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Visopsys

Visopsys is an alternative operating system for PC compatible computers. Under development since late 1997, this system is small, fast, and open source. It features a simple but functional graphical interface, real preemptive multitasking, and virtual memory. Though it attempts to be compatible in a number of ways, Visopsys is not a clone of any other operating system. You can demo the distribution from a "live" CD or floppy disk.

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  •  15 Nov 2011 03:08

    Release Notes: The bulk of this release consists of general bugfixes and improvements to hardware detection and device drivers, with a particular focus on USB. New features include the ability to boot from a USB device (a new USB image is available for download) and the ability to power down the system.

    •  18 Feb 2011 22:53

    Release Notes: More than four years in the making, this is a major new release offering an updated look and a number of new features, including JPEG image support, image resizing, 64-bit disk support, UDF (DVD) filesystem support, and GPT partition table support, as well as many new icons, wallpaper images, and file browsing functionality. New administrative applications and functionality have been added, and the ATA/IDE driver has been enhanced, including the ability to better support backwards-compatible SATA controllers. Numerous tweaks and bugfixes are also included.

    •  05 Feb 2008 07:12

    Release Notes: This preview of the next release offers an updated look and a number of new features, including JPEG image support, image resizing, 64-bit disk support, UDF (DVD) filesystem support, and GPT partition table support, as well as lots of new icons, wallpaper images, and file browsing functionality. New administrative applications and functionality have been added, and the ATA/IDE driver has been enhanced, including the ability to better support backwards-compatible SATA controllers. FPU context saving has been improved, and a number of tweaks and bugfixes are also included.

    •  24 Sep 2007 06:55

    Release Notes: This is a maintenance release comprising the final round of tweaks and bugfixes to the 0.6x series of Visopsys. Lots of work was done on the USB subsystem, including support for USB mice/keyboards and hubs. The FAT filesystem driver was tuned. Usability fixes were made for various user programs. Loads of OS kernel and C library improvements and bugfixes were made.

    •  10 May 2007 02:34

    Release Notes: This maintenance release focused on disk I/O performance (fixing the kernel's disk cache and adding IDE lookahead and write caching), secure deletion (shredding) of files/partitions/disks, and bugfixes, including important changes to the OS loader resulting in more reliable booting on more systems.

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    03 Nov 2006 08:35 kkonzept Thumbs up

    Interesting project
    It's really an insteresting stable project, I'm willing to contribute.

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