SOLAR_OS new version released on 2006_06_11

[BogdanOntanu]

Hi all,

I have released a new version of Solar_OS.
As you might know this is an full 32bit ASM OS with a nice GUI (source code is included)

http://www.oby.ro/os/files/sol_os_2006_06_11_src.zip
http://www.oby.ro/os/files/sol_os_2006_06_11_bin.zip

New things in this release:
* Network drivers for DEC 21140A 10/100 (by Eugen)
* API_File_Open() / Close()
* Registering Applications as Shell extension handlers
* Bresenham Circle and Line demo application
* "WatchDog" on/off option and cooldown Tk2 option Razz
* CD-ROM ISO 9660 filesystem and browse
* ATAPI drivers
* HDD Smart and Power management
* TreeView control
* Alternative Skin and font
* Better text viewer
* Bitmap viewer

This version is "intermediate" aka it was not tested as intensively as it should.

Enjoy Wink

Any comments are wellcome...

[hutch--]

Bogdan,

Later : I read your web site and installed it on a test VM as a floppy image. Works fine, I ran it at 1024 * 768 and it displayed correctly, menu system worked fine, tried out drawing a window with the "dialog" style drawing tools. ABout the only bad thing was when I was playing with the circle draw I went past zero and got it to lock up that way. Impressive effort and very small for its capacity.  :U

[BogdanOntanu]

Hutch,

Thank you for testing it ...

I should have thought of such a decent bug like: a zero radius for the circle :D

As I have said before I did not have the time for proper bug checking before this release.
So any tests you guys (or girls?) do make is really helping me a lot and will be included as "hot fixes" into the next release ;)

[no-one]

WOW!  I have been testing your distro and I am impressed :thumbu

The only strange thing that I found is my HDD drive size is misreported as 897mb.  It is over 18gb (c=6.53gb, d=12gb)

Also, check for typos, for example wellcome should be welcome.  I know that is a minor thing but I am just trying to help.

no-one

[BogdanOntanu]

Ooops,

Thanks for testing...

I will check the HDD size detection routine... maybe I forgot a bug inside ;)
and i am pretty sure that I have made a lot of typos... thanks for pointing them out

BTW SOLAR is an OS in it's early stage of evolution...
not a "distro" of another OS neither based on other OS whatsoever ;)

[no-one]

Sorry.  OS, I will remember.

no-one