Breadbox Computer Company, announced recently that they have signed a worldwide non-exclusive licensing agreement with Geoworks, to license the GEOS operating system for use on any and all hardware platforms and devices, including desktop computers, PDAs, smart phones, communicators, set-top boxes, and other embedded devices. Breadbox has been devoted to and particpated in most major GEOS projects for the past 10 years. In other operating system news, Roadrunner, a single-user, general-purpose operating system based on the POSIX standards just had a new release, while MenuetOS, the x86 assembly-only OS, had a release with support for more advanced multithreading. Last, but not least, the SkyOS folks let us know of their latest advancements on their OS, which it seems to be shaping up pretty good.
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whoa! i didnt know roadrunner was still alive! i remember seeing this… well.. ages ago…
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…..The OS that refuses to die. I wish Breadbox good luck – hopefully they are smart enough to re-release GEOS as a full 32-bit OS, and update the Office applications. Even as a 16 bit OS it is still amazingly powerful. A True 32-bit GEOS might whoop some OS ass.
Can’t wait to buy it (provided it’s got Radeon drivers)
Breadbox licensed the code before Geoworks announced they were trying to sell it.
It’s not that interesting, because it’s missing out on the past 5 years worth of work. And Breadbox is really small, so I don’t see much happening. But, Breadbox was the ones driving the 32bit efforts.
As to video drivers, its pretty much just VESA. No accel, really annoying. I’d probably try writing drivers for TNT 2 and for Virge/MX (as those are what I have in my computers) if I could find specs.