[Oberon] ANN: UnixAos rel. 0.6

[Guenter Feldmann]

Hi all Oberon and Bluebottle fans


The last alpha release (0.6) of UnixAos is now available at

    "ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/home/fld/oberon/UnixAos"

It is usable on the x86 variants of Solaris, Linux and MacOSX (Darwin).

Starting with this release UnixAos comes up with the BlueBottle window-
manager. The Oberon desktop has been integrated and can be started 
from within the windowmanager.

Current state of the system:

    - The SAFE attribute of active objects has no effect. As a result the 
      system gets frozen (or partly frozen) if a message sequenzer 
      (WMMessages.MsgSequencer) traps!
      Especially in the Darwin port this happens often as a result of an 
      unidentified X11-IO-error.

    - There is no sound output.

    - The system contains no hardware drivers. If you want to read from or 
      write to hardware interfaces you must access these as ordinary Unix 
      device files.

    - The network stuff (Unix/AosUDP, Unix/AosTCP) needs more testing. Is 
      seems to be very slow when using the BB browser.

The next release will have support for 'safe' active objects and hopefully be 
in beta state.


-- Guenter