New Operating System and Kernel development

New Operating System and Kernel development

[Amar M. Singh]

Hello all,

  Is there any research into new Operating Systems and kernel
  development? I'd like to announce 'heh' that I'm starting on just
  such a project :)

  I have a few ideas about what i want to build but that's getting far
  ahead of myself, I think I should build it to run on Qemu or Xen
  hypervisor. The most dreaded thing i want to avoid is C or C++.  The
  source code shall go on to https://codeberg.org/nly. And always
  appreciate feedback, in the end I hope to make something that is
  usable and used rather than purely for amusement purposes :)

  Thank you for reading so far,
  ~amar

Re: New Operating System and Kernel development

[Pjotr Prins]

Hi Amar,

Did you study Hurd and other micro-kernel approaches? Some people
working on that here (though not me).

Pj.

On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 11:51:45AM +0000, Amar M. Singh wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>   Is there any research into new Operating Systems and kernel
>   development? I'd like to announce 'heh' that I'm starting on just
>   such a project :)
> 
>   I have a few ideas about what i want to build but that's getting far
>   ahead of myself, I think I should build it to run on Qemu or Xen
>   hypervisor. The most dreaded thing i want to avoid is C or C++.  The
>   source code shall go on to https://codeberg.org/nly. And always
>   appreciate feedback, in the end I hope to make something that is
>   usable and used rather than purely for amusement purposes :)
> 
>   Thank you for reading so far,
>   ~amar
> 

Re: New Operating System and Kernel development

[Gurjeet Singh]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 5:33 AM Amar M. Singh <nly@disroot.org> wrote:
>
>   appreciate feedback, in the end I hope to make something that is
>   usable and used rather than purely for amusement purposes :)

If you're interested in playing with some code/idea, even just for
your own amusement, don't let others' opinion stop you from doing
that. Success of any new work or idea are very slim, so if you try to
optimize for that, you might not get anything done at all.

Just my 2. bits.

Best regards,
--
Gurjeet Singh http://gurjeet.singh.im/

Re: New Operating System and Kernel development

[stuebinm]

Hi amar,

this is unrelated to GNU or Guix, but if you want to avoid C/C++ it may 
be worth taking a look at https://www.redox-os.org, which is written in 
Rust — of course there's also the GNU Hurd (and I'm sure many other 
projects), but this is the only one I'm aware of that has "avoid using 
C/C++" as one of its stated goals (apart from some more specific things 
like MirageOS, which uses OCaml a lot).

~stuebinm

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> Hello all,
> 
>    Is there any research into new Operating Systems and kernel
>    development? I'd like to announce 'heh' that I'm starting on just
>    such a project :)
> 
>    I have a few ideas about what i want to build but that's getting far
>    ahead of myself, I think I should build it to run on Qemu or Xen
>    hypervisor. The most dreaded thing i want to avoid is C or C++.  The
>    source code shall go on to https://codeberg.org/nly. And always
>    appreciate feedback, in the end I hope to make something that is
>    usable and used rather than purely for amusement purposes :)
> 
>    Thank you for reading so far,
>    ~amar