Download HelenOS 0.4.0

HelenOS is written by a number of employees and students of the mathematics and physics faculties at the Charles University in Prague with the aim of developing a modern operating system. Much attention is paid to supporting symmetric multiprocessing and multitasking on multiple hardware platforms such as IA-32, IA-64, x86-64, ARM, PowerPC and Sparc V9. For more information, we refer you to this page. The developers released a new version of HelenOS on Valentine’s Day with 0.4.0 as the version number:

HelenOS 0.4.0 (Sinister Valentine) Released!

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of HelenOS 0.4.0. This is the list of major improvements since the previous release:

• bdsh shell (simple CLI)
• task loader
• task tracer
• RAM disk support
• FAT file system support
• ia64 improvements
• ppc32 improvements
• sparc64 improvements
• better configuration system
• console speedups and improvements
• lots of bug fixes and other improvements