VMWare Workstation 5.0 Beta Review
Flexbeta has got a review of VMWare Workstation 5.0. This new beta includes many nice features such as the ability to capture movies, and support for 64Bit hardware.
OS News Archive
OpenVMS HP – Intel Developer Forum – Report from the Front Lines
I just returned from spending three days with the OpenVMS stream of the HP - Intel Developer Forum in Mahwah, New Jersey. The over-subscribed OpenVMS stream was extremely successful, and provided an advanced view of what OpenVMS users can expect from the soon-to-be generally released OpenVMS for HP Integrity Servers. Read article...
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Introducing McOS Re 0.4.2f
The next version of McOS Re is now avaiable. McOS Re 0.4.2f has been released in two StuffIt archives: "Boot" (for users) and "Build" (for devs). The project's website is now featuring FAQ and Progress pages. Please note that this project is still not at "pactical use" stage, it's more at "demo" stage.
FreeVMS 0.1.0 Released
FreeVMS is an OpenVMS-like operating system which can run on several architectures like i386, PPC, Alpha, and many others. CONFIG_VMS can now execute on ODS-2. GRUB with ODS-2 support was added, and diskimage builder was updated accordingly. The kernel can also be booted from ODS-2. Partition support for both ODS-2 and Ext2 was improved. Directory creation functionality for ODS-2 was implemented. In CONFIG_VMS, a partition related bug with RMS Ext2 read and write was fixed. A problem in which Init set 000000.dir fat ffbyte to length when it should be 0 was fixed.
Emulating legacy operating systems on Linux
From CP/M to OpenVMS, one of the best things to do with a Linux box is to run programs for other operating systems on it. It can simplify your life considerably. Emulations of a wide variety of operating systems are available for Linux. More than mere academic exercises, these "hosted OSes" are practical investments for many server rooms. Also see Cameron Laird’s notes on emulators.
hOp, a Haskell OS
SVISTA Virtual Machine Released
Serenity Systems International (SSI) has announced the release of their Serenity Virtual Station, SVISTA, family of virtual machine products . This is the latest entry into the hot field of virtual machine software which allows users to run multiple operating systems on their PC. A field dominated by VMWare and Microsoft's Virtual PC.
SWING starts working under JNode
The JNode project just reached a very important mileston. The SWING GUI starts to work. This is a very important milestone for the first almost pure java operating system.
Emulator for the MIT CADR Lisp Machine
Brad Parker has announced a working emulator for the MIT CADR Lisp Machine. The CADR used a microcode which was designed to run an early version of MacLisp. Many things are working, including ZMacs, its version of Emacs.
CrayCore version 0.3 released
CrayCore is a CRAY YMP-EL Emulator. Currently, CrayCore executes instructions one at a time, through a command line interface. Future plans are to slowly add features until CrayCore is fully able to run Unicos. CrayCore version .3 has been released, in two packages, a source.zip, and a win32 binary. New features include light memory support, vector support, and many more opcodes. Be sure to check OpcodesTwo.txt, included with both packages for status on which instructions are implemented, and how to use them.
Introducing BlueIllusion OS
The author of the hobby OS Blueillusion writes:
Xen 2.0 Released
The Xen team announced the release of Xen 2.0, the open-source Virtual Machine Monitor.
Quick How-To: Booting FreeVMS under Bochs
We assume Bochs is already installed. You can download an bootable Bochs disk image from here. Then uncompress it with "tar -jxvf disk1.tar.bz2" and modify Bochs' configuration (make the cd bootable) ~/.bochsrc: boot: disk ata0-master: type=disk, mode=flat, translation=auto, path="/freevms/freevms.dsk", cylinders=130, heads=16, spt=63, biosdetect=auto, model="Generic 1234". It should show you this boot prompt. More FreeVMS info here.
OpenVMS Survives and Thrives
ComputerWorld has an article about OpenVMS which maintains a substantial user base in large organizations, and there's promise of new interest as it moves to 64-bit Itanium.
Mona OS ver.0.2.0RC1 released
Mona OS is a Japanese OS in C++ (screenshot). At a present stage, although it still is not at a practical use stage, it is continuing to evolving fast.
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Open Croquet Releases Files for Download
The Open Croquet project released its public developer's release today. OpenCroquet is a promising framework based on Squeak.
McOS Re 0.4.1 Released
The first bootable release of McOS Re 0.4.1 is available. McOS Re is a project dedicated to the re-creation of the Traditional Mac OS. The first goal is to be source- and binary-compatible with native PowerPC code for Mac OS.