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This (HN news/Github project) title is awkward. Apparently, it's all about a new Operating System. However, I don't read much about kernels or shells but instea

by ktpsns 7y ago

This (HN news/Github project) title is awkward. Apparently, it's all about a new Operating System. However, I don't read much about kernels or shells but instead about assembler and particular features (?) such as "Track side effects in assembly language". Somehow the project lacks a short README or Abstract or list of goals. It's hard to get an overview without spending much time studying.

akkartik 7y ago
Author here. Thanks for the feedback! I seem to have conveyed exactly the wrong impression. Mu is at the moment not an OS but a userland, with some tiny fraction of libc redesigned so that programs tend to be easier to test. The eventual goal is a complete stack with its own OS, but Mu currently actually relies on a third-party OS kernel. You can package it up with either Linux or Soso (https://github.com/ozkl/soso https://github.com/ozkl/soso) Does this help? Let me think about how to make the prose clearer..
- minxomat 7y ago
  Hey thanks for chiming in. I discovered this on someone's tilde blog. If you can think of a more descriptive title, let me know and I'll update it.
  - akkartik 7y ago
    Thanks for the submission! I think I have bigger problems than the title ^_^ According to HN policy there's really not much you could do besides use the title I have. Could you point me at the tilde blog where you saw it? I'm on the tildeverse as well (https://lists.tildeverse.org/hyperkitty/list/tildeclub@lists.tildeverse.org/message/Z7EBQ2ZCBIQ7YMA7Q3RUJWWB4LBIFS3M https://lists.tildeverse.org/hyperkitty/list/tildeclub@lists...)
    - minxomat 7y ago
      Sorry I don't recall. I was in a random webring rabbit hole and don't feel like going through a hundred entries in my history :D. It was just a link though, with no note next to it.
    - dang 7y ago
      HN policy asks to rewrite misleading titles. Perhaps this one is misleading, to judge by the comments about it? In which case we can change it to something more accurate. We also often take an author's preferred HN title as long as it isn't baity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

by ktpsns 7y ago

akkartik 7y ago

Author here. Thanks for the feedback! I seem to have conveyed exactly the wrong impression. Mu is at the moment not an OS but a userland, with some tiny fraction of libc redesigned so that programs tend to be easier to test. The eventual goal is a complete stack with its own OS, but Mu currently actually relies on a third-party OS kernel. You can package it up with either Linux or Soso (https://github.com/ozkl/soso https://github.com/ozkl/soso) Does this help? Let me think about how to make the prose clearer..

minxomat 7y ago
Hey thanks for chiming in. I discovered this on someone's tilde blog. If you can think of a more descriptive title, let me know and I'll update it.
- akkartik 7y ago
  Thanks for the submission! I think I have bigger problems than the title ^_^ According to HN policy there's really not much you could do besides use the title I have. Could you point me at the tilde blog where you saw it? I'm on the tildeverse as well (https://lists.tildeverse.org/hyperkitty/list/tildeclub@lists.tildeverse.org/message/Z7EBQ2ZCBIQ7YMA7Q3RUJWWB4LBIFS3M https://lists.tildeverse.org/hyperkitty/list/tildeclub@lists...)
  - minxomat 7y ago
    Sorry I don't recall. I was in a random webring rabbit hole and don't feel like going through a hundred entries in my history :D. It was just a link though, with no note next to it.
  - dang 7y ago
    HN policy asks to rewrite misleading titles. Perhaps this one is misleading, to judge by the comments about it? In which case we can change it to something more accurate. We also often take an author's preferred HN title as long as it isn't baity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html