rheise.os distribution 0.1.7

rheise.os is a free operating system designed to run Java software. At the moment, rheise.os must be run on top of an existing Java Virtual Machine (JDK 1.1 or higher). In the future, rheise.os will include its own JVM with special support for Java processes.

The purpose of this distribution is to provide a working configuration of rheise.os. It includes a sysv-style init program, a command-line shell, as well as a simple desktop environment.

License

Each program included this distribution is released under its own license, which is either the GPL or the LGPL. Please refer to the license included with each program for more details.

Running

To run rheise.os under UNIX, simply run the host.sh shell script included with this distribution. An optional init runlevel argument may be specified to boot into that runlevel. The available runlevels are configured in the os/system/inittab resource. For example, running "host.sh gui" will cause rheise.os to boot up into its desktop environment.

There is no equivalent Windows script, but it should be possible to manually configure the CLASSPATH to match host.sh.

Once rheise.os is started, it should boot into the shell. The shell supports the following commands: ls, cd, env, set, whoami, ps, pid, kill, pipe and shutdown. It will also execute any fully qualified class name given. An optional " &" (note the space) may be appended to a command to cause it to be run in the background.