The JNode Project has released version 0.2.2 of their OS. This release offers improvements in the classpath runtime library and numberous GUI improvements; the changelog details the rest of the improvements in this release of JNode.
What a great effort this is! Here is a real alternative operating system which tries to do something different for a change. Like Unununium, it plans to make a directed platform with specific technologies that are only an add-on tool on others. The problems and solutions that these people encounter and present will surely benefit GNU Classpath and the OS/FS communities.
Yes, when it eventually gets a decent GUI, some services (like networking) and some core applications, Jnode will be a truely modern, modular desktop OS. Also, being written in a very high level language means that it should be incredibly easy to maintain. The big problem seems to be writing the low level stuff; as they’re using java, some parts of this will be a nightmare. Because of this it will probably take a few years, if not a decade to reach a useful stage for end users! Anyway, good luck Jnode devs; development can only get easier.
This is a really interesting concept. And as it can run existing Java apps then it has the distinct advantage of starting off life with a large software library.
My best wishes to the developers. This is what we need more of – innovation and creativity.
What a great effort this is! Here is a real alternative operating system which tries to do something different for a change. Like Unununium, it plans to make a directed platform with specific technologies that are only an add-on tool on others. The problems and solutions that these people encounter and present will surely benefit GNU Classpath and the OS/FS communities.
Thanks!
Yes, when it eventually gets a decent GUI, some services (like networking) and some core applications, Jnode will be a truely modern, modular desktop OS. Also, being written in a very high level language means that it should be incredibly easy to maintain. The big problem seems to be writing the low level stuff; as they’re using java, some parts of this will be a nightmare. Because of this it will probably take a few years, if not a decade to reach a useful stage for end users! Anyway, good luck Jnode devs; development can only get easier.
This is a really interesting concept. And as it can run existing Java apps then it has the distinct advantage of starting off life with a large software library.
My best wishes to the developers. This is what we need more of – innovation and creativity.
The last time I used it, it took 0.5 min to execute basic commands on Athlon XP 1.9GHz, 512MB RAM.
Maybe if they used gcj ….
Hm, what basic commands? Since everything is running in the same VM it should be nearly instantaneous to load an additional class an run it.
What goals?
Regards,
Vitaliy