{"id":605,"date":"2026-02-20T01:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/?p=605"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:11:06","slug":"renaming-os-project-few-hardware-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/renaming-os-project-few-hardware-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"OS Rebrand Coming, Few Hardware Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m currently having some minor &#8220;it&#8217;s not working&#8221; problems with my very complicated computer setup and am also trying to prioritise getting to a doctor and getting a better chair. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve lost any recent work between malfunctions though and I aim to be back to work within a month or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll be dropping the DOS reference in REFDOS (RD) <em>for reasons<\/em> but haven&#8217;t finalised a new name. There will also be some changes in direction along with or after the rebrand:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maybe looking at incorporating a custom processor architecture &amp; using FPGAs as the main target (this could lessen the need for excessive driver work and also help spread the RISC, so to speak)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will do some more work on marketing &amp; finding a niche (maybe education or maybe robotics etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will decide what to do about a graphics subystem<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May look at open-sourcing some components (maybe the whole OS, we&#8217;ll see)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be more to come too in time like maybe an online package repository and easily installable versions of compilers etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently having some minor &#8220;it&#8217;s not working&#8221; problems with my very complicated computer setup and am also trying to prioritise getting to a doctor and getting a better chair. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve lost any recent work between malfunctions though and I aim to be back to work within a month or so. I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/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-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}