My new kayak - seayak

On june I've bought a new kayak, manufacturer wrote in his list of products that this is a seayak type.
Well, like my double seat kayak it's a folding boat. I like folding kayaks in case of their mobility and storing place.
At current moment I've already made a two tests - is a two cycles of build, and yes - it's a on-water test.
Firstly I will give a more information about seayak:
Length: 4.9 meters
Weight: 22 kg
Frames: 4
Shipped with steering.
First built was taken up to 3 hours! And it's typically for new folding kayaks from triton ltd.
On first contruction I've broken one of the details and I was need to make an ugly hack that I've showed on image below:
Manufacturer has changed this detail for free via guarantee.
All construction set are typically , excluding head profile - it looks like on seayaks.
Second construction goes well and takes up to 1 hour and 10 minutes (via kayak manual it should take 62 minutes).
Letters with name of kayak model was removed and I think about new, original name for this boat.
Like a good design it has on-top stuff for small things, gps and other useful things on water (pack for cigarets or tobacco pipe ;) )
Generally it's a good model - it has a good on water performance, not so hard to build (not on first construction process;) ), good profile (I've tested it on big open water with big waves).
Now I'm thinking about new name ... and some modification - I want to add new on top fixtures for other things.
Other photos you can look here and here.

SDK tools for OS development

New ideas came to my head, all about operating system features and development.

On last friday I decide to make some modifications on autotools stuff in GNU sed and try to compile it with Jari OS libc headers and functions. Yep - it's works! This means that our libc is ready for most of cases, many of them working now. This event gave me some new ideas about development tools for Jari OS: firstly I will port GNU gcc to Jari OS (I mean, that gcc will handle our ld scripts and libraries right, without many keys and other things), secondly I will construct SDK template (already done, but not publicied yet).
Also, to have a better support and big community additional feature needed - IDL integrated to SDK. Well, it's mean - that you have set of the templates for each type of service i.e. block device driver library, char device driver, file system and so on ...
In most cases you shouldn't known about specific internal things of system libraries, also you shouldn't care about interface changes (headers renaming, new functions, new order of calls and so on). This feature will generate libraries specific code in compile time and link your specific implementation. I.e. what will be written one time - will live all time ;)
For this feature it's better to use scheme (for templates, configs and other stuff) and some core of this will be written traditionally on C.

Jari OS going to be a completely OS

My last task in Jari OS project was symlinks supports, now I'm working on postponed logic in libv2 (general library for file system services).
I cannot be on track in changes ;) Now project has a POSIX, fork(), execve(), file systems, initial networking support.
On background I'm porting GNU coreutils to Jari OS, progress going fast, I think that alpha release will has many interesting stuff.
To be a fully featured OS not so many features need, our ext2fs support and IDE drivers are 80% completed.
I think that year of active development that will finished on 1-sep-2009 will made a first beta version with few drivers and networking support.
Now prject has one network device support (e1000) and Jari OS host (network service) replies on ICMP requests.
What about ELF support, now we're working on dynamic libraries support - it coming soon, currently only static ones supported.
Files i/o is ready, but maybe some functions (not often used ones) doesn't works properly. To make a fully featured shell pipes requered, and I'm working on it now.
I'm planning to implement shared memory fs and POSIX functions for it, in addition I will add Jari OS specific API for this, - for some internal purposes, for GIX(GUI service of Jari) like example.
After alpha release (1-jun-2009) I will take time for GIX implementation. Also - there are many porting tasks.
I hope community of open-source developers will be interested in new microkernel OS - it's a good field for research, development and it's good to take skills up-to-date.
So,