Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Mar 2008 21:30 UTC, submitted by ohxten
"Whitix is a 32-bit operating system for the Intel and AMD range of processors, licensed under the GNU GPL. It features a C compiler (tcc), Python, assembler (nasm), text editor, shell and filesystem formatter. See the Introduction to Whitix for more information." Version 0.03 was released a month ago. My, aren't we sharp today.
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Member since:2005-06-30
Actually, when I started the operating system (it was about two or three years ago, but I took about a year's break in that time), 32-bit single core processors were very common. However, a x86-64 port and SMP support is definitely in the works.
I'm currently adding a "Our vision" page. It's a good suggestion actually, so hopefully I can clarify things for you.
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2006-03-22
Besides future goals of having a GUI for your OS...I'm still very unclear what the other goals of the project are. I've looked around on the site/wiki and have found very little info on what the real purpose and goals of the project are. Not to hate or anything, I'm still very interested... I do have one question though, that may sound like some other comments on here, but I don't intend it to: Why start a new OS based around 32-bit? It seems pretty obvious the future is in 64-bit, multicore processors... so why not create a new OS for the future rather than trying to support 486 processors that maybe 12 people on the whole planet still use?
Otherwise good luck! Don't listen to all the "why bother" guys. One of the key problems with the Windows world is that it's a monoculture...and so a monoculture of only Linux would be almost just as bad
BTW...really glad to see your not using the old legacy Unix file system hierarchy, it's one of my biggest peeves with the current Linux community with the exception of Gobo (simply going on the blog post about /System/Devices if I'm wrong).
Edited 2008-03-29 05:48 UTC