Re: Lua-based OS (was: Safe Lua)

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Hi,

Am 04.08.2011 um 14:44 schrieb startx <startx@plentyfact.org>:

I have thought about the idea of a Lua-based OS, and it could

certainly be interesting...

I too think such a project would be interesting. It has already

been tried at least once:

http://outofhanwell.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/khoros-a-lua-operating-system/

Sadly the source code is no longer accessible.

i should have a copy of the source. ill check later and if its really

not accessible anymore i put it up somewhere next days.

yes it appears the khoros repository has disappeared. i uploaded a
snapshot of the repo here:

http://projects.plentyfact.org/projects/list_files/thisandthat

direct download link is

http://projects.plentyfact.org/attachments/download/79/khoros-lua-os.tar.gz

note: i was not involved in developing khoros, i only tested it for a
while and played around with it ;)

its under BSD license.

Since I was one of the two khoros developers I can say something to the status: 

Matthias Miller stopped devel for private reasons and now only I'm left.

Since he wanted to use khoros.org (it was his naming idea) for private other stuff,

I renamed the project to lv0(.org).

I rewrote a lot of things (especially the boot loader), my idea is now to boot straight into 64 bit long mode similar as done here: http://www.returninfinity.com/pure64.html 

I did not published any code yet, I guess I will write an announcement, once this will happen.

Regards,

Jörg