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jNode (java)

Started by Terry, 2011.03.17, 02:04:23

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Terry

..interesting  ...just ran across jNode - a Java-based operating System at http://www.jnode.org/.

jNode seems to be mainly run inside a VM.  In a way, it almost sounds like running another operating system within your operating system kind-of-like running Win-OS2 inside OS2.

jNode's home page"JNode is a free, open source Java technology based operating system implemented in the Java language with a very small assembler nano-kernel.  The main focus of this release is general stability improvements and bug fixes and also reflects the current status of several major features in active development such as: isolates, Bjorne shell and complete support for HFS+. Significant progress has been made with the integration of the remaining parts of OpenJDK and the JNode class library has been updated to OpenJDK6 b13. JNode now builds with both JDK 1.6 and OpenJDK6+IceadTea..."