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Microsoft Singularity Now "Open" Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-pulls-me-in dept.

Alex_Ionescu writes "Microsoft's Singularity operating system (covered previously by Slashdot) is now open to the public for download, under a typical Microsoft academic, non-commercial license. Inside is a fully compilable and bootable version of what could be the basis for the future of Windows, or maybe simply an experiment to demonstrate .NET's capabilities. Singularity, if you'll recall, has gained wide interest from researchers and users alike, by claiming to be a fully managed code kernel (with managed code drivers and applications as well), something that would finally revolutionize the operating system research arena. The project is available on CodePlex."

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  1. Ooh... by jrothwell97 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    60mB zipped. That is relatively small.

    The question is whether I can compile it using make or Xcode. Doubt it.

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  2. yes but... by da5idnetlimit.com · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does it compile under Linux ?
    And can I run it under VMWare Server just after that ? /me doesn't have windows @home since even the GF adopted Ubuntu...
    And I'm too lazy to launch VMWare to run 2K3 to compile the stuff.

    (also :"Its 60MB compressed and compiles in 40 seconds" : Do we have the same understanding of the time needed to compile a 60Mb+ file / You are using Distcc on a Top500 cluster / I really should upgrade my personnal server)

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