Q:What does "totally by hand" mean ?
A:It means you build JNode iso image under condition that you don't have any necessary software on hand available.

*Necessary Software*
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@Tools-->Please check if these below tools are installed already

*coreutils* --Core package built-in any GNU/linux distribution
http://directory.fsf.org/coreutils.html

*tar*--A GNU file archiving program
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

*bzip2*--A block-sorting file compressor
http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html

*nasm*--The famous Netwide Assembler

Just wondering what is the assembly code used for? Ive been wondering why assembly was used and why java or c couldnt be substituted?

hallo,
We want to move the JNode in future as a MULTIUSER OS.So, there the files accessability is a interesting matter;for the security of the JNODE also...is not??

For near future for that we need to adopt the "POSIX ACL" .This is a ready option to us i think.

see the link http://www.suse.de/~agruen/acl/linux-acls/online/

Express your opinions freely now...because if we agree to use it, then we need to change in the codings of the FS commands in some portions now.At current, the all file access will be set to only the Superuser mode.

regards TANGO

When we are dealing with timestamps (created/modified), how should we handle timezones in the filesystem API (and maybe in JNode general)?

Now we are using long to get/set the date, and loose the timezone information.

IS0 9660 supports timezone, how is the timezone support in other filesystems?

Does anyone knows about these projects and their requirements to the JVM?

x86
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jpc/index.html

c64
http://www.jac64.com/

Atari ST
http://www.atari-st.lovely.net/

Nintendo
http://www.virtualnes.com/

ZX Spectrum
http://www.spectrum.lovely.net/