MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering
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MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering
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Re: MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering
#2I came across this course after going through the 6.824 from RTM last year and enjoying the hands on approach a lot! Teaching using the xv6 OS (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html) is super valuable. I do not consider myself an expert in operating systems or C, but digging through the xv6 source code is quite fun, the code is easily readable and very newby friendly.
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Re: MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering
#4I came across this course after going through the 6.824 from RTM last year and enjoying the hands on approach a lot! Teaching using the xv6 OS ( https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html ) is super valuable. I do not consider myself an expert in operating systems or C, but digging through the xv6 source code is quite fun, the code is easily readable and very newby friendly.
Yes it's very readable and easy to understand. I had made a huge design mistake in my OS's scheduling which basically prevented any task from going to sleep but it was hard to understand what other way was there to do it. Reading xv6's source code saved me (and my OS) as the code was so clean that it was easy to understand the idea behind their scheduling and port that to another kernel that had otherwise nothing to do with xv6.
Re: MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering
#5I'm not familiar with xv6, but I remember using Pintos for my undergraduate level Operating Systems course around a dozen years ago.
I still chuckle at another student's description of the class... "a crash course in enabling and disabling interrupts in order to prevent segfaults and pagefaults.
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#6Good course.. thank god its open access
Re: MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering
#7I came across this course after going through the 6.824 from RTM last year and enjoying the hands on approach a lot! Teaching using the xv6 OS ( https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html ) is super valuable. I do not consider myself an expert in operating systems or C, but digging through the xv6 source code is quite fun, the code is easily readable and very newby friendly.
This has me reading the updated pdf discussing xv6 (riscv, 2021):
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.S081/2021/xv6/book-riscv-rev2.p...
So far, it is saying all the things that need to be said once, once, and very clearly.
Re: MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering
#8I came across this course after going through the 6.824 from RTM last year and enjoying the hands on approach a lot! Teaching using the xv6 OS ( https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html ) is super valuable. I do not consider myself an expert in operating systems or C, but digging through the xv6 source code is quite fun, the code is easily readable and very newby friendly.
My OS class at the University of Wisconsin used xv6. I love and hate that little operating system. My professor had actually taken the time to logically split all the source files into folders for their given purpose. When I found the original source and the flat structure, I died a little inside. There was no way I would be able to recreate a folder structure that would also successfully build with make. I tried and gave up in short order.
Re: MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering
#9My alma mater (Portland State) also used xv6 for its OS class, and it was excellent.
Re: MIT 6.S081 – Operating System Engineering
#10I'm not familiar with xv6, but I remember using Pintos for my undergraduate level Operating Systems course around a dozen years ago. I still chuckle at another student's description of the class... "a crash course in enabling and disabling interrupts in order to prevent segfaults and pagefaults.
Hah did you go to Berkeley? We're still using Pintos here.