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The ToaruOS project began in December 2010 and has its roots in an independent student project. The goals of the project have changed throughout its history, initially as a learning experience for the authors, and more recently as a complete, from-scratch ecosystem.
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-ToaruOS is currently in the 1.6.x series, which represents the merging of a project (the "NIH" branch) to replace Newlib, the third-party C standard library employed by earlier versions of the operating system, with a new, in-house libc.
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+The 1.6.x release series represented the merging of a project (the "NIH" branch) to replace Newlib, the third-party C standard library employed by earlier versions of the operating system, with a new, in-house libc. With the ports of Python and GCC to this new C library completed, this project has been concluded and considered as success.
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+The current release series is 1.7.x, which aims to eventually replace all third-party elements of the build process and make the OS fully self-hosting.
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## Features
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The following projects are currently in progress:
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-- **Improve POSIX coverage** especially in regards to pipelines, process groups, synchronization primitives, as well as by providing more common utilities.
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+- **Improve POSIX coverage** especially in regards to signals, synchronization primitives, as well as by providing more common utilities.
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- **Continue to improve the C library** which remains quite incomplete compared to Newlib and is a major source of issues with bringing back old ports.
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- **Implement a native dynamic, interpreted programming language** to replace Python, which was used prior to ToaruOS 1.6.x to provide most of the desktop environment.
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- **Replace third-party development tools** to get the OS to a state where it is self-hosting with just the addition of a C compiler.
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+- **Implement a C compiler toolchain** in [toarucc](https://github.com/klange/toarucc).
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## Building / Installation
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