AtheOS Hits 0.3.7

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.

Not likely!

[Anonymous Coward]

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

File system looks nice

[johnjones]

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

Re:File system looks nice

[Zwane]

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

Re:File system looks nice

[cmowire]

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.

Excuse me while I wet myself

[gengee]

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

Re:Excuse me while I wet myself

[Spy Hunter]

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++.

Re:Excuse me while I wet myself

[STSeer]

C++?

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

Re:Excuse me while I wet myself

[Vanders]

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.

Re:Excuse me while I wet myself

[Spy Hunter]

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.

Re:Excuse me while I wet myself

[STSeer]

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

Kurt is not accepting patches to base system.

[life Acolyte]

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?

Re:Kurt is not accepting patches to base system.

[Vanders]

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?