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DByteOS Personal Workspace Beta Foundation (v9.0.2)

Welcome to the Personal Workspace Beta Foundation milestone of DByteOS.

What is DByteOS?§

DByteOS is a Personal Computing Userland built on top of the DByte programming language and runtime. It provides a cohesive environment for file management, productivity, preferences, diagnostics, command discovery, and system exploration, all within a deterministic and host-runnable framework.

[!IMPORTANT] DByteOS Personal Workspace Beta Foundation is NOT a standalone operating system. It does not contain a kernel, bootloader, hardware drivers, or OS passthrough. It is a deterministic userland environment designed to run on top of Windows, Linux, or macOS through the DByte runtime.

Core Philosophy§

Determinism: Every system event, from boot logs to security denials, is reproducible.
Translucency: The system is designed to be inspected. Userland tools like inspect and perm allow you to see exactly how the system handles your data.
Portability: DByteOS lives in a single directory (examples/dbyteos/) and can be ported across any host running the DByte VM.

Current Status: Personal Workspace Beta Foundation§

As the v9.0.2 Personal Workspace Beta Foundation milestone, DByteOS includes the shell, package flow, manual pages, onboarding, profile/config/preferences, prompt integration, notes, journal, workspace projects, project tasks, services, diagnostics, snapshot, and simulated permission model. Future releases can build on this baseline without redefining the userland boundary.

SOURCE: DBYTEOS_ALPHA.md