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SharpOS

SharpOS v0.0.0.75
Website SharpOS.org
Company/
developer		 SharpOS Project
OS family .NET C# [1]
Source model Open Source
Latest stable release 0.0.1 / January 1, 2008 [2]
Supported platforms x86
Default user interface Command line interface
License GNU General Public License Version 3 with the GPL linking exception [3]
Working state Current

SharpOS (IPA: /ʃɑrp.o.s/) is a open source .NET-C# based operating system [1] currently under development by a group of volunteers and presided over by a team of six project administrators (Mircea-Cristian Racasan, Bruce Markham, Johann MacDonagh, Sander van Rossen, Jae Hyun and William Lahti) [4]. This operating system is only one of two C# based operating systems released under an open source license [5]. SharpOS is still under major development with only one public version available [2] and a basic command line interface.

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[edit] History

SharpOS began in November 2006 [6] as a public discussion on the Mono development mailing list as a thread called Operating System in C#. After attracting many participants, Michael Schurter created the SharpOS.org Wiki and Mailing List to continue the discussion at a more relevant location. Soon after, the core developers (Bruce Markham, William Lahti, Sander van Rossen and Mircea-Cristian Racasan) decided that they would design their own AOT (Ahead-Of-Time) compiler to allow the operating system to run its boot sequence without using another programming language. Once the AOT compiler was far enough into development the team then started to code the kernel, this was met with long periods of inactivity and few active developers due to lack of interest in unsafe kernel programming [7]. On 1 January 2008 the SharpOS team made their first milestone release public [2], this is the first version of the software to appear in the SharpOS SourceForge package repository available for general public use [8].

[edit] Origin of Name

The name SharpOS is derived from the pronunciation of the C# programming language (pronounced C Sharp).

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b SharpOS - Info About SharpOS (HTML). SharpOS Project. Retrieved on 2008-04-13.
  2. ^ a b c M1 Announcement (HTML). SharpOS Project. Retrieved on 2008-04-14.
  3. ^ SharpOS - License Agreement (HTML). SharpOS Project. Retrieved on 2008-04-13.
  4. ^ SourceForge.net - SharpOS Project Details (HTML). SourceForge. Retrieved on 2008-04-14.
  5. ^ Cosmos, one of the Opensource CSharp (C#) Based Kernels (HTML). obsethryl's lab. Retrieved on 2008-04-14. “The two projects working on this the opensource way are SharpOS (licensing: GPLv3 + runtime exception, hosting: Sourceforge) and Cosmos (licensing: BSD style, hosting: CodePlex).”
  6. ^ SharpOS - Draft Publicity Article (HTML). SharpOS Project. Retrieved on 2008-04-13. “Only one year and two months ago”
  7. ^ SharpOS in the stream of C sharp (C#) kernels (HTML). obsethryl's lab. Retrieved on 2008-04-14. - See Question 1
  8. ^ SourceForge.net - SharpOS Project Files (HTML). SourceForge. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.

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Category:Operating systems Category:Operating system kernels Category:Free system software Category:Beta software