Yes, that's something I would have loved to have, a single language to
program everything, right from the drivers to user interface and
applications.
SqueakNOS looks very interesting, but still is way behind a combination
of Linux kernel + X + Pharo in terms of hardware support and maturity.
Also, in case you didn't know, there was an effort made to run Squeak
directly on bare metal (Mitsubishi M32R/D) which worked like a charm,
but has been suppressed for unknown reasons.
~Mayuresh
On 2014-09-20 01:00, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
The idea is to build a minimalist Linux based system which would boot
up
straight into a full-screen Pharo environment.
Why use a Linux underneath when you can do it in Smalltalk ;)
Look at SqueakNOS - an operating system that was/still is able to
boot from disk right into Squeak:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1762
Accessing devices/writing drivers in Smalltalk, etc.
Would like to know if it's some how possible to control external
programs from within Pharo, essentially shell scripts for network
setup,
etc.
Check out the "OSProcess" package in Pharo.
Bye
T.
