Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Jan 2008 21:50 UTC, submitted by William Lahti
SharpOS 0.0.1 has been released. "The SharpOS project is aimed at writing an operating system in 100% C#. This originally proved to be a problem of nearly philosophical proportions because C# is a managed language, and by nature isn't designed for such low-level uses as developing an operating system kernel. Please note that although our goal is to create an operating system in C#, the infrastructure we have created allows kernels to be written in any language that targets the Common Intermediate Language bytecodes and exposes pointers and unsafe code."
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Except that Singularity and SharpOS are not that similar. The only thing they have in common are the CLR and C# except Singularity is written in Singh# which is C# with extensions that make writing OS's in C# possible.
The architecture is different. The three things that stand out are:
- Software Isolated Processes (SIP)
- Contract based Channels
- Manifest Based programs
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Thank you for your interest! Yes, Singularity is similar to SharpOS, but unfortunately Singularity is not open source (or shared source for that matter), and it also makes use of a runtime written in a non-CLR language. They also created a special version of C# for the project. We are free software, and we strive to use tools/languages that are already mature and freely available.