The release of .NET-based microkernel Operating System

Posted on February 7, 2008
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Cosmos
Here is an interesting piece of news for all you .NET techies. Yesterday a .NET-based microkernel operating system was released by Chad “Kudzu” Hower, a former Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team member. It is named Cosmos, an acronym for C# Source Managed Operating System. Cosmos is an independent project from Microsoft and is released under the open-source license. That means it is available to everyone.

Where can you use Cosmos?
From what I read, you can boot Cosmos from a floppy or USB stick. Kudzu mentioned that you can try to put Cosmos and .NET on the Wii or OLPC (One Laptop Per Child PC) or the iPhone. With such a compact operating system, the possibility of running .NET on small handheld equipment is limitless.

Kudzu’s definition of Cosmos
Cosmos is a set of operating system legos written completely in C# that allow developers to easily build custom OSes with little OS experience by simply selecting new project in Visual Studio, then pressing F5 to build, deploy, and debug.