We are humble to announce that pyvm has reached milestone version 3.0. The URL is:
http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyvm-3.0/ The pyvm project explores an alternative direction in the use of dynamic languages (based on the python model) for the construction of a full userspace system. It might be worth to note that it does not have an conflict of interests with Python since this is an unstable experimental VM where new features are constantly added, revised or removed based on the needs of the codebase. On the contrary, it is more proof that python-based systems are not slow and one can do everything with them at the 1/100th of the code of traditional systems. Currently, in 80k lines of code one can find: web browser, font rasterizer (TTF & Type1), PDF viewer, git, PGP, SSH, windowing environment that can run on linuxfb, audio/video player (requires ffmpeg) and many other applications in compact simplified implementations -- all of which are used as feedback for testing and adding features to the VM. Feel free to check it out Nik Fotoulis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/