Lightwave

Lightwave was an OS family developed by the French team Luminary Labs, a subsidiary of Aurora Systems International.
== History ==
After the discontinuation of Orion OS, Aurora created a subsidiary that consisted of the main development team of Orion. The team then decided to create a new kernel loosely based on the previous OS called Fusion and then develop a new OS called Lightwave using that kernel. 
The main goals of the project were to create a new modular OS which would be used on machines produced by Aurora that had their own architecture and other hardware. The OS targeted both enterprise and home users.
The development started back in 2000 and the first release of Lightwave launched in 2001 with the name Lightwave Alps, inspired by the French Alps.
== Design & Features ==
=== Kernel ===
Lightwave used the Fusion kernel, an in-house kernel that used it's own architecture called Nexus. Fusion is considered to be a Hybrid kernel which combines advantages of a Monolithic Kernel and a Microkernel. Some of the main advantages of Fusion compared to other kernels of the time was it's modularity and performance. Fusion was developed to work with 2 CPUs in parallel.
=== Desktop and Graphics ===
==== Waver ====
Waver is the graphical engine used trough all Lightwave versions. It's responsible to control everything related to video and graphics. Waver is a critical piece of the OS, without it Lightwave can not render the desktop or output any video using a dedicated GPU. Waver was also responsible to manage graphic adapters drivers and manager OpenGL version and translate DirectX applications to the latter.
==== Pixel ====
Pixel is the Desktop Compositing Engine responsible to render the desktop using hardware acceleration which enables shadows, font anti-aliasing (using PurePoint technology), and desktop transitions.
=== Security ===
Lightwave came with some security layers and protections, however this depends on the version of Lightwave.
==== Lighthouse ====
Used on the first two versions of Lightwave. It was a security layer that ran in user mode that monitored system process for any modification made to them. It was somewhat effective at protecting system integrity however a carefully made malware could easily stop Lighthouse and destroy the system. Lighthouse was dropped in Lightwave Avignon in favour of a more advanced system called IronEye. However some special versions of Lightwave used Lighthouse instead of IronEye even after it's discontinuation.
==== IronEye ====
Developed after the discontinuation of Lighthouse and introduced with the release of Lightwave Avignon in 2003. There's not a lot information about the system. Every Lightwave version with IronEye included will show the IronEye badge in the bootscreen.
=== Hardware Support ===
Lightwave was originally developed to work with computers made by Aurora with the Aurora Nexus CPU architecture. However some version have been released to other architectures like Lightwave x64.
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