https://www.fiwix.org/news.html en-us RSS Feed provided by The Fiwix Kernel Project. https://www.fiwix.org/imgs/symbol.png https://www.fiwix.org/news.html https://www.fiwix.org/news/20251115.html FiwixOS 3.5 is a completely free, open source, UNIX-like hobby operating system based on the Fiwix kernel. This is a true self-hosting operating system, which means that all packages supplied (including the kernel) have been compiled natively and no other operating system has been used in the process. [...] Sat, 15 Nov 2025 11:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20241115.html FiwixOS 3.4 is a completely free, open source, UNIX-like hobby operating system based on the Fiwix kernel. This is a true self-hosting operating system, which means that all packages supplied (including the kernel) have been compiled natively and no other operating system has been used in the process. [...] Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20240830.html Since October 2022 the Fiwix kernel has been accepting patches that were necessary to be able to be compiled by TCC, a really small C compiler. This was a necessary step into the whole bootstrapping process of a complete Linux distribution. [...] Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20231115.html FiwixOS 3.3 is a completely free, open source, UNIX-like hobby operating system based on the Fiwix kernel. This is a true self-hosting operating system, which means that all packages supplied (including the kernel) have been compiled natively and no other operating system has been used in the process. [...] Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20230419.html Kexec is a mechanism that let's you switch into a different kernel without rebooting your machine. The new kernel can be another Fiwix kernel or any other ELF binary kernel. It currently only supports the Multiboot 1 Specification to be passed to the new kernel, but it's open to include support for other boot methods. [...] Wed, 19 Apr 2023 22:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20221122.html Since the beginning, the kernel has always used a very simple memory allocator (purely page based) because I wanted to focus on funcionality more than in efficiency. Due that most of the internal structures and arrays have a fixed size, such simple memory allocator has served well and has been enough for the majority of cases. [...] Tue, 22 Nov 2022 19:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20221115.html FiwixOS 3.2 is a completely free, open source, UNIX-like hobby operating system based on the Fiwix kernel. This is a true self-hosting operating system, which means that all packages supplied (including the kernel) have been compiled natively and no other operating system has been used in the process. [...] Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20220221.html During the last weeks I have been working to include support for the PCI local bus in the kernel and, at the same time, to improve the serial driver to also support PCI devices (only QEMU serial PCI at the moment), so I can test it easily. [...] Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20211211.html Due to an error during the packaging process, the GCC version included in the .iso and .raw images of FiwixOS 3.1 was unable to create executables. [...] Sat, 11 Dec 2021 17:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20211208.html FiwixOS 3.1 is a completely free, open source, hobby operating system based on the Fiwix kernel. This is a true self-hosting operating system, which means that all packages supplied have been compiled natively. All executables are linked statically. [...] Wed, 08 Dec 2021 09:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20201212.html FiwixOS 3 is a completely free, open source operating system based on the Fiwix kernel. The goal of this project is to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development is being done in a public repository. [...] Sat, 12 Dec 2020 15:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20200601.html Following what seems to be a requirement for every single hobby OS, Doom (the 1993 id Software FPS game) has been ported to FiwixOS. [...] Mon, 01 Jun 2020 09:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20200324.html FiwixOS 2 is a completely free, open source operating system based on the Fiwix kernel. The goal of this project is to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development is being done in a public repository. [...] Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20190110.html This is just a new floppy image example introducing the new support for an initial RAMdisk (initrd) image. [...] Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20180804.html This new release of the Fiwix Installation CDROM comes with new packages ported and improves a lot the UNIX-like experience with the support of the System V init scripts. [...] Sat, 04 Aug 2018 13:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20180503.html During the past days I've been working to successfully port the SVGAlib package in order to be able to run the old zgv picture viewer, and probably others. Such program doesn't need an X11 server to work, instead it relies on the SVGAlib library to show the pictures. [...] Thu, 3 May 2018 13:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20180423.html The wait is finally over! Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:00 +0100 https://www.fiwix.org/news/20180322.html This is hopefully the last version before the final 1.0.0, that's why it's also called the 1.0.0 Release Candidate. The kernel is now stable enough to be installed from either a floppy drive or an IDE/ATA CDROM drive. It's also enough advanced to be able to compile itself, which means that it reached the long-awaited state of self-hosting. [...] Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:00 +0100