v1.0.0 prelease (v0.99.24) - update W

This is a fairly minor update.

ext2: A (very reliable) crash when trying to write to mounts without caches has been fixed. This should allow writes to the ramdisk on live CDs, but note that there are still instabilities with the write support in our ext2 driver.

GUI: Input text boxes have been added. They are experimental. File Browser and Mines make use of them to provide some added functionality.

Known Issues

A potential crash in the compositor has been identified and as still being investigated.

Usage

VirtualBox is the recommended environment for running ToaruOS. QEMU is also supported. Using ToaruOS on real hardware is not recommended and we are not responsible for any issues you may encounter or damage this may cause. Other virtual machines and emulators are not supported and may not work. It is not recommended that you run ToaruOS in Bochs as the UI requires considerably higher performance than Bochs is capable of providing. When using QEMU, KVM is preferred but acceptable performance should be possible with the non-accelerated TCG backend on modern hardware.

• VirtualBox:
  • OS Type: Other/Unknown
  • Memory: At least 1024MB for in-memory package storage.
  • Video Memory: May need to be adjusted if you have a large display
• QEMU
  • qemu-system-i386 -M accel=kvm:tcg -m 1G -vga std -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -soundhw ac97,pcspk -cdrom toaruos.iso -serial stdio

To use the package manager, run sudo get-py to see a list of packages and sudo get-py vim (for example) to install a package. Packages must be downloaded from our servers and this process may be slow, please be patient.

The password for the local account is local. The password for root is toor.

License

ToaruOS includes software from many sources. A complete listing of licenses for software included in this release is available from the Help Browser (Applications > Help > Go > Topics > Licenses).