub releases (5.8 for example) make great changes. Like you said, he probably should be hired by someone for something. Or maybe he'll get lucky and his OS will find a true place for everyone. I mean, maybe it won't, but look at all the other OS'es who are giving there shot at it. All pose something neat, and it may come in real handy one day. Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dswain) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67423 http://osnews.com/thread?67423 http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=515&sli... Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67425 http://osnews.com/thread?67425 Can somebody at FreeBSD contact him? Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Reader) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67426 http://osnews.com/thread?67426 Network support would rock. Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67428 http://osnews.com/thread?67428 Thanks for that! I have a whole new set of screenshots (though these are pretty fine) that I'll post up in the next day or two, plus I hope to submit a proper write-up about the new features on OSNews.

Thanks to everybody for all their support (particularly Thomas, Jonas, and Davide -- you know who you are).

I'm sure everyone knows writing an OS from scratch is a pretty daunting task and it's great to read all the encouraging comments (and criticisms too).

Cheers everyone, hope you like it.
Andy (visopsys guy). Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (andymc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67430 http://osnews.com/thread?67430 Hah! Of course. There are some foundations in 0.6 (DHCP, UDP, ICMP bits) but not enough hardware support and it's not ready to be featured yet, so it's disabled by default for now. Hopefully there'll be at least telnet and FTP clients in the next couple of releases, at least for proof-of-concept sake.

Don't get me started on networking RFCs. What a way to spend a weekend.

(Symantec pays me to work on Veritas Volume Manager during the week -- Linux paritioning and root disk encapsulation, that's me).

Andy Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (andymc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67434 http://osnews.com/thread?67434 Hi Andy,

First of all, congratulations, this is great work! I have a lot of respect for operating system developers, it really is a whole different ballgame than any other kind of programming.

I don't know if you've already considered this idea, but if you want to save time on getting networking code into Visopsys, you could always steal, err, I mean borrow some code from the BSDs. Very borrower friendly license and excellent time-tested code. You could get workable FTP and telnet very quickly. That's just an idea.

Anyway, keep up the great work! Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (the_trapper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67438 http://osnews.com/thread?67438 Thanks very much. Certainly there are plenty of good examples of (free) code to be borrowed out there, but then again the nature of the OS programmer is (sensibly or not) to want to code everything from scratch.

But then again, there's a balance to be struck between "I don't want to borrow any code" and "this would be really useful to users". There's a related project called "Partition Logic" (http://partitionlogic.org.uk) which is just a different configuration of Visopsys, meant to feature the Disk Mananger partitioning tool; people are clamouring for NTFS resizing support and in the end it probably makes sense to just port the Linux ntfsprogs code until I can get my head around NTFS. That porting attempt is underway at the moment.

Networking, on the other hand, I'm sure my initial attempt will be buggy and insecure but I at least want to give it a try!

Andy Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (andymc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67503 http://osnews.com/thread?67503 Nice job, it's looking very nice. Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nelson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67552 http://osnews.com/thread?67552 Plan 9 just gained Vesa support, making it usable on a
lot of other hardware/gfx cards.
Great seeing it stil beeing developed. Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67556 http://osnews.com/thread?67556 When I try to boot from qemu "qemu -cdrom visopsys-0.6.iso", a blue screen appear, and it hang in this stage. Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67587 http://osnews.com/thread?67587 I have been following siopsys for about 2.5 years and it just amazes me. I love seeing what this man can do. I dont care that it doesnt have all the features. It is just awsome with the fact that he actualy can and does do these things. I follow this stuff as a hobby. I dont think anyone expects visopsys to be the 5th major os (MS, Mac, Linux, and unix). However it is great that there are people out there who are still intereseted in os development. Thats just great. It has had a partion on my heard drive now for a year and a half. Though only a 500mb partition its still there. Then again i try to have a space for every os i can find.

Keep up the great work and hopefully one day all that knowlege and skill you have gained will come in use and land you a killer career. Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67601 http://osnews.com/thread?67601 Looks nice, especially for one man to code... Wow. I haven't tried it (yet), but surely looks nice to me. Keep it up,

-- jaboua Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jaboua) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67685 http://osnews.com/thread?67685 It's nice for OS Students in universities to play with hobby OSes like yours, Andy.. thanks. Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tanner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?67799 http://osnews.com/thread?67799 Well to tell the truth this 'hobby' OS can indeed become my best recovery suite. Just pop in the CD and take on the computer. Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments