Renraku OS: Initial Release
The Renraku OS team is proud to announce the first release, 0.1alpha.
Major strides have been made in the two weeks since the new codebase
was started, and we're very happy with where things are.
We now have:
- Initial compiler with support for vtables, a good chunk of the CIL instruction set, string object constants, etc.
- Initial memory manager (real memory manager is in progress).
- Basic object manager.
- The start of System.Array/String/Console.
- Keyboard driver and US English keymap.
- Basic shell that can execute applications.
- Basic HAL and interfaces for timer, keyboard, and network drivers.
- Initial PCI base class.
- A few simple applications:
- 'echo' - Echo terminal
- 'reverse' - Reverses the arguments passed to it
- 'halstatus' - Prints the status of loaded drivers
- 'pci' - Scans for PCI devices and dumps the vendor and device IDs
- 'shell' - Creates a subshell
We've also created an IRC channel, #renraku on Freenode where
the developers are generally available. If you want to give it a
spin, grab the kernel image and boot it with GRUB. If you run into any problems, drop
us a line on the channel.
For the curious, you can check out this gallery of screenshots of the various commands. And as always, the
codebase is on Github.
Give it a shot and let us know what you think.
Happy hacking,
- Cody Brocious
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