JNode 0.2.4 review

JNode is a simple to use and install Java operating system for personal use. It runs on modern devices. Any java application wi

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: JNode Team

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JNode is a simple to use and install Java operating system for personal use.

It runs on modern devices.

Any java application will run on it, fast & secure! JNode is open source and uses the LGPL license.

This release has taken way too much time, but is finally here!
It contains lots of changes on many areas of JNode. Most important changes are about the massive improvements of the GUI and the Classpath runtime library.

Besides these changes, a lot of changes have to to with the inner workings of the JNode virtual machine.

To make it easier to try JNode, this release comes with a VMWare player configuration file. Install VMWare player, download the compressed iso image, uncompress it, download the VMX file and run it.

What's New in This Release:
Basic support for development under JNode javac command, included with the use of Eclipse JDT compiler Integrated standard java tools: jar, native2ascii, serialver etc. from GNU Classpath Text console improvements Swing based console New textconsole based editor JFat - a FAT32 file system implementation RamFS - a simple in-memory file system FTPFS - a read-only FTP based file system Many classpath patches ImageIO support for PNG, GIF and BMP images from GNU Classpath BDF font support Changable desktop Look & Feel Isolate (JSR 121), not fully supported Simple webserver under JNode Various bugfixes in the resource loading, ISO9660, socket writing Download of JNode can be done at www.jnode.org/node/### More information can be found at www.jnode.org or http://sourceforge.net/projects/jnode