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AtheOS Hits 0.3.7

Posted by timothy on from the for-the-man-who-has-everything dept.

Jarito writes: "Seems Kurt has found time to release another version of AtheOS. Changes include a slew of bug/speed fixes for ABrowse, optimization of the TCP/IP stack, a new system for handling POSIX packages, mouse-wheel support, a regular expression searching class and many more. Stop on by www.atheos.cx and check it out." Here's the changelog since 0.3.6 -- AtheOS remains astoundingly slick-looking for a (mostly) one-man project, if you missed our interview with Kurt Skauen, it's worth reading if AtheOS interests you.

19 comments

  1. Not likely! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you think I'm about to click on any link from the .cx TLD, you're sadly mistaken, my friend.

  2. File system looks nice by johnjones · · Score: 2

    the file system looks nice I wonder what it would take to port this to linux or get it to use ext2 ?

    good work

    regards

    john jones

    1. Re:File system looks nice by Zwane · · Score: 1

      Port which way? AtheOS -> Linux ? or Linux -> AtheOS. Do note that the AtheOS FS is a 64bit journaling filesystem whilst ext2 is erm.. well ;)

      Regards

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      signal(SIGPHB, SIG_IGN);
    2. Re:File system looks nice by cmowire · · Score: 2

      Well, it would be kinda pointless to port it over to Linux, actually. Mostly because BeFS, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS all have similar functionality already.

      That, and a lot of the neato extra features are only useful for the AtheOS shell and would be pretty useless under Linux.

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      Gentoo Sucks
  3. Excuse me while I wet myself by gengee · · Score: 2

    This is an insanely cool project. Oh how I wish assembly didn't frighten me:P

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    - James
    1. Re:Excuse me while I wet myself by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 3, Informative

      Good news, its' not in assembly. The kernel is written in C and the high-level APIs are in C++. AtheOS applications are programmed in C++.

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      main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}
    2. Re:Excuse me while I wet myself by STSeer · · Score: 2, Interesting

      C++?

      what's the compiler and is the STL available? how about a debugger?

    3. Re:Excuse me while I wet myself by Vanders · · Score: 2, Informative

      The compiler is GCC. The C & C++ libs are Glibc. Sadly, there is no debugger yet, as they are complicated little buggers to write, and no one has needed one that badly yet.

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      Syllable : It's an Operating System
    4. Re:Excuse me while I wet myself by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 2

      The compiler is GCC, of course. I think the STL is available but I'm not sure. There's no debugger as far as I am aware, because I think there isn't enough stuff inside the kernel to support a GDB port. I could be wrong though.

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      main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}
    5. Re:Excuse me while I wet myself by STSeer · · Score: 1

      cool, it's even more fun without a debugger :)

  4. Kurt is not accepting patches to base system. by life+Acolyte · · Score: 1

    He said so on the mailing list a while ago.

    Why would he do that? So that he can re-license it someday, like Tuxracer?

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    Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix
    1. Re:Kurt is not accepting patches to base system. by Vanders · · Score: 1

      Nah, it's more like Kurt wants a consistent design and implementation, and taking a mob handed approach to the implementation isn't going to achieve that.

      Kurt has accepted some patches, for example the ISA-DMA was a third party patch, and the latest build contains wheel mouse support which is based upon another third party patch.

      It may also be that yes, Kurt does intend to relicencse AtheOS at some point in the future as he isn't a massive fan of the GPL zealots running around, but having said that he seems to be well aware that relicensing AtheOS now would garuntee a fork from the GPL licenced code. As we all know, forks are bed, m'kay?

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      Syllable : It's an Operating System
  5. KDE Support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Anyone here care to comment on the use of KDE with AtheOS? I heard it's ported, and some of those screenshots of the "AtheOS browser" certainly look like Konqueror...

    1. Re:KDE Support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nope, KDE nore Qt has been ported, KDE nor Qt will be ported, ABrowse is bassed on the Khtml rendering engine yes, but it's not using Qt.

      If we wanted to use Qt & KDE, we'd all be using Linux or BSD. Natch.

    2. Re:KDE Support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No X, no KDE. But this make AtheOS cool. No need for another (insert your favourite Unix here)/X11 system.

    3. Re:KDE Support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      hey, i never said i liked kde, just pointing out that it looked like it was running.

      posting from fvwm2... (still the best)