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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Mystilleef: "BeOS. So what do these hackers do? They write a kernel from scratch to mimick good ol BeOS. [...] Why not just use those already robust, stable and tested kernels?"
Mystilleef: "BeOS. So what do these hackers do? They write a kernel from scratch to mimick good ol BeOS. [...] Why not just use those already robust, stable and tested kernels?"
* Haiku are using NewOS kernel IIRC (still, Eugenia has a point http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8114)
* Cosmoe http://www.cosmoe.com/ (goes so far as to port stuff from those other BeOS wannabies who are starting lower and lower)
Just being pedantic, sorry.