http://www.osnews.com/story/19761/Help_Us_Update_Our_OS_Resources_Page Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:11:57 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?314863 http://osnews.com/thread?314863 Tanenbaums book are well written, but largely irrelevant.

There are tons of good OS books out now... so let the OS Resource update fest begin. Mon, 19 May 2008 19:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (primelight@live.com) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314864 http://osnews.com/thread?314864 As for the "How to Write Your Own OS" section, why not just link to the osdev.org wiki? Insanely stupid to maintain two such resources.Edited 2008-05-19 19:22 UTC Mon, 19 May 2008 19:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (primelight@live.com) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314867 http://osnews.com/thread?314867 You bring up an important point. It's not necessary to reinvent the wheel. However, if several people are working on competing types of wheels, I'd like to link to both of them. Mon, 19 May 2008 19:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314871 http://osnews.com/thread?314871 AFAIK (And I've been osdeving for a few years now.), osdev.org is the only actively maintained wiki on the web. The other two resources (BF and OSRC) are not of the same type of 'wheel', so there isn't any competition between them.Edited 2008-05-19 19:50 UTC Mon, 19 May 2008 19:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Alboin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314883 http://osnews.com/thread?314883 Oh I don't think that's fair. OS Design & Implementation is still used heavily in university OS courses, and Modern Operating Systems is a good, broad book all 'round. Don't think it's not relevant because OS Design covers a microkernel. The core concepts are still perfectly valid. Mon, 19 May 2008 20:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Vanders) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314885 http://osnews.com/thread?314885 Other than bookmarking http://www.osnes.com/resources , how do users normally navigate to this page? Mon, 19 May 2008 21:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314889 http://osnews.com/thread?314889 I remember back when i first discovered OSNews, it was only for it's Res. Page, and i used it extensively to learn about alternative OSes. Mon, 19 May 2008 21:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SoloDeveloper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314894 http://osnews.com/thread?314894 That's the point - I removed the link because the page was so stale and we'd like to relink it from the navbar. Mon, 19 May 2008 22:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314902 http://osnews.com/thread?314902 There's already web site called OSLiving.com that is pretty much what you're aiming to create as far as "listing open source operating systems" goes. It doesn't really attempt to list books and stuff though.

Anyway, it's relatively new, but it's already been Dugg a couple times, and has a pretty nice setup.

In the interest of full disclosure, I've written for the blog part of their web site, but the "main part" of the web site is definitely the index of open source projects.Edited 2008-05-20 03:09 UTC Tue, 20 May 2008 03:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (squarebottle) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314911 http://osnews.com/thread?314911 So, what are we aiming at? A list of relevant current OS projects would be nice, perhaps. I have > 100 OS links in my browser, but I can hardly just dump everything. Listing OSes should imho also be catagorized (e.g. POSIX on PC, Amiga, embedded, etc.).


JAL Tue, 20 May 2008 09:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jal_) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314932 http://osnews.com/thread?314932 But this isn't just about Open Source. So while there may be some overlap, it will also have resources for non open source operating systems. Tue, 20 May 2008 13:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aesiamun) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314955 http://osnews.com/thread?314955 I would maybe like to see a list of self-directed educational OS projects, such as GeekOS. (http://geekos.sourceforge.net/). I worked through a couple of the projects and found them to be very helpful in expanding my basic understanding of OS concepts.

Anyone know of any other such projects? PintOS also comes to mind, but I haven't had the opportunity to try it out. Tue, 20 May 2008 19:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rexstuff) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314958 http://osnews.com/thread?314958 Check out the first part of what I wrote. Tue, 20 May 2008 20:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (squarebottle) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314962 http://osnews.com/thread?314962 Hey, where's the post from our resident Losetheos patron? Tue, 20 May 2008 21:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314968 http://osnews.com/thread?314968 Yes, we would like a list of all relevant OS projects. If you don't have the time to add all the links if your bookmarks to the wiki, please email us the list and I'll go through it and add them.

Yes, and I think categorizing them is a great idea. Tue, 20 May 2008 22:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?314998 http://osnews.com/thread?314998 http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Projects
http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Resources
http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Books

In the interest of being bold...
Keep the page as a wiki so it never gets out of date again. Or the content of the page could be created by exporting content from the OSDev.org wiki. Wed, 21 May 2008 05:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chase@osdev) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?315136 http://osnews.com/thread?315136 At the time of this post, OSDev.org forums are offline. DB error. Wed, 21 May 2008 20:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Shannara) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?315188 http://osnews.com/thread?315188 When did you see the DB problem? I had to restart the DB for the first time the day before your post. Have you seen problems since?

chase@osdev.orgEdited 2008-05-22 03:28 UTC Thu, 22 May 2008 03:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chase@osdev) Comments