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How did you have time to work on it when you were a grad student?
by anon_d 16y ago
How did you have time to work on it when you were a grad student?
- anant 16y agoBy convincing the right people that it was relevant to my course :) Also, Glendix was the culmination of my Bachelor "major project". Yes, it is sometimes possible to do useful work in academia. Gasp!
- anon_d 16y agoI'm finishing my bachelors next spring, and I would kill to work on Glendix or Plan 9. Suggestions?
- anant 16y agoPorting one of the fine Plan 9 based filesystems to Linux seems like an excellent operating systems project. This would directly benefit Glendix as many applications require these synthetic filesystems provided by the Plan 9 kernel. /net is a good example of how sockets are done away with, and /dev/draw provides a useful graphics API. You could argue in your project thesis that filesystems sometime provide a better abstraction than traditional programming-language based APIs; and prove it by porting one such filesystem over to Linux.
- anon_d 16y agoProject thesis Unfortunately, I've already done my senior project. Though, I'd be happy to hack on Glendix stuff in my free time. /net I've not done any network or kernel programming, and I'm only slightly familiar with /net. If I wanted to hack on this, where would you recommend I start? It seems like a Glendix /net could be implemented in user space. Yes?