Software-update: Partition Logic 0.62

Op de site van Partition Logic is in de vorm van 0.62 een nieuwe versie van het programma uitgebracht. Partition Logic is een opensourceprogramma om partities op harde schijven te beheren. Het programma is op een bootflop of -cd te zetten en wordt vervolgens in het eigen ontwikkelde Visopsys-besturingssysteem opgestart. Versie 0.62 is via deze pagina in verschillende edities te downloaden, waaronder een imagebestand om op cd te branden en als image voor op een floppy. De floppyversie kan in Windows via RawWrite op de diskette worden gezet. De voglende verandeirngen zijn doorgevoerd in de nieuwe Partition Logic:

Overview: This is a maintenance release. New features include basic USB controller support, a USB mass-storage driver, device hotplugging, and Qemu support.

• Implemented basic USB support for UHCI controllers.
• Implemented a SCSI driver that can support USB mass storage devices.
• Added basic hot-plugging support for devices.
• Implemented a proper kernelBus top-level infrastructure for use by the PCI driver, USB driver, etc.
• The display devices and text console drivers are now initialized separately and before other hardware, so that hardware detection messages can be shown while detection is going on.
• The 'computer' program now continuously scans for new disks.
• The 'iconwin' and 'filebrowse' programs now change the mouse pointer when they're busy loading up a file or program.
• The 'iconwin' program now continues silently when programs or icons specified in the config file are missing.
• The boot menu now has a default selection and timeout period (settable by the 'bootmenu' program).
• There is now an 'active menu' global window system variable so that the focused menu can always be on top, and always go away then it loses focus.
• Fixed: Booting failed on Qemu due to a PS/2 mouse driver hang.
• Fixed: The 'bootmenu' program failed to run from a read-only media.
• Fixed: The boot menu timer was counting down too quickly.
• Fixed: The 'defrag' program was giving "can't defrag filesystem type 'unknown'" messages for things like floppies that hadn't been mounted.
• Fixed: The kernelDiskGetMediaState() function was returning 0 for flash disks

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