The last few days we've been looking at the issue list of Google Code and we decided that as of today we'd use the list of issues in favor of flyspray. Google Code's Issue list provides us with extended functionality Firefly doesn't provide, like for example integration with the version control where we can close issues from svn commit messages. The issue history has been moved to Google Code and we're ready to start using our new bug tracking system!

You can find more information about Google's IssueTracker at http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/IssueTracker.

The sun shines outside: summer is coming! Most of us are packing to leave for a well-deserved holiday somewhere on an unknown island not be mentioned here ;-) Anyway, work has already started on the next release, and maybe we'll have our 0.0.4 ready end of this month. I wish everyone a happy holiday, and meanwhile enjoy our news entry on OSNews.com!

This version includes a new filesystem written from scratch: LinnFS. It is roughly based on the Extended FileSystem. It is now used as the root filesystem on the LiveCD instead of Ext2. Additionally, the notion of current directory has been implemented. Finally, this release has also been tested on the latest Nexenta distribution.

Today, the website has been successfully moved to TransIP!

This version contains bugfixes, enhancements and new minor features. The system can now be compiled on many recent host platforms, including various Linux distrubitions (Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora), FreeBSD 7.2, OpenBSD 4.5, NetBSD 5.0, DragonFly BSD 2.2.1, StormOS and OpenSolaris 2009.06. Several new functions where added to the libraries including the fork() POSIX-1.2008 function, which is now used to fork server processes into the background. Additionally a working URI parser was added to libparse. Finally, in this release the Ext2Create program was added to generate new Extended 2 FileSystems as a regular user, and replaces the external dependency on genext2fs. Also see the full ChangeLog for details.

End of this week the website, including bugtracker, will move to our new hosting provider: TransIP. It may happen that the website and/or bugtracker will be temporarily unavailable during the time it is moved to TransIP.

We have moved our SVN repository to Google Code, as it provides us with a huge storage capacity (1G), reliability and hopefully good uptimes, which svn.hunix.nl may not be able to provide at all times. Because the repository has changed and we used svnsync to import the project into Google Code, you need to get a fresh checkout of the repository. (Note that svn switch .relocate does not work in this case):

$ svn checkout http://freenos.googlecode.com/svn FreeNOS

Yesterday, 13th of June 2009, we released the first version of FreeNOS! It was announced on Freshmeat.net most of the day, on top of the page :D We got about ~400 projects clicks, ~150 URL clicks, and ~30 downloads: not bad! Visit our Freshmeat project page here.