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VISOPSYS 0.7 PREVIEW
(04/02/2008)

A preview of the upcoming 0.7 release is now available.  This new release offers an updated look and a number of new features, including JPEG image support, image resizing, 64-bit disk support, UDF (DVD) filesystem support, and GPT partition table support, as well as lots of new icons, wallpaper images, and file browsing functionality. New administrative applications and functionality have been added, and the ATA/IDE driver has been enhanced, including the ability to better support backwards-compatible SATA controllers. FPU context saving has been improved, and a number of tweaks and bug fixes are also included.
 

Download the CD-ROM image: visopsys-0.7_PRE-iso.zip
Download the floppy disk image: visopsys-0.7_PRE-img.zip
Download the source code: visopsys-0.7_PRE-src.zip

 
 SCREENSHOTS (click image to expand)
 

Boot-time splash screen Welcome screen at first boot
Normal login screen Default desktop, first login
The Computer browser and File Browser programs Viewing a JPEG image from the File Browser program
A command window, the Programs folder, and the Calendar, Edit, Mines!, and Snake! programs running A file selection dialog, the Administration folder, and the Devices and Disk Manager programs running
The Administration folder, and the Configuration Editor, Display Settings, and Keyboard Mapping programs running    

 

NEW LOOK

Visopsys' appearance has been updated for the 0.7 release.  Here are some of the details of the changes for comparative purposes.

New desktop wallpaper images are included.  The small, default, tiled image has changed as follows.

New version Old version

In addition, there are three new full-size wallpaper images included in the 'full' version (the CD-ROM image)

Hoops Japan Saturn

Various graphical elements of the GUI have changed.

Element New Old
Active window title bar
Inactive window title bar
Radio button
Checkbox
Scroll bar
Button
Default mouse pointer
Horizontal resize pointer  
Vertical resize pointer  

All of the file type icons (used by the File Browser program for example) have been updated.

New icon File types Old icon
Archives
(Zip, Gzip, Ar)
Binary files
(unknown types)
Boot sectors
Configuration files
Executable programs
(ELF binaries)
Folders
HTML documents
New icon File types Old icon
Image files
(JPEG, GIF, ICO, PNG)
Keymap files
Object files
(ELF .o, shared object libraries)
Unknown file types
PDF documents
General text files

The 'attention', 'info', and 'question' icons have also been updated

New versions Old versions

Several of the program icons have also been updated.

New icon Program Old icon
The Calendar program
The Devices program
(shows hardware info)
The File Systems program
(for specifying mount
points, etc.)
The Install program
New icon Program Old icon
The Mines! game
The Snake! game
The User Manager
program (for managing
login accounts)

 

NEW ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONALITY

Some user functionality and administrative programs have been improved.

New version Old version

The file chooser dialog now (optionally) shows thumbnails of image files.

 

New version Old version

The Display Settings program has been reorganized and improved, for example showing a thumbnail of the current desktop wallpaper image.

 

New version Old version

The Keyboard Mapping program has been rewritten, so that in
addition to setting the current keyboard map, it can load, edit,
and save keymaps.

 


A new File Systems program allows mount
points to be specified, and whether to mount
filesystems at boot time.
 
 
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