We decided for 五OS (pronounced « Go O.S. ») to start working on the global design of the user interface. As the development of the OS internals is getting closer to be on the User Interface, we decided to let a different team start working on this aspect of the OS.

http://5os.net/wiki/Proof_of_concept

We welcome constructive comments (yeah, we know it looks a lot like vista, we’re working on this aspect, no need to remind that to us). Basically the user interface should be out for febuary 2008, but it may be quite limited (don’t know yet, it’ll depend on when I manage to completly fix multitasking).

By the way, kernel module support has been completed, and the kernel is now able to load additionnal module to provide support for different graphic cards. Kernel seems to be broken on Bochs/VMWare (somewhat manages to start, but crashes before or after enabling graphics mode) but it should be fixed soon.

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