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A New Operating System
- halo 18y agoHere's the basic problem: you're writing an operating system. Stop doing that. It's 2008.
- bprater 18y agoHey, it can be a good learning experience and just darn good hacker fun!
- neilc 18y agoI agree -- but this is a pretty content-free YC news story. This would be notable if the guy actually gets anywhere -- writing "I'm going to write a new OS" on your blog is the trivial part.
- mudge 18y agoYea, I agree.
- rglullis 18y agoIf you do agree, why did you post?
- rms 18y agoBecause he felt like submitting. This is not a big deal. Consider it a discussion thread with an incidental link.
- mudge 18y agoWell I think it is interesting. But I agree that it would be more particularly news worthy and notable if I had something more to show about it. I've been researching for 3 weeks and its going great.
- halo 18y agoMuch like writing a text editor?
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- rms 18y agoHow about an exokernel? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel
- mudge 18y agoYea, I've been thinking about that too.
- plinkplonk 18y ago"Yea, I've been thinking about that too" perhaps a separate post for that? seeing as this post seems to be essentially a content free "I am thinking about ... " ?
- mudge 18y agoHey man, a lot of code comes from thinking about things for awhile.
- plinkplonk 18y agothe problem is not with thinking about stuff. But if I were to write blog posts about "I am thinking about X" and then submit those posts to news.YC.. well. Let me not discourage you though. if you think your cogitations deserve the attention of the folks at news.YC, please, go ahead and submit one link per thought. News.YC is an essentially self correcting system, in my experience, and can probably handle such content free links just fine.
- davidw 18y agoThe problem is whoever voted it up. Would that we could unmask the bozos;-)
- davidw 18y ago(What's with all the downvoting of a comment that... while it might not really add anything, certainly isn't blatantly offensive or a troll ?)
- nuggien 18y agoWhy would you post a link to your blog promoting the fact that you're thinking about writing an OS? That's like me posting a link to my blog promoting a startup I haven't thought of the idea for yet.
- a-priori 18y agoI've been tinkering with operating system programming for a few years now (yikes, has it really been 5?) in my spare time. It's an interesting hobby, and I actually got a job partly because of it. :) I'm interested in hearing more about this project of yours, and possibly contributing to it.
- wmf 18y agoFor anyone interested in OSes, I recommend the EROS, Sun Spring, Singularity, and Synthesis papers; they are signposts outside the well-explored Unix/VMS territory.