Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Aug 2007 11:38 UTC, submitted by distantvoices
BlueIllusionOS 0.08 has been released (get it from the download page). The author wrote to us: "It sports a GUI with window composing capability & support for translucent windows, TCP/IP Stack, ext2 FS and ISO 9660 FS, various applications, as well as a program to play mpg1 movies (mpgplay - a port of mpg2player). All the settings in this OS are done via xml files." The about page tells us a little more about the goals and kernel: "BlueIllusion is a micro kernel based operating system, which operates on the Intel x86 architecture. It uses some features like paging to some excess to get work done. Other things like TSS-based hardware task switching aren't used. It will - in the future - have a graphical user environment, which I intend to be analogous to the MacOS 9 GUI, with a menu bar that appears when moving the mouse to the upper border of the screen - as well as support for a right-click-popup menu under the mouse at needs."
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It's a dual core xeon (3.2 Ghz) with 2 gigs of RAM, with a radeon x850. Interestingly, I was able to hit enter and cause the console output to scroll after it stopped booting. When I switched video cards to a nvidia GF7900, though, I was unable to scroll the console output by hitting enter. It looked completely locked up.
dmesg in linux shows the cdrom drive ass a TSSTcorp TS-H192C cdrom drive.
I'm not sure if there's a way to turn on serial debugging, but I do have a null modem cable running to another box, so I can grab all the console output if it's possible to redirect it to a serial port.
I also tried in vmware workstation 6.0 but ran into a separate issue. The OS boots up, but the mouse is completely unusable. As I move the mouse around, the pointer goes wild in the virtual machine.
Adam
Edited 2007-08-07 12:16