Alan Cox announces Fuzix OS
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Alan Cox announces Fuzix OS
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Re: Alan Cox announces Fuzix OS
#2I was wondering what he was up to, he was working on Z80 support for pcc[1]. Which is maturing quite well; it can build a lot of the NetBSD kernel for example.
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#3The sardonic introduction and the fact that I initially misread his name as Alan Kay made this all the better for me, but then I came to my senses.
Alan Cox is just as interesting of a figure, though, and this is certainly a cool project. One might berate as to why we need another toy Unix, but I personally like having diverse itches scratched. Not to mention this might be an easier introduction to low-level OS hacking than having to deal with all the cognitive overhead of contributing to larger projects like Linux and the BSDs (and then a non-x86 arch is always nice).
Re: Alan Cox announces Fuzix OS
#4For those not familiar with the Linux kernel contributors, Alan Cox wrote large parts of the networking stack, was the maintainer of the 2.2 branch, and was commonly considered the "second in command" to Linus Torvalds at one point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox
Re: Alan Cox announces Fuzix OS
#5The sardonic introduction and the fact that I initially misread his name as Alan Kay made this all the better for me, but then I came to my senses. Alan Cox is just as interesting of a figure, though, and this is certainly a cool project. One might berate as to why we need another toy Unix, but I personally like having diverse itches scratched. Not to mention this might be an easier introduction to low-level OS hacki…
> Not to mention this might be an easier introduction to low-level OS hacking than having to deal with all the cognitive overhead of contributing to larger projects like Linux and the BSDs
Do you have an opinion on Minix, in this respect?
Re: Alan Cox announces Fuzix OS
#6I'm a computer science major in my senior year and I've always been interested in contributing to a big Open Source lowel level software project like this. However, I lack experience working on Operating Systems so have struggled with getting started. Would this be a good place to try getting involved?
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#7This is pretty exciting!
Re: Alan Cox announces Fuzix OS
#8When I first read this, I thought this was meant to be a sarcastic statement on SystemD haters, but this is for real? I would assume this is all geared to scratching some kind of retro computing itch?
Re: Alan Cox announces Fuzix OS
#9I'm a computer science major in my senior year and I've always been interested in contributing to a big Open Source lowel level software project like this. However, I lack experience working on Operating Systems so have struggled with getting started. Would this be a good place to try getting involved?
This is a great project, but it is most definitely retro-computing. If you're not interested in that area, then probably not.
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#10Now I really need to finish building my Z80 machine!