Linked by Emmanuel Marty on Thu 2nd Sep 2004 07:36 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes As a programmer and manager of embedded software products for a living, I think that operating system programming is so much fun that it will eventually be outlawed. I've previously published two articles on OSNews, So, you want to write an operating system and Climbing the kernel mountain, and tried to summarize my experience in designing operating system kernels as well as technical traps that can be easily avoided.
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need new innovations...
by tech_user on Thu 2nd Sep 2004 09:46 UTC

it hasn't all been done before... and anyway the linux path seems to have narrowed... its branching factors limited...

there is is a need for new ideas and new ways of doing things ... but we are running into the limits of the inflexible i386 architecture...

i would even suggest amateur kernel hackers to develop thiers within a sandbox... like a JVM or similar.. to reduce the amount of less-interesting work that is aside from the issue they want to experiment with...

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