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Kernel version 0.6.2

30-Nov-2009
While waiting for the next 0.6.3 from which I plan to make a whole rewrite of the context switch procedure and process scheduling, I present this new release which includes two new supported system calls sys_times and sys_ustat.

It also includes a fix in the ide_busy() function and improved support in the accounting values of each process.

Kernel version 0.6.1

24-Apr-2009
This version includes some basic enhancements that are necessary to improve other kernel parts in the near future. One of those enhancements is the new minimal support for the parallel port line printer driver (/dev/lp0), that will help to debug kernel messages during the adaptation of the X Window System support.

Among the new remount capability in the sys_mount() system call, this version includes a bit more of new support in the procfs filesystem with the inclusion of the /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/interrupts, /proc/meminfo and /proc/stat files. With the existence of those new files, now there are some programs that don't complain anymore and execute correctly. One of them is the top applet of the Busybox (included in the floppy image).

Finally many part of the kernel code has been improved and rewritten and some important bugs were fixed, making this version a bit more stable than its predecessor.

As always the Changelog has all the details.