EvanGr

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Minoca OS 0.4: We love the eighties(blog.minocacorp.com)
21 points by EvanGr 9y ago|1 comments
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by EvanGr 10y ago
OP here. Sciter looks cool, nice site too. Currently Minoca has support for a basic framebuffer, which we use to display our green terminal. Our biggest obstacle to having a GUI now is the lack of accelerated graphics drivers. We'd lik
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Minoca OS: A new open source operating system(blog.minocacorp.com)
711 points by EvanGr 10y ago|187 comments
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Show HN: Swiss – Unix in a Box for Windows and Minoca OS(github.com)
13 points by EvanGr 10y ago|0 comments
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by EvanGr 10y ago
We currently run on x86 PCs and a number of ARM SoCs (the linked page should give you an idea of which ones). Adding support for new SoCs and boards is pretty straighforward. Feel free to reach out to me directly with what you have in mind:
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by EvanGr 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We're optimistic about the idea of focusing on what can be gained by starting from scratch. Specifically by creating a modern API between the core kernel and device drivers, we think we can make interesting adv
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by EvanGr 10y ago
Not at the moment, but our interrupt overhead and number of background tasks is so low it's something we're thinking about. Is there a specific scenario you're trying to enable?
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by EvanGr 10y ago
Yes, you could use Minoca to manage GPIO and other low level hardware. One area where we're working to excel is power management. There's so little in the OS that we're able to go very idle, and stay there for long periods. A
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by EvanGr 10y ago
We're systems people, so we can help folks building new hardware devices with tasks like bring-up and sustained support. There's a stable kernel API, which makes component level updates within the kernel possible.
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by EvanGr 10y ago
We're hoping it can be, but we're also considering open sourcing it.
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by EvanGr 10y ago
It boots to a shell in about 5MB of RAM, with networking and USB. Both Linux and Minoca can get smaller than that depending on how much you're willing to strip. The goal was to start lean and clean and then go up or down depending on s
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Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch(minocacorp.com)
168 points by EvanGr 10y ago|42 comments