The Nova Operating System

Welcome to the Nova project web server. Nova (Nova is a recursive acronym for ``Nova Offers Virtually no Applications'') is the effort to create a POSIX-like system on top of the rtmk microkernel.

Nova is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

Table of contents: News | Goals of the Nova project | Status of the Nova project | Obtaining Nova | Contact

News

March 28, 2002: Just commited a HUGE amout of code. Nova is now running native applications. Proof. A initial source snapshot is also available.
February 5, 2002: Well, a screenshot for you fellas: nova-shot.jpg
January 29, 2002: Can now run /sbin/init.
January 23, 2002: Started writing some code.
December 14, 2001: Project launched.

Goals of the Nova project

The goals for the project;

create a functional POSIX-like operating system on top of the rtmk microkernel,
incorporate the Crust Display System as an important part of the system.

Status of the Nova project

Have just started to work on it. Right now it can load /sbin/init from a ext2 file system and run it.

Obtaining Nova

If you plan to do active work on the nova, you can access the development source tree by anonymous CVS:

  cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/nova login 
  {just hit enter when prompted for password}
  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/nova co nova

Alternatively, you can use the viewcvs interface.

Contact

There are some public mailing lists related to rtmk.

nova-discuss (archives): For discussing Nova issues
nova-cvs (archives): A read-only mailing list containing the notes from checkins to the Nova CVS

johan rydberg
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