OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/17617/Visopsys_0_67_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:58:28 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Cool! http://osnews.com/thread?226980 http://osnews.com/thread?226980 Now if it only had 3D video support for ATI and Nvidia cards! The only thing left would be a good office suite and a browser. It's nice to see a one-man development team making so much progress. Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ferrels) Comments Excelent work http://osnews.com/thread?226990 http://osnews.com/thread?226990 I tried this out earlier in the month and I have to say it's a fantastic piece of kit given that it's a one man development team

I also recommend the disk manager as an alternative to Partition Magic (plus it's free - can't say fairer than that!)

Good stuff!Edited 2007-04-03 18:09 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments Got it working http://osnews.com/thread?226994 http://osnews.com/thread?226994 This time round, the system works fine in VMWare. It's very light and responsive, plus it's got snake! Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SReilly) Comments RE: Cool! http://osnews.com/thread?227000 http://osnews.com/thread?227000 The only thing left would be a good office suite and a browser.

And the only thing keeping me from being a millionaire is approximately $999,999 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments PartitionMagic it ain't... http://osnews.com/thread?227006 http://osnews.com/thread?227006 Don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but if you think this is any sort of alternative to PartitionMagic, then you are very much mistaken....

Partition logic has the following limitations:

* No hardware support for SCSI hard disks
* Does not work with some SATA hard disks
* Supports only DOS/Windows-style MBR partition tables (used on nearly all IBM PC-compatibles). No support for Sun or BSD disk labels, or EFI/GPT tables used on Itanium and Intel Mac platforms.
* Cannot format partitions as NTFS or EXT3. Currently supports FAT (12/16/32), EXT2, and Linux swap.
* Cannot resize FAT or EXT filesystems. Currently supports NTFS (Windows XP) and Linux swap.
* No hardware support for serial mice
* No hardware support for USB keyboards and mice. Currently supports only PS/2 keyboards and mice
* No hardware support for PCMCIA

These limitations are intended to be fixed in future releases.

Big shout to the author - I am sure it will get there, given time.


nick Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nick_h) Comments I'm sure it's a neat OS, but... http://osnews.com/thread?227011 http://osnews.com/thread?227011 http://visopsys.org/img/screenshots/screenshot5.jpg

I'm hardly a UI elitist or an eye-candy aficionado, but that has got to be the ugliest interface I've ever seen. It's so ugly I'd be too distracted by it to actually use the OS. Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shykid) Comments RE: I'm sure it's a neat OS, but... http://osnews.com/thread?227035 http://osnews.com/thread?227035 Hey, haven't you ever heard the old slogan "go ugly early"? Oops, that's only useful when I'm at the pub! But it might also apply to GUIs as well. Give it a chance! Even ugly girls, errr I mean GUIs need lovin'

:-) Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ferrels) Comments Short comings it may have http://osnews.com/thread?227046 http://osnews.com/thread?227046 Short comings it may have, but I'd kill to have accomplished what he has.

Besides - I think it's a little unfair to be as critical with an OS of this production size compared to the larger commercial outfits of SkyOS or Zeta Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments RE: Short comings it may have http://osnews.com/thread?227099 http://osnews.com/thread?227099 Yeah, this is just a personal project type thing.

Its pretty good for a one man show, but he should be careful not to attract a large community; he would quickly be consumed with requests and problem reports otherwise.Edited 2007-04-03 22:45 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Xaero_Vincent) Comments RE[2]: Short comings it may have http://osnews.com/thread?227104 http://osnews.com/thread?227104 Hi all, thanks very much for your comments. I normally try not to get involved in the discussions (though I always read all the comments, natch!) but:
Its pretty good for a one man show, but he should be careful not to attract a large community; he would quickly be consumed with requests and problem reports otherwise.

Partition Logic (just Visopsys with a few modified config files) gets downloaded on the order of 20K times per week. Trust me, when there's a bug, I sure know about it ;) Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (andymc) Comments Networking http://osnews.com/thread?227110 http://osnews.com/thread?227110 Networking would be great. Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments