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SHOW HN2013
How HN took it
17 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.52.
Execution: 3 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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Impressive achievement for a high school student
From 4 comments
I can barely do the most basic tasks in programming and you wrote an OS in high school? Bravo.
ancarda on HNBravo indeed! I only started programming in my senior year of high school. I wanted to write an operating system for my senior project, but I thought that was WAY too ambitious.…
Elzair on HNAnd thus begins the successor to Linux.
quaunaut on HNThis just makes me feel inadequate...you wrote this in highschool? How old where you back then if I may ask and what made you take the challenge? Also, how does one even start to…
rsmaniak on HN
Inspiring and educational to build an OS
From 2 comments
Nice! And I wouldn't call it "very basic". It's inspiring to see how far you've gone, even at such a young age. I took a shot at os development and it took me almost a month of…
r4pha on HNI too wrote unix like kernel when I was student (around 8-9 years ago). My kernel was also in C++ and and little bit of asm (nasm) It was very fun experience. Probably that was…
rajeevk on HN
Objections
Code quality is rough and not very pretty
From 2 comments
"This code was written several years ago as one of my first projects when I was in High School so it's normal if some parts of the code looks like "crap"." In other words: "I'm…
bitwize on HNIt took me like a year to really understand how everything works and come to this version (it was 4 years ago). I really learned C/C++ (and some assembly) with doing this, so I…
SamyPesse on HN
Build fails on Linux due to Makefile casing and C++ errors
From 2 comments
I'm having trouble compiling this. ``` freefull@freefull-hp ~/c/o/devos> make all Building Kernel make -C ./kernel make[1]: Entering directory…
FreeFull on HNWell, on my system (Ubuntu) at least this is not the case and renaming the files gets past the errors and on to actual build errors: ``` runtime/cxx.cc:74:41: error: ‘operator…
GaveUp on HN
Requests
Step-by-step instructions for getting it running
From 1 comment
You are completely right. It is the same with giving discounts on products or services, you devaluate what you are providing. I wouldn't even know where to get started on…
mosselman on HN
Boot in Qemu works
From 1 comment
The compile/build works fine now (check out my commits). However what does not yet work is booting the image with Qemu.
AaronO on HN
Questions
How to start writing an OS from scratch
From 1 comment
This just makes me feel inadequate...you wrote this in highschool? How old where you back then if I may ask and what made you take the challenge? Also, how does one even start to…
rsmaniak on HN
Why C++ rather than C
From 1 comment
Why did you decide to do it in C++ and not C?
Moral_ on HN
Alternatives named
xv6 teaching OS from MIT
From 2 comments
I wouldn't even know where to get started on building an OS http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6/book-rev7.pdf
sillysaurus2 on HNI looked at the teaching kernels xv6 from MIT, and Pintos from Stanford. They are both x86, and I've heard the same sentiment that you express, which makes me a bit hesitant to…
chubot on HN
Pintos from Stanford
From 1 comment
I looked at the teaching kernels xv6 from MIT, and Pintos from Stanford. They are both x86, and I've heard the same sentiment that you express, which makes me a bit hesitant to…
chubot on HN
OSDev wiki and forum
From 1 comment
I attempted the very same in my first year of college (in the UK, so about the same age). I only got as far as a memory manager, FAT16 filesystem driver and basic bootloader…
alexjeffrey on HN