SharpOS (operating system)

Infobox OS
name = SharpOS



caption = SharpOS v0.0.0.75
developer = SharpOS Project
family = .NET C# cite web |url=http://www.sharpos.org/redmine/wiki/3/About_SharpOS |title=SharpOS - Info About SharpOS |accessdate=2008-04-13 |format=HTML |work=SharpOS Project]
supported_platforms = x86
source_model = Open Source
latest_release_version = 0.0.1
latest_release_date = January 1, 2008 cite web |url=http://www.sharpos.org/redmine/wiki/3/M1_Announcement |title=M1 Announcement |accessdate=2008-04-14 |format=HTML |work=SharpOS Project]
working_state = Current
ui = Command line interface
license = GNU General Public License Version 3 with the GPL linking exception [cite web |url=http://www.sharpos.org/redmine/wiki/3/License_Agreement |title=SharpOS - License Agreement |accessdate=2008-04-13 |format=HTML |work=SharpOS Project]
website = [http://www.sharpos.org SharpOS.org]

SharpOS (IPAEng|ʃɑrp.o.s) is a open source .NET-C# based operating system 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) [cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/SharpOS |title=SourceForge.net - SharpOS Project Details |accessdate=2008-04-14 |format=HTML |work=SourceForge] . This operating system is only one of two C# based operating systems released under an open source license [cite web |url=http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/cosmos-one-opensource-csharp-c-based-kernels |accessdate=2008-04-14 |format=HTML |work=obsethryl's lab |title=Cosmos, one of the Opensource CSharp (C#) Based Kernels |quote=The two projects working on this the opensource way are SharpOS (licensing: GPLv3 + runtime exception, hosting: Sourceforge) and Cosmos (licensing: BSD style, hosting: CodePlex). ] . SharpOS is still under major development with only one public version available and a basic command line interface.

History

SharpOS began in November 2006 [cite web |url=http://www.sharpos.org/redmine/wiki/3/Draft_Publicity_Article |title=SharpOS - Draft Publicity Article |accessdate=2008-04-13 |format=HTML |work=SharpOS Project |quote=Only one year and two months ago] 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 [cite web |url=http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/sharpos-stream-c-sharp-c-kernels |accessdate=2008-04-14 |format=HTML |work=obsethryl's lab |title=SharpOS in the stream of C sharp (C#) kernels |quote= - See Question 1] . On 1 January 2008 the SharpOS team made their first milestone release public , this is the first version of the software to appear in the SharpOS SourceForge package repository available for general public use [cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=196652 |title=SourceForge.net - SharpOS Project Files |accessdate=2008-04-15 |format=HTML |work=SourceForge] .

Origin of Name

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

Notes

See also

Singularity (operating system)

External links

* [http://www.sharpos.org SharpOS Official Website]
* [http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/sharpos-stream-c-sharp-c-kernels Interview with SharpOS team]