Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
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Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
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Re: Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
#2Why not MINIX?
Re: Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
#3For those interested in a slightly more readable code and modern build system, shameless plug of my attempt at some xv6 modernization: https://github.com/NewbiZ/xv6
Re: Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
#4Excellent. I'm working on a local undergraduate class chain to reach Compiler, Operating System and Computer Graphics. The school is peanut comparing to MIT so we don't have difficult labs as in MIT or Berkeley's courses. I'll take MIT's after I get the basics from my university. Hopefully this can smooth the cliff a bit.
Re: Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
#5Related:
Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680109 - Oct 2020 (69 comments)
Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24567993 - Sept 2020 (21 comments)
Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22511569 - March 2020 (32 comments)
Xv6 for RISC-V - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21040057 - Sept 2019 (8 comments)
Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17592560 - July 2018 (79 comments)
Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10798523 - Dec 2015 (14 comments)
Xv6 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10566312 - Nov 2015 (47 comments)
Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning Operating Systems with xv6? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8877714 - Jan 2015 (1 comment)
Xv6 – A Simple Unix-Like Teaching Operating System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8620589 - Nov 2014 (28 comments)
Xv6 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7558081 - April 2014 (36 comments)
Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971127 - Dec 2013 (78 comments)
Xv6 - Unix V6 rewritten in modern, ANSI C for MIT 6.828 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753216 - March 2012 (14 comments)
Unix v6 Ported to ANSI C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3212515 - Nov 2011 (50 comments)
Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2335824 - March 2011 (4 comments)
Re: Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
#6Why not MINIX?
MINIX isn't very Unix-like
Re: Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
#7I'm working my way through this[1] operating systems book and a few of the exercises[2] require customizing and compiling Xv6. It's so cool to code your own scheduler or syscall and see it working on a actual OS.
[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ [2] https://github.com/remzi-arpacidusseau/ostep-projects
Re: Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
#8Why not MINIX?
I don't know quite what you mean? MINIX isn't free, which is pretty big for a student project. In fact people may have started a similar project(not big like GNU) to due to its price.
Re: Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
#9Excellent. I'm working on a local undergraduate class chain to reach Compiler, Operating System and Computer Graphics. The school is peanut comparing to MIT so we don't have difficult labs as in MIT or Berkeley's courses. I'll take MIT's after I get the basics from my university. Hopefully this can smooth the cliff a bit.
go bears
Re: Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
#10Why not MINIX?
I don't know quite what you mean? MINIX isn't free, which is pretty big for a student project. In fact people may have started a similar project(not big like GNU) to due to its price.
It's equivalent to 3-clause BSD.
https://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=www:documentation:licens...