Welcome to i9! This project aims to build a reasonably secure, microkernel-based operating system, with binary compatibility to other OSes, a range of Personalities (environments that behave like other OSes). and a comprehensive set of APIs that give users and developers freedom of choice.

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All new code released by the i9 project is Open Source, and is released under the terms of the MIT License. Some older components are dual-licensed under the i9 License, and others are covered under different licenses.

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Representing the integration of several components, and a great deal of time and energy, I'm pleased to announce that version 0.0.0 (codenamed "Prelude") has been released to a small amount of attention.

This version contains the following components, and is released as a 1.1MB bzip2-compressed tarball containing a VMware virtual machine hosted on Google Code:

1. The GRUB 0.97 bootloader
2. The latest Mercurial version of the L4Ka::Pistachio microkernel as of writing
3. The experimental GenodeKit Personality, based upon components from version 9.02 of The Genode Operating System Framework
4. A number of small L4Ka::Pistachio userland demonstration binaries (although not all of these are functional)

Given the relatively minimal usage that the Project Management and Issue Tracking features hosted here had, and the fact that Google Code already offered these features (which made hosting them here redundant), they have now been disabled.
These resources increased the resource utilisation of the site unnecessarily, also had quite a lot of outdated/irrelevant content that was not updated as quickly as I would have liked it to have been - given the highly fluid structure of the project and it's codebase.

A subset of this functionality is available at http://code.google.com/p/i9os/issues/.

As always, I stress that as a relatively young project, i9 is looking for contributors to guide it along the path towards something relatively coherent and useful - accounting for a number of design decisions and features of course!

With that in mind, I aim to nail down some sort of roadmap towards a first release (0.0.0, tentatively codenamed "Prelude"), and try to give a somewhat realistic/concrete idea of what I hope will feature in it.

Initial errors prior to incorporation of header files:

[tyson@nagasaki i9os]$ make prefab-l4test
cd Microkernel/user/apps/l4test && pwd && make
/home/tyson/i9os/Microkernel/user/apps/l4test
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tyson/i9os/Microkernel/user/apps/l4test'
===> Rebuilding ./Makefile
config.status: creating ./Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/tyson/i9os/Microkernel/user/lib/io'
===> Rebuilding ./Makefile
config.status: creating ./Makefile
config.status: creating config.h