The version string still living in the source reads:
NOOVEX7 1.0 (VESA / GPU)This is the line where the fundamentals landed: VESA linear framebuffer graphics, the palette engine, the compositor with its back-buffers, the desktop shell, the setup wizard, the sign-in screen. The #ifdef NOOVEX7 branches are still in the kernel today — the codebase never abandoned it, it grew past it.
The detailed session record for this era is thinner than what came later, so this entry is deliberately short. What matters is that by the end of it, NoovexOS drew a desktop and let you log into it.