I’ve already posted some demos at the start of the year but these were much too simplistic to attract any attention so I’m starting to plan a proper launch now with some more capabilities.
Looking at about 3 weeks for basic GUI support becoming stable unless I face any major hurdles (pretty unlikely in an emulator environment), an additional 1 month or so to get some more interesting demo apps working (maybe some games, AI tools etc.), then a further 3 months on refining & advancing the current stack before it starts becoming more useful as a near-general-purpose OS.
So in other words, 4 to 6 months until I can start moving onto my new platform as my main development environment and then updates should start getting a bit more frequent.
This will probably include some very basic web functionality and other things people would expect from a general purpose OS but won’t be competitive with Linux etc. for at least a year or so (when emulators/virtualisation will be more convenient to run “real” apps). The system already has some container type functionality internally but this isn’t fully exposed yet, and other things like drivers and networking will still need more improvement after they start to stabilise, so most advanced “enterprise” & hardware features will be deferred until after an initial commercially-supportable release.
Stay tuned!
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