ToAruOS: A Hobby Kernel & User-Space, Runs Mesa & GCC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ToAruOS: A Hobby Kernel & User-Space, Runs Mesa & GCC

ToAruOS is a hobby kernel and user-space that can form a working operating system with some common open-source third party libraries. ToAruOS has been in development for nearly four years and was born at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgzMTk

[GraysonPeddie]

RPG demos... Interesting.

[nevion]

RPG demos... Interesting.

more interesting that it's an os titled and slightly themed towards a certain lightnovel series/anime

[Steffo]

So much man power only for copying something existing?! It's wasted time! Why not a microkernel or hybrid kernel or other more advanced technologies?

[BSDude]

So much man power only for copying something existing?! It's wasted time! Why not a microkernel or hybrid kernel or other more advanced technologies?

Time is not wasted if it's spent on something worthwhile. For the individual(s) behind this project it has been about understanding how an operating system works. The next project might as well be creating a microkernel. The next thing you know, these individuals will start to contribute to a Linux kernel subsystem. Who are you to decide what they should spend their time on?

[TheBlackCat]

So much man power only for copying something existing?! It's wasted time! Why not a microkernel or hybrid kernel or other more advanced technologies?

This is exactly the argument used against Linux when it first started.

[dstaubsauger]

Phoronix: ToAruOS: A Hobby Kernel & User-Space, Runs Mesa & GCC

[...] hobby kernel and user-space that can form a working operating system [...]

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgzMTk

I bet it's not gonna become "big and professional like gnu" ^^

[Steffo]

This is exactly the argument used against Linux when it first started.

But it's not the same situation! Minix was only for teaching. Unix was incredible expensive and BSD had copyright issues. Linux is for free and everyone can work on it to improve it.

[GraysonPeddie]

Time is not wasted if it's spent on something worthwhile. For the individual(s) behind this project it has been about understanding how an operating system works. The next project might as well be creating a microkernel. The next thing you know, these individuals will start to contribute to a Linux kernel subsystem. Who are you to decide what they should spend their time on?

Don't get me wrong, but in my opinion, some people in the open source community are closed-minded. Understanding how an operating system works and sharing a project out to the world is a good thing.

[log0]

But it's not the same situation! Minix was only for teaching. Unix was incredible expensive and BSD had copyright issues. Linux is for free and everyone can work on it to improve it.

There is still a huge difference between working on your own code and contributing to an existing project "to improve it".

And this is the point why I personally like such projects. They can start with a clean sheet, play around with things, try different approaches and maybe come up with something interesting.