Which OS do you guys use ?

[kerim]

Windows XP and sometimes good old DOS

[bubach]

mostly fasmw for OS-dev, but notepad for much else (xhtml, php, css etc.)
BTW, only using XP pro at the moment.

[oswizard]

Windows XP Pro with NASM/Visual Studio 2003 (No GCC... except for compiling Bochs. call me a rebel )

[Pype.Clicker]

Windows XP Pro with NASM/Visual Studio 2003 (No GCC... except for compiling Bochs. call me a rebel )

are you doing it 100% assembly or using some MSVC(++) ? if latter case, would you mind giving a look at http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/Visual%20C and see if you can help newbies ?

[HyperVista]

Windows XP, FASM, VC++, VMWare

[crc]

Linux or FreeBSD. I sometimes use a Win32 port of Qemu to test, but that's all I use Windows for.

[erikgreenwald]

Mostly MacOSX and FreeBSD, sometimes irix, solaris, linux, aix, ...

[Pype.Clicker]

Mostly MacOSX and FreeBSD, sometimes irix, solaris, linux, aix, ...

Wow! that means you have SGI, SUN and much other "funny" hardware all around !
Something like a computer science teaching lab ?

[erikgreenwald]

nah, a research lab... but at my last job, I had all of those, too (fortune100 internet services)... plus, low end "funny" (aka, unsucky) hardware is available cheap on ebay, or among friends... I was given an ultra5 by a friend who just didn't need it anymore

[oswizard]

Windows XP Pro with NASM/Visual Studio 2003 (No GCC... except for compiling Bochs. call me a rebel )

are you doing it 100% assembly or using some MSVC(++) ? if latter case, would you mind giving a look at http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/Visual%20C and see if you can help newbies ?

Good idea. I'm working on it...

Mike

[AR]

Hello
I use winXP exclusivly for osdev.

Stephen

No you don't, you use it as your primary OS, don't try and lie your way into these forums

Cheers

If you're trying to be funny, I don't get it. I personally use WinXP exclusively for OS Development, I have Linux and BSD installed but I don't Dev on them.

[srg_13]

No you don't, you use it as your primary OS, don't try and lie your way into these forums

What you just said dosen't make any sense... What are you trying to say?? By saying that "I use winXP exclusivly for osdev." I maen that I do use Linux, but I only program my operating system on Windows.

-Stephen

[mystran]

If you're trying to be funny, I don't get it. I personally use WinXP exclusively for OS Development, I have Linux and BSD installed but I don't Dev on them.

He was trying to say that if you write an operating system yourself, you quite likely are going to debug it on a real machine. Since debugging is part of any development, and since you are doing (at least part of) your debugging using your own operating system, you are technically doing OSdev on both WinXP and your own operating system.

Btw, as a totally offtopic thought: I just started learning Win32 programming, and it makes me feel funny to write Windows software under Linux, use MinGW cross-compiler to compile it on Linux, and then use Wine to test it on Linux. So I'm currently doing Windows development without having any Windows installed.

[srg_13]

Yeah.. I don't really think that calum would really take that view, as he isnt an os developer, or any kind of programmer at that.

-Stephen

P.S. Why would I say I was a windows user if I was lying about it? Wouldn't it be more logical to say that I used Linux, or some kind of BSD (if I was lying)???

[guest]

I take the program logic and break it down to opcodes per architecture manuals, then I convert these opcodes into their binary equivalents. After I am done, I attenuate the magnetic armature of the hard disk and write each opcode bit-by-bit directly to the hard drive... much like tap-code.