Jari OS Open source microkernel multi-service RTOS

Jari OS plans for a beta version has some changes.

First of all is a date: beta release moved to Q4 of 2010 - that  means all subsystems features will be frozen and all works will be intended to bug fixing, code clean up and optimization. For near milestones there are will be a series of alpha releases (alpha1 and so on).

Second changes is a feature set, it was also chaned. We are planning to have the following list of features and changes in beta (and it's stable and optimized variant in stable version):

• security layer
• separated ELF loader implemented like library (currently it located in service)
• networking (with sockets)
• improved mappings and file caches
• clear ext2 support (now it's has alpha stage)
• initial usb support (mostly oriented on mass storage support)
• pipes/fifo/POSIX queues/shared memory support
• full and clean ISO C support
• workaround with time zones and time functions
• select/poll functions
• iso9660 (with extensions) support
• ATAPI (cdrom) support
• new RPC protocol (version 2.5) that will be works via DSL
• fully ported GNU coreutils
• system applications
• many other small cases

Also, we will try to add the following:

• XFS port
• SATA support
• Demo distro
• Packages support
• GNU development tools port

For the near time - for the alpha1 release we will show a progress with:

• file mappings and page cache improvements
• external ELF loader
• initial security model

Alpha1 release is planned for september of 2009, other plans will be posted here in october of 2009.