Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Feb 2012 23:40 UTC, submitted by AmineKhaldi
Oh ReactOS. This project has been with us for a very long time now, and since day one, I never really knew what to think of it. They always seem to be running at least 300 miles behind the Win32 bandwagon, but what they've accomplished so far is insanely impressive nonetheless. This new release comes with quite a lot of new stuff.
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And I believe L4 doesn't really belong on a list of niche OS projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family
L4 is widely used; Open Kernel Labs claims deployment of one billion L4 kernels. ( http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/development/42934 deployed in more than one billion mobile handsets )
#Commercial_deployment
In November 2005, NICTA announced that Qualcomm was deploying NICTA's L4 version on their Mobile Station Modem chipsets. This led to the use of L4 in mobile phone handsets on sale from late 2006
#Commercial_deployment
In November 2005, NICTA announced that Qualcomm was deploying NICTA's L4 version on their Mobile Station Modem chipsets. This led to the use of L4 in mobile phone handsets on sale from late 2006
It seems to run radio stack and/or isolate it from the "user OS" - so for example many (most?) Android phones might be also running L4, by the virtue of using Qualcomm chipsets.
Edited 2012-02-08 15:21 UTC
RE: niche OS related news
by sourcerer on Thu 9th Feb 2012 18:44
in reply to "niche OS related news"
Member since:2012-02-09
Didn't you noticed "Nightly builds" link? Last version was build at 6 Feb 2012. Few days ago was added driver for Intel videocards. Also, Kolibri has tons of new ports.
RE[2]: niche OS related news
by fran on Fri 10th Feb 2012 18:37
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News
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 23:22 UTC
"Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:04 UTC
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:01 UTC
"In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 17:52 UTC
"The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 22:23 UTC
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 13:38 UTC
"The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week. Kodera was responsible for HTC's overall product strategy, which makes the departure especially notable on the heels of the global launch of the make-or-break One. It's not just Kodera. In the past three-odd months, HTC has lost a number of employees in rapid succession." I really hope HTC pulls it together.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 13:30 UTC, submitted by JRepin
"It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. This is a snapshot of Debian 'sid' at the time of the Debian 'wheezy' release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release." Important note: 75% of Debian packages are supported bu Debian GNU/Hurd. Impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 22:06 UTC
"The first killer app was VisiCalc. This early spreadsheet turned the Apple II from a hobbyist toy to a business computer. VisiCalc came with room for improvement, though. In addition, a new architecture and operating system, the Intel-based IBM PC and MS-DOS, also needed a spreadsheet to be taken seriously. That spreadsheet, released in early 1983, would be Lotus 1-2-3, and it would change the world. It became the PC's killer app, and the world would never be the same. On May 14, IBM quietly announced the end of the road for 1-2-3, along with Lotus Organizer and the Lotus SmartSuite office suite. Lotus 1-2-3's day is done." Impressive 30 year run.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:45 UTC
"There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate view it. That became clearer than ever today after Cook and two other Apple executives testified before Congress, explaining why they're holding most of their international income in Irish subsidiaries like Apple Operations International, which declare no tax residency anywhere in the world. AOI hasn't filed a tax return anywhere in the world for the last five years, yet it earned $30 billion in income from 2009 to 2012, according to a Senate report released yesterday." Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's just. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many more - these companies might not be breaking any laws, but it's obvious to anyone that what they are doing is scummy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 15:53 UTC
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"More News »
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I browsed a lot of niche OS sites lately scouring for news to submit.
Some of the reasoning below might be false. Reason some sites mainly update news through mailing lists and not on the site itself.
But here are my general impression.
Seems like the last of the golden OS hobby years ended in 2009.
Jnode
Last news post 01/29/2009
http://www.jnode.org/node/2879
Coyotos
Last news post 16 May 2008
http://www.coyotos.org/
DexOS
No front end news items.
Forum not much help
http://dex.7.forumer.com/
HelenOS
Some news end of Jan 2012 about a meeting.
http://www.helenos.org/
Hurd
Difficult to scour news events from this site.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
Inferno
Don't have a news section but a mailing list.
Don't know how active that is.
http://www.vitanuova.com/news/newsgroup.html
Kolibri OS
Last release in 2009
http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.l4hq.org/
Has current news.
"The L4 community had some news last month.
NICTA and Open Kernel Labs have announced a joint public release of the formally-verified seL4 microkernel. The release, for non-commercial and evaluation use, contains seL4 kernel binaries for ARM and x86, documentation, user-level example code, x86 Linux on top of seL4, and the formal specification of the kernel for the ARM platform."
MenuetOS
Site not very news friendly.
Most .x1 "Bugfixes and improvements"
Mailing list would probably be best here to scour for news.
http://www.menuetos.net/
MonaOS
Last news not to long ago. Aug 5
http://www.monaos.org/
Plan9
Mailing list has news.
Feb saw some news release me thinks.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
Puredarwin
Not quite sure. The news does not list dates.
The attachement to the last news item is dated to 2009 though.
http://www.puredarwin.org/developers/qemu
StormOS
Some news Oct 2011 about a collaboration with Debian.
http://www.stormos.org/
Capros
Not easy to glance news from the site.
http://www.capros.org/
SkyOS
Last news seem to be 2008
Breadbox
Last news 2009
http://www.breadbox.com/news.asp
Visopsys
Has a news section and has current news events.
http://visopsys.org/about/news.php
Unununium
Some news but not very meaty.
http://unununium.org/
Maybe these project has current developments.
It is just not that easy to find.
And also there is other projects not listed here.
Edited 2012-02-08 14:46 UTC