Whitix 0.2 released!
I’ve finally released Whitix 0.2 for general download. New features in this release include:
- Hard drive installation. Whitix can now be installed to a hard drive using “textinstall” (at the moment, the drive must be partitioned before installing Whitix), and booted using GRUB.
- New shell features. The Burn shell now uses color highlighting to display correct commands and parameters. Tab completion is used for the new help system, and will be extended and completed by the time 0.3 is released.
- Support for Mono and other ports. GCC, LD, make, mono and the mono C# compiler have all been ported to the platform successfully.
- KeObject and IcFs. Device configuration and management is much more dynamic than competing operating systems. ioctl has now disappeared from the Whitix API, to be replaced by the KeObject subsystem and ICFS (the information and configuration filesystem). For more information on this, see “Explaining ICFS”, a series of articles on the topic
- Support for more filesystems. ext3 write support (with journalling), and reiserfs read support now added.
- More stable kernel. More than 100 bugs and issues have been fixed since the last alpha release.
More information can be found on the development releases page. Let us know about bugs and issues by posting a new report on the bug tracker Enjoy!