Career advice, please help

I want to become a kernel programmer. Proprietary, open source, microkernel, macrokernel, any will do. I wanna get my hands dirty on the lowest possible operating system level. Any advice?

I hear herd needs some work

>>herd

durp durp hurd

>>3
lrn2prog newfag. prog has it's own official spellings for certain technical terms/languages/kernels/products etc.

>>4
What the fuck did I just read?

Anonix could use a hand

I heard this guy Linus has a nice kernel...

>>7
you heard wrong

>>1
if I were to get into kernel development, I'd look into some cool research project.  I think regular unixlike kernels or systems with similar feature sets and C implementation (NT) are boring and mostly a "solved problem", with slightly different kernels (Xnu from OS X) being only slightly less boring.

If you like Lisp you can take a look to Movitz: http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/ although the development is stagnant.

QNX is cool - it's a *nix microkernel that's fast enough to be a Real-Time OS, and they've ported pkgsrc to it.  Anyone have a source repo for it?

I would start by learning C and assembly

Hello everybody out there!

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)


PS. Yes it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

>>13
do you have a link?

>>14
ftp.funet.fi

>>15
Thanks!

>>13
Why hello there Linus

>>17
WHO TOLD YOU!?

>>18
Your kernel is shit, and will amount to nothing.  Microkernels are the wave of the future, and not everybody can afford a 386 anyways!

>>19
Hey buddy,
Fuck you.

>>13
I think you misspelled "protable" there.

>>19
Abstract Syntax Tree?

>>21
your fucking gay

>>13
LOL WHAT A NOOB!

>>22
Andrew S Tannenbaum - creator of Minix and disparager of monolithic kernels since the early '80's.  He also doesn't seem to get that most people will do anything for a faster computer, thus rendering his microkernels a niche market.  A real-time capable microkernel, like QNX Neutrino, is fine, since that can obviously get shit done.

>>25
Actually no. Most people want something fashionable then reliable.

Real-time refers to the guarantee that the kernel will respond to events, real-time doesn't mean in terms of getting things done.

>>23
What about my gay?

>>27
He's fucking

>>28
Well that's rude of him, not to invite >>27-kun to take part in the intercourse.

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