Bona Fide OS Development

[K.J.]

Okay, one of our web hosts still has FTP access disabled so the site can't be updated.

The other web host that contains the downloads is doing a server upgrade so the downloads are unavailible.

It has come very apperant to me that we need to have this website on a paid for host or on someone's own box. If anyone is interested in donating space/hosting Bona Fide OS Development, please email at [email protected]

The only requirerments are at least 10 meg space, PHP support, and at least 200 meg traffic per month allowed. A long address is okay, as a redirection service can be used to shorten it.

K.J.

[K.J.]

AT LAST!
The web host fixed their database problems and I have finally updated Bona Fide OS Development:
http://osdev.redir.net

* After several weeks, the site is now updated and has a whole new look. Congratulations go to citizen486 for winning the logo contest
* Added several new Tutorials and and Docs
* Added several new links
* You can chat in the IRC OS Development Chatroom via your browser
* Added a new example kernel in the Downloads section

K.J.

Note: some of you have emailed me suggestions for the site and/or the site's tutorials/documents. I will get to working on those requests ASAP.

[K.J.]

An update is planned for Friday. At least 1 new tutorial will be added and some things will be updated.

The downloads are currently unavailible(as is the Tech News). They should be up by Friday. If there is one that you would like, please send an email to [email protected] requesting it.

K.J.

[K.J.]

I just finished updating the site:
* Added a new tutorial and a new doc to the Tutorials & Docs section
* Added a few new links

http://osdev.redir.net

And yes, the Making a Simple C Kernel with [tt]clearscreen[/tt] and [tt]printf[/tt] Functions is up!

K.J.

[K.J.]

BTW, the email updates work again.

K.J.

[Tim]

KJ, you've got a very strange printf function ???
You seem to be using k_printf("this is a newline: /n"). While there's nothing wrong with parsing your own control characters, it seems much better to get the C compiler to do it for you.

If you use "this is a newline: \n", the '\n' gets treated as a single character, and turns into an ASCII newline character in the EXE. So in your printf, you just need to check for the '\n' character (and not '/' followed by 'n'). '\n', '\r', '\t' and others are part of the ISO standard and should be documented with your character.

Anyway, the Bona Fide site looks pretty good overall, and there's some good content (which sets it apart from a lot of the other OS sites ). Keep up the good work! I may have some more tutorials for you one day soon...

[K.J.]

Hmm... Didn't know that. I was having trouble with the "\n" so I used the "/n". I guess that I'm going to have to do an update for the tutorial sometime here soon.

Thank you for the info,
K.J.

[K.J.]

Be looking for an update soon(by the end of this week).

The downloads are back up(the Basic Kernel Tutorial download isn't however, if you would like it, email me at [email protected]).

K.J.

[K.J.]

I just updated Bona Fide OS Development:

May 10, 2002

* Added a 3 new tutorials and updated the Getting Started FAQ and the Basic Kernel tutorials in the Tutorials & Docs section
* Added a few new links
* The downloads are working again!
* Fixed a few "bugs" in this site that kept it from displaying correctly in some browsers

http://osdev.redir.net

K.J. aka osmaker

[Peter Ahlgren]

The URL is not working!!!

/Peter Ahlgren

[K.J.]

The problem is with the web host and Bona Fide OS Development isn't the only site hosted by them that is having trouble. Hopefully, the web host will have the problem fixed on Monday.

http://portal.portland.co.uk/kb/topic.php?t=1066

K.J.

[Peter Ahlgren]

You really should have your site mirrowed somewhere else, because its a really good site!
We are many around the world, who wants to see it regurally...

/Peter Ahlgren

PS: Sorry for bad english...

[K.J.]

I'm working on an application for hosting at neopages.net

If anyone would like to help me on it, let me know at [email protected]

K.J.

[w5k]

Hm, the Homepage looks pretty good now.
Go one like this, make some PR and the webpage will soon be good known.
The Design also looks pretty good.

[K.J.]

Okay, I was hopefully going to update the site yesterday, but one of the harddrives in my Linux box died about 2 days ago. So, I couldn't finish the tutorial. I'm working on another tutorial right now which will hopefully be up by the end of this week.

K.J.