making jnode a dayly use operating system

Submitted by davide.bz on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 08:44.

Hi,

Im am a senior j2ee developer/architect and I like very much the idea to
build a operating system with java. I think that using java services
and class structure to create a system is much more better than
using a free structure of files and conventions like in linux.

How much effort is necessari to male jnode to be usable in each day work?

For example what about:

- web browser
- email client
- office
- eclipse

?

To speed up the time is possible for you to make a layer that male linux
applications to work on top of jnode? Like firefox, openoffice, eclipse?

Thanks, Davide!

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You are welcome to help ...

Submitted by Fabien D on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 18:40.

... but we are not going to make a layer that would allow linux applications to run on top of JNode. Our goal is to run java application, not linux application Eye-wink

If you want to do that, you can use a PC emulator written in pure java PC like JPC.
That would allow you to run your favorite linux applications inside your favorite linux distro.
But be warned : if that works, it will be very slow (at least right now).

For things like web browser, email client, office application, eclipse, I know that solutions are being developed (completely unrelated to JNode as far I know) in pure java.
The more advanced solutions are probably email clients because they are the easiest to implement (on top of javax.mail API Eye-wink ) : I am thinking especially about columba.

All that being said, the **very small** team is concentrating on the core of JNode to make it more reliable and faster.
So, your help is really welcome ! Discussing is good but we have tons of people coming for that. What we **really** need is more developers making code contributions to JNode and preferably on the long term. So, join and help us !

Fabien

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