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### IRC ###
`#toaruos@irc.freenode.net`
For discussion, help with building or running the OS, and for up-to-date build verification, please join us in `#toaruos` on Freenode.
## News ##
The Terminal now supprots Unicode text. We also have an editor based loosely on Vim.
Full compositing has been enabled. For opaque windows, it is considerably faster than the old rendering methods. This is not the case for transparent windows, which I am working on. Eventually, blitting of transparent windows will be done with SSE instructions, and should be about as fast as non-transparent windows, at which point transparency may become the default.
## Features ##
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* PS/2 keyboard/mouse support
* Of course, what doesn't?
* Graphical features
* We are hard at work building a window environment that makes use of shared memory
* Currently supports full-screen operation of graphical applications
* Windows GUI environment with transparency support
* Limited GUI toolkit available
* Extensive, ANSI-capable terminal
* Includes extensive compatibility with xterm
* Support for 256 colors
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* Supports Unicode text (UTF-8 encoded)
* And dozens of other minor things not worth listing here.
## Current Plans ##
### Third-Party Software ###
The current development focus for the project is networking support.
While とあるOS ships with only its own native software tools, we are working on packages for additional third-party software, incuding:
* Lua
* Lua's standalone interpreter has been sucessfully built and run.
* Some Lua functionality is currently missing and we are working to solve this.
* Cairo
* Cairo and its dependencies can be built if care is taken to supply the correct configuration settings.
* To build pixman, modifications to the `config.h` header must be made to disable global constructors, as these are not currently supported.
## Screenshots ##
Here's what とあるOS looks like:
![Screenshot](http://i.imgur.com/Xn93Pl.png)
![Screenshot](http://i.imgur.com/NRUWGl.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/Xn93P.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/NRUWG.png)
Here's what とあるOS has looked like in the past:
* [Running a Cairo demo](http://i.imgur.com/DQK7P.png)
* [With multiple transparent terminals](http://i.imgur.com/K6nPC.png)
* [A terminal and the native editor](http://i.imgur.com/4SGhd.png)
* [Running the native editor in a full-screen terminal](http://i.imgur.com/u1DEX.png)
* [Fully userspace shell, demonstrating a threading application](http://i.imgur.com/S7rab.png)
* [Logging in and moving around](http://i.imgur.com/VjTMv.png)
* [Booting up the (WIP) graphical interface](http://i.imgur.com/g2yfr.png)
* [Nyaning](http://i.imgur.com/2BISA.png)
* [Demoing multitasking](http://i.imgur.com/RY4lb.png)
* [Empty kernel shell](http://i.imgur.com/44huV.jpg)
* [With a wallpaper and mouse cursor](http://i.imgur.com/eG0i9.png)
* [Running some GNU apps](http://i.imgur.com/aKyJb.png)
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Latest version: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c
* Build scripts will retrieve copies of [GCC](http://gcc.gnu.org/), [Newlib](http://sourceware.org/newlib/) and [FreeType](http://www.freetype.org/). Patches for these software packages are provided under the same license as the package they are for.
* Build scripts will retrieve copies of [GCC](http://gcc.gnu.org/), [Newlib](http://sourceware.org/newlib/), [FreeType](http://www.freetype.org/), [libpng](http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html) and [zlib](http://www.zlib.net/) Patches for these software packages are provided under the same license as the package they are for.