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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th Jun 2006 22:26 UTC, submitted by Jakub Jermar

HelenOS 0.2.0 has been released. "This release fixes many bugs and adds new functionality both to the kernel and userspace. The kernel now supports graceful task cleanup and the userspace layer was extended with framebuffer and console services. We also ported BSD tetris to demonstrate userspace capabilities of HelenOS. This is the first release with official documentation.".

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I'm impressed

by nick8325 on Sun 11th Jun 2006 02:01 UTC

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2005-10-06

I'd never heard of this OS before. It supports SMP and quite a few architectures already. The kernel seems to be *really* well-written - some of the best code I've seen. Everything split up into architecture-dependent and generic code, with most code being generic.

If the developers carry on working on it (userspace, particularly), it could turn into something superb.

Edited 2006-06-11 02:14

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RE: I'm impressed

by ratatask on Sun 11th Jun 2006 08:14 in reply to "I'm impressed"

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2006-01-28

You havn't looked at the Plan 9 kernel - have you :-|

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RE[2]: I'm impressed

by nick8325 on Sun 11th Jun 2006 10:32 in reply to "RE: I'm impressed"

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I hadn't looked at Plan 9's kernel before you mentioned it. I had a look just now, but what do you mean?

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