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New Ironclad Ada OS Kernel Distro Snapshot with MATE and Fastfetch(blog.ironclad-os.org)
4 points by mintsuki 1y ago|2 comments
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by mintsuki 1y ago
A new snapshot of the Gloire distro using the Ironclad OS/kernel written in Ada ( https://ironclad-os.org/ ) is out, featuring work on porting the MATE DE and fastfetch, amongst other things.
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by mintsuki 1y ago
Because they do know about them. At least some of them do, of course. Ideally, BIOS/CSM systems should not care about what type of partition table format a disk uses, and just boot by loading the boot sector (the 1st sector), and passi
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by mintsuki 1y ago
I know every word of what I said in the message you're replying to. While what you said is mostly accurate, as in MBR != BIOS and GPT != UEFI, never in my original message have I stated that that is the case. And the rest of what you s
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by mintsuki 1y ago
Indeed! Which is why the only portable solution is to not do this. For stuff that needs to be bootable by both BIOS and UEFI the only portable solution is to use MBR, not GPT. That means all legacy BIOS systems will boot it, and so will all
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by mintsuki 1y ago
That is a very niche use case, and also won't really work on most real BIOS machines as they actually check for a proper MBR and/or BPB (and no GPT), which is also why GPT on BIOS support is very spotty, since a lot of BIOSes will
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by mintsuki 1y ago
By spec, UEFI is required to support both MBR and GPT, so there is literally nothing stopping you from using MBR.
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by mintsuki 5y ago
I don't know much about nim but I have seen my fair share of Rust and Zig code. Out of these 2, I'd personally pick Zig if I had to choose. Rust's syntax doesn't resonate with me very much and I feel like it tries to han
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by mintsuki 5y ago
I basically said that V lends itself better to this kind of development; and the modular, headerless structure gets less messy than C codebases. I also said that while I was skeptical of V (I have read all the criticism many times and I was
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by mintsuki 5y ago
Hello, I am the maintainer of Vinix and main contributor. Feel free to ask me anything about the project!