A completely-from-scratch hobby operating system
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#2How this compares with xv6 for first OS course purpose? Is it viable to use this to teach the same things? (Paging, inter process communication, threading...)
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#3Back in 2014 this was posted before, so before the first "release" version and when there were external dependencies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566217 (26 comments).
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#4I like that the main website looks like the OS itself!
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#5Under features, the first bullet point is "Dynamically linked userspace." Can someone say what this means? How is this different than a userspace made up of dynamically linked utilities and shell?
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#6I like that the main website looks like the OS itself! https://toaruos.org/
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#7Then why in the heck is he going for POSIX compatibility, when he can afford the luxury of not having to deal with blocking syscalls and all this crap?
Much easier and safer multithreading. Also faster.
And why we are there, why not a safer microkernel, keeping everything in userspace? Questions over questions.
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#8I like that the main website looks like the OS itself! https://toaruos.org/
Looks like the website has been hugged to death, for now.
I wonder if the web server is hosted on toarus?
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#9Then why in the heck is he going for POSIX compatibility, when he can afford the luxury of not having to deal with blocking syscalls and all this crap? Much easier and safer multithreading. Also faster. And why we are there, why not a safer microkernel, keeping everything in userspace? Questions over questions.
You can do all of this in your own hobby project.
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#10Then why in the heck is he going for POSIX compatibility, when he can afford the luxury of not having to deal with blocking syscalls and all this crap? Much easier and safer multithreading. Also faster. And why we are there, why not a safer microkernel, keeping everything in userspace? Questions over questions.
You need POSIX to compile nearly any program