ddevault

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by ddevault 11y ago
Well, from a design and usability perspective, KnightOS is much more sophisticated. It supports multitasking and has a package manager and so on. That being said, there is poor support for math (yeah, really). I want to polish that up until
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by ddevault 11y ago
Lead dev and project founder of KnightOS here. Nice to see it on HN again :) Happy to answer questions.
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Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects(drewdevault.com)
886 points by ddevault 11y ago|484 comments
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by ddevault 11y ago
I almost always get an interview, which almost always leads to an offer, and my resume is laid out so that open source takes up 2/3 of the page. http://irc.sircmpwn.com/Drew-DeVault-CV.pdf
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KnightOS – An open-source OS for calculators(knightos.org)
148 points by ddevault 12y ago|20 comments
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by ddevault 12y ago
All software related to security should be open source. This particular piece of software doesn't sit at a crucial point in a secure system, but a greater deal of transparency would be appreciated. I personally avoid using closed-sourc
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by ddevault 12y ago
If any terraform folks are watching this, I have a little feedback on the home page. When I first got there, it wasn't apparent that I could scroll, and I thought I had to sit through the flashy animation before I could see anything. W
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by ddevault 12y ago
Runs best on wabbitemu, but you'll need wine to use it on Linux. We're working on a new emulator, maybe you'd like to help? https://github.com/KnightOS/z80e
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by ddevault 13y ago
I never thought I'd see my blog on HN. Hope you liked this post. FWIW, this is my first venture into kernels, and I've made a lot of mistakes. In fact, this project is on the fourth rewrite and its followers are desperately trying
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by ddevault 13y ago
Author here. The `xor a` was important - it pretended no key was pressed. I'm familiar with conditional RET. Thanks for the rest of your kind words, though.
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by ddevault 13y ago
The attention-grabbing equals symbols come off as spammy and underhanded.