All releases of Visopsys
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Release Notes: This maintenance release includes a number of bugfixes and the addition of new capabilities to the IDE disk driver, including PCI, DMA, and 48-bit addressing support, a significant re-engineering of the Disk Manager program to modularize it for new disk label types, plus support for moving logical partitions and creating 'preceding' logical partitions.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release, featuring the ability to resize Windows Vista partitions, more reliable loading on various systems, better exception handling, color text in graphics mode, improvements to the C library, and a number of bugfixes.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release, with particular focus on the Disk Manager program, the USB subsystem, and the GUI. The Disk Manager (a.k.a. Partition Logic) can now copy and paste partitions, cancel partition move operations, format user-specified FAT subtypes, and has more user-friendly partition type selection.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release, with extensive code grooming and bugfixes. There has been a particular focus on the GUI code, kernel debugging, the kernel API, gcc 4.x warnings, and compiler optimization problems. New user-visible features include the addition of right-click context menus and support for 32-bit bitmaps and icons.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance and bugfix release, with numerous small tweaks throughout the entire system. New features include the ability to format and resize Linux swap partitions, more reliable OS loading, more detailed CPU detection, and a simple text editor.
