Harvest Season

In a relatively short period of time, there have been multiple achievements on the HelenOS development front. In June, Martin Decky has reworked the userspace start up phase and allowed applications to be loaded from a file system (only TMPFS at that time). This effort was later in July improved by a new member of the development team, Jiri Svoboda, who integrated a full-fledged static loader, which is a part of his broader effort to deliver a dynamic loader. Another new contributor, Tim Post, has been diligently working on a simple command line interface that will allow us to work with the file system interactively. The command line interface, bdsh as Tim named it, is now soaking in the shell branch and awaits integration to trunk. Finally, Jakub Jermar improved the FAT server to the point when the read-only support is sort of working and HelenOS can boot from a FAT16 ramdisk.