Thursday, January 3, 2008

SharpOS Release

We've gone and finished our proof of concept release! And we posted the news on OSnews. The release downloads are on Sourceforge.net.

It's actually been a couple days since the release hit the Web and we've got some impressing stats already. Our sourceforge download stats are around 450 downloads in the first two days, which we're excited about. A number of cool people have come to visit us in IRC as well, and maybe some of them will want to help us out with our coming milestones over this new year. So far (except for in IRC), we've got only a few comments, but the news is quickly spreading to other websites. To top it off, I managed to not mess up the release too badly (something that is difficult not to do for first releases).

So, if you haven't already, go and get SharpOS from our downloads area and try it out!

2 comments:

Z said...

Hi,

Good work! I played a bit with it in VMWare and looked at the code. Very interesting. Could you please write some article about how do you testing and debugging different parts ? Is there any way how to debug for example shell/commands in some similar environment ? Do you plan for some stub like implementation of hardware so you could run it inside the VS debugger ? Thanks!
Where I could read about your plan for kernel/processes isolation ?

Lot of work ahead, if you are really heading towards general OS. Drivers, threading, security, GC, process isolation, reflection .... those are really big pieces. I will keep watching you, good luck :-)

Andrew Murphy said...

This is very interesting project.

How can I get involved?