http://codewars.osdever.net marks a new beginning in the OS Development Ring. A totally new idea of code wars? No, code wars aren’t any new idea(Allegro SpeedHack) but coding an OS in such a short time? Even at all. OS development is a relatively new and growing hobby for programmers. Now you have a chance to openly develop OS code, have it judged, and win Challenges.
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They don’t seem to have much by way of content… Cool idea though. I wonder how they will judge it?
How geeky do you get? It’s not like Code Wars wasn’t the epitome of geek…Code Wars OS?
I love it.
The site is barely a shell even. The rules are not yet mentioned nor does it mention what aspects of an Operating System will be judged.
I wouldn’t write a day’s worth of code until I knew the above. So many design factors cannot be finalized until the goal is known.
Anybody who can write assembler or C can make a multitasking command-line OS with the docs and tutorials that are out there these days. But how many people can write a small efficient OS that can solve today’s problems like the established ones do?
In other words…
1. Have a refined and fast GUI (no need for gradients or hardware rendering, just a GUI that has nice font rendering, spacing, coloring…)
2. Have a way to start apps, access system settings in under 2 mouse clicks and 3 mouse movements without requiring me to remember quickkeys or summoning hidden popup menus.
3. Have an understanding of how the user uses files so that the user need not dig down 10 levels of a folder hierarchy or have to look around on different drives for a file. Kind of like Piles/stacks where I can see documents/photos/music files etc… from a single window and filter out what I’m not interested in (while minimizing the effort of filtering as much as possible).
If people are entering this challenge to build the next linux forget it, we already have not one but many. It would be great to see somebody come up with an OS that makes it possible to use a computer without knowing how one works the same way one can drive a car without ever having looked under the hood. Then you’d have something on the big OS makers.
i have filled in the rules page and added the first challenge. We still need more judges. How many of you will actually apply?
Next linux? Hardly. Next OS? Nope. This is just a simple, fun, and most importantly educational competition. No profit or Linux-clone. (sigh of relief) Just a way to earn some head space and possibly uber-geek respect.
BTW, it is parts of an OS, not an entire OS. If we did an entire OS then the competition wouldn’t be fun for long.
good site -> a new idea, bring together a lot of OS coding stuff.