The previous screenshot was outdated and did not included desktop icons.
This screenshot uses the new compositor (which is available, but not
included in the repo... working on that)
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This is in favor of bootloader-assisted mode switching. Grub has a
wonderful option we will exploit to set the video mode.
My laptop supports a couple of 32-bit video modes, which is nice,
because I'm not support 24-bit modes.
I'm not sure whether the super-sketchy video memory locator will work
in the real world, but we'll find out sometime soon.
* New screenshots
* The leading screenshot has been replaced with a new one.
* Other screenshots have been added.
* Change IRC blurb
* Add a blurb about third-party software
* Fix some typos
* Add a note about libpng and zlib to the license section.
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* A minor bug has been fixed in bim's write_file method
* The VL Gothic fonts have been updated (and the proportional version of
the font is now included)
* The README and TODO have both been updated to reflect current plans.
* Some applications now support UTF-8 text through the use of a very
simple decoder.
* The terminal uses a slow, but accurate method to determine the width
of a character the first time it is printed to the screen. Characters
are now stored in the terminal in two bytes, rather than one, and may
in the future be increased to 3 or 4 bytes to ensure support for
Unicode supplemental planes.
* A simple font-fallback method is employed in the applications that
support unicode that will make use of the VL Gothic fonts if the
DejaVu font does not have a character. No guarantees are made for
support of writing systems other than extended Latin and Japanese.
This update includes support for shadow passwords, stored in
/etc/master.passwd, as well as support for an /etc/passwd file
containing user/uid/full name/shell associations, which are used by the
shell to get your username for display purposes, as well as by whoami
for the same reason. The login tool does not yet select the right shell
though this is planned.
* root's password is `toor` (a throwback to older times)
* local's password is `local` (because it's obvious)
BIOS execution is provided through the `v8086` module, which provides
software emulation of an 8086 processor. It is not currently working
with some BIOSes and may (read: probably will be) replaced with another
emulator (x86emu comes to mind) at some point in the near future. In the
meantime, the default video mode for QEMU works with this and it's
enough to get us on real VESA instead of fake VBE. The `bochs` module
will be renamed in a future commit. Userspace programs have been
adjusted to work at bitrates other than 32 *POORLY*. If you write pixels
left-to-right, they should work fine. They only work with 24-bpp
otherwise, and then you need to be careful of what pixels you are
writing when, or you will overwrite things in other pixels.
You may pass a commandline argument like the following to set display
modes:
vid=vesa,1024,768
Or for stranger modes under QEMU or Bochs, use the bochs VBE
initializer:
vid=bochs,1280,720
Note that the address of the linear framebuffer is still found via
hackish probing instead of PCI or trusting the VBE information, so if
you have things in the wrong memory ranges (0xE0000000+), be prepared to
have them get read.
Once again, this entire commit is a massive hack. I am happy that it
worked, and I will continue to make it less hacky, but in the meantime,
this is what we've got.
Happy holidays.
