Sortix 1.0 Released

Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen on 2016-03-28

I'm happy to announce the release of Sortix 1.0. This is the first self-hosting and installable release.

Sortix is a small self-hosting operating-system aiming to be a clean and modern POSIX implementation. It is a hobbyist operating system written from scratch with its own base system, including kernel and standard library, as well as ports of third party software.

There are a lot of major developments this release:

Interactive installer.

Manual pages for Sortix specifics.

Relicensed to ISC.

User-space converted to C.

Custom partition editor.

Harddisk drivers.

Init system overhaul.

And a lot more.

This goal of this release is for Sortix to become a solid base for future growth.

Installation and More Information

See the official website for general information about the Sortix project.

The 1.0 release page goes into depth about this release.

You can download Sortix from your local mirror.

The installation(7) manual page covers the installation process in depth.

The source code is freely available and included in the release itself.

Thanks

I'd like to thank all my contributors that contributed code, tested the release, and gave advice.