My previous plan was to stage 1.x releases towards a fully new kernel design in 2.0 but it looks like the replacement code will be more-or-less finished any day now so for real releases I now mostly just have to worry about adding more features!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So it’s likely that a 1.0 kernel will be released with only basic features and some limited modularity. This kernel will be mostly stable<\/em> but not fully tuned or perfected, so API\/ABI stability will still be work in progress for the 1.x branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ll probably release a plain 1.0 version once the example code is fully or almost fully replaced. Although I’m inclined to call it something like 0.9 and finish drivers etc. it’s unlikely that I’ll find a better target for when to call it 1.0 than basing it on the replacement of legacy code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This means graphics, advanced drivers etc. won’t be finished by 1.0 it will only be a “general purpose OS” in so far as implementing core features like multitasking. It won’t have full end-user features like a desktop and it won’t have an easy IDE for programmers yet, it will just be a tech preview running some programs on a new stack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This probably won’t come with full public source code but there will be some code with the release, and this applies only to the kernel (the “userland” stuff is still just a demo).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I previously planned to tie other software versions to the kernel version but this may be unnecessary if the kernel is mostly finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compiler backend & libc are already mostly working as well as some simple programs. These will probably initially be released in a simple demo package with the kernel but will eventually be versioned as well, particularly after the system becomes fully self-hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fast Kernel Releases My previous plan was to stage 1.x releases towards a fully new kernel design in 2.0 but it looks like the replacement code will be more-or-less finished any day now so for real releases I now mostly just have to worry about adding more features! So it’s likely that a 1.0 kernel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1.0 Will Be Limited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Rest Will Move Slower<\/h2>\n\n\n\n