Partition Logic

This maintenance release consists of general bugfixes and improvements to hardware detection and device drivers, with a particular focus on USB. New features include the ability to boot from a USB device (a new USB image is available for download) and the ability to power down the system.

This is a major release. It offers an updated look and a number of new features, including 64-bit disk support, UDF (DVD) filesystem support, and GPT partition table support, as well as 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. A number of tweaks and bug fixes are also included.

This preview release offers an updated look and a number of new features, including 64-bit disk support, UDF (DVD) filesystem support, and GPT partition table support. The ATA/IDE driver has been enhanced, including the ability to better support backwards-compatible SATA controllers. New keyboard mappings for French, Belgian, and Spanish have been added, and a number of tweaks and bugfixes are also included.

This maintenance release features lots of work on the USB subsystem including support for USB mice/keyboards and hubs, tuning of the FAT filesystem driver, usability fixes for various user programs, and loads of Visopsys operating system kernel and C library improvements and bugfixes.

This is an important maintenance release, with a
focus on disk I/O performance, secure deletion
(shredding) of files/partitions/disks, and bug
fixes, including a data corruption problem, and
changes to the OS loader, resulting in more
reliable booting on more systems.