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Aura M2 Coming Soon!
Aura OS Milestone 2 is coming soon. It features a new dock, a new boot screen, faster boot process, and networking support. More features will be announced soon.
*IMPORTANT*
This release of Aura will be the last Open-Source release. After this release, Aura will be under a new license and closed source. This is only to limit abuse of Aura Copyrights.
A the old license is not the only thing out the door, the DOS kernel is done as well. After M2 we will be using a new Kernel that is based on NT which makes for a more stable, and functional system.
Thanks for your support,
Chase
Instead you’re using on NT based kernel (this is to avoid infringement) you are able to use ReactOS (an NT based kernel with open source). I tried running SkyFireOS (openPine GUI/Seal based) and it is running quite good..
Don’t you use SEAL as the base to your GUI? I think it’s GPL licensed and as I understand it if you use it’s code then you can’t release your modifications under different terms, however I am not a lawyer and my understandings of licensing is limited.
I think that closing your source is a mistake however, as I’ve been thinking of working on a fork of SEAL lately, to brush up my C skills and because it’s probably a more realistic approach to GUI design than BASIC. Protecting your work is important and all, but if no one uses it, who cares that you made it? People forking your work can only lead to your work gaining more notice, just my 2 cents.
Seal is not the base of our GUI. Aura started out with Ozone GUI. But over the period of development, we have almost rewritten the entire system. The last things to be rewritten are the base files (the kernel and drivers) which are currently in the form of a DOS application. By transforming it into a NT Kernel, the last piece of Ozone will be replaced and this thing will be all Aura. As for the closed source, I simply would like Aura to stay Aura. I understand your point however I don’t want people branching off into sub groups of my system. Of course I will release an SDK with all the APIs and tools necessary to create Aura applications. Drivers and themes may be also supported by the SDK. Which essentially allows the user to setup their system as needed and customize their themes.
Thanks for your interest in Aura.
@Everyone – keep it free at least. The licenses thingy; just refer to their creators, no doubting the license. As an example: ReactOS ( ) is using NT-based kernel, sure it is an open source, still, but the uses of the software is allowed by green light from Windows NT developer. So, if you want to do something, you might try contacting the developers not refering their patents.
basically because freedos is a replacement for MSDOS it also (this goes without saying) has the same pitfalls and problems which caused its MS-DOS’s death in the first place..
the best logical replacement is a NT kernel which is a dos-compatible system.
freedos should really have been more like reactOS but without the GUI just a commandline & the ability to load a gui.
as i have been working on the doscore distro since its conception even i am sad to leave the freedos family.
SDK is going to be very essential!, we will have the desktop completed and hopefully orchid (web browser) and a simple FTP program and an SDK to develop your own apps.
myself, i will still offer support for AURA (freedos).
Right now there are two ways to obtain the “NT-based” kernel, LUK and ReactOS. Both opensource and GPLed. Hence, any use of those codebases without providing your own sources is a license infringement. Is your NT-based kernel capable of running Windows applications and drivers? Or perhaps you are just using the general NT-family model in your own kernel?
Any idea on Milestone 2?
Soon haha the only thing left is the Browser (Orchid). I am currently working on it now. It only displays text but the point is demonstrate the new Network system as well as the ability to download documents and parse them.