PowerNex is now more than 1 Year 11 months old

* Edit: I used the wrong date, PowerNex will be 1 year old on the 3:rd November

This release contains:

• Userspace:
  • ELF loading
  • Thread Local storage support
  • Syscall support
• Userspace programs:
  • Init - Spawn a shell in each VirtualConsole
  • Shell - Basic shell
  • Cat - Cat files
  • DLogo - Render the D logo to the screen (Will only write it to console 1)
  • HelloWorld - Example hello world program
• Real time from Motherboard
• Virtual Consoles (Current 4 consoles, 1280x720 in size)
• Better Scheduling, Fork and Clone

QEMU run command: qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom PowerNex.iso -m 128 -monitor stdio -no-reboot Virtualbox settings: Select Other/Unknown (64-bit) as the OS type and version.

What to do in PowerNex

• Alt-{1-4} Switch between the four different virtual consoles.
• Run help in the shell to get some built in commands.
• To run a executable you need to write the path to it.
  • Basically just like a *nix shell, but you don't need to write './' if you are in the same directory as the executable, just the executable name is enough.

This release contains:

• A BGA graphics driver - For drawing pixel per pixel colors to the screen (Screen resolution is locked to 1280x720)
• Custom TTY Font rendering
• Rendering of BMP images in the TTY
• QEMU & VirtualBox Support
• Memory Manager
• Virtual File System
• A Initrd that is connected to the VFS
• Multithreading
• Tons of more druntime types and functions.

QEMU run command: qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom PowerNex.iso -m 128 -monitor stdio -no-reboot Virtualbox setting: Select Other/Unknown (64-bit) as the OS type and version.

Really really prerelease alpha. Just got x86_64 working! Even with a 'easter egg' if you try and run it in a 32-bit VM!

To run with x86_64 qemu run: qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom powernex.iso To see the 'easter egg' run: qemu-system-i386 -cdrom powernex.iso