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.
SCREENSHOTS (click image to expand)
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Boot-time splash screen |
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Welcome screen at first boot |
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Normal login screen |
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Default desktop, first login |
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The Computer browser and File Browser
programs |
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Viewing a JPEG image from the File Browser
program |
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A command window, the Programs folder, and
the Calendar, Edit, Mines!, and Snake! programs running |
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A file selection dialog, the Administration
folder, and the Devices and Disk Manager programs running |
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The Administration folder, and the
Configuration Editor, Display Settings, and Keyboard Mapping programs
running |
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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 |
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In addition, there are three new full-size wallpaper images included in the
'full' version (the CD-ROM image)
Various graphical elements of the GUI have changed.
Element |
New |
Old |
Active window title bar |
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Inactive window title bar |
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Radio button |
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Checkbox |
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Scroll bar |
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Button |
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Default mouse pointer |
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Horizontal resize pointer |
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Vertical resize pointer |
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All of the file type icons (used by the File Browser program for example)
have been updated.
New icon |
File types |
Old icon |
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Archives
(Zip, Gzip, Ar) |
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Binary files
(unknown types) |
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Boot sectors |
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Configuration files |
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Executable programs
(ELF binaries) |
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Folders |
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HTML documents |
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New icon |
File types |
Old icon |
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Image files
(JPEG, GIF, ICO, PNG) |
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Keymap files |
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Object files
(ELF .o, shared object libraries) |
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Unknown file types |
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PDF documents |
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General text files |
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The 'attention', 'info', and 'question' icons have also been updated
New versions |
Old versions |
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Several of the program icons have also been updated.
New icon |
Program |
Old icon |
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The Calendar program |
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The Devices program
(shows hardware info) |
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The File Systems program
(for specifying mount
points, etc.) |
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The Install program |
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New icon |
Program |
Old icon |
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The Mines! game |
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The Snake! game |
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The User Manager
program (for managing
login accounts) |
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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. |
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New version |
Old version |

The Display Settings program has been reorganized and improved,
for example showing a thumbnail of the current desktop wallpaper
image. |
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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. |
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A new File Systems program allows mount
points to be specified, and whether to mount
filesystems at boot time. |
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