osdev and the future

[xyjamepa]

Hi guys...
i've been thinking of this long time ago
why are you working on os programming is it
for fun,as a hobby,to get some knowledge
or you have so much free time and you want
to get some challenge?who knows...
my question is:
is there any future of this work?
i'm a student of informatic engineering faculty
and i work on my os during my studing,but
when i'll graduate is there a chance to work on osdev
or to have some commercial benefit of my knowledge?
so the general question can i make some money
from os programming?if the answer is yes how?
and what about you guys,have you ever get
some money from osdev?
thank you i'm looking for your feedback.

[earlz]

I can't think of a job it would come in for unless you worked for microsoft in the low level stuff or for a *nix team
but really its more like starting your own band... tough chance that you'll become popular and tour and everything but theirs a chance
well its the same with OS deving except that chance is even smaller(imo)
though it is a good skill to have because chances are if your making an os then your also having to do stuff like writing drivers for devices which will come in handy in some jobs
also if your making a clone OS then you basically learn just about everything about what your trying to clone

[xyjamepa]

the problem here is if you want your os to be a good one you
should work hard in the most of your time so you'll not have
much free times for other matters,and if that true your
specialization will be writing hoppy os,and that will not keep you alive
get the point... every thing to be made in a good way it'll
take your whole time and this is also true for os programming

[elaverick]

There's always commercial potential to this kinda stuff it just depends how you pitch it to potential employers.
If you explain that by developing your own Kernel and OS you've gained a deeper understanding of the internal workings of OS's and can now target your code to better take advantage of the system, that should be enough to generate a bit of conversation.

[Cheery]

Silly question, as long as there are computers which needs core software to work, there are os programmers.

When intel finds out that backwards compatibility is not THAT good thing one should keep it matter no what, I think then os programmers gets some stuff to do.

And you are absolutely silly if you think that os programmers can do nothing but program osses!

[Candy]

For every software-hardware connection that exists, you'll have experience with setting it up to a level that normal programmers can use. You know the thing that connects an electrical engineer and a software engineer. That means you'll almost acquire a qualification for both just by trying to get this to work (partially depending on the trouble you go through). My current work has recently benefitted from my OS dev stuff by me solving an embedded device that triple-faulted after an unpredictable while and by me now working on a filesystem layer on another system. Those things could've been black magic but I see them as pretty trivial myself, now that I've had the time to figure it out.

[ces_mohab]

i'm a student of informatic engineering faculty

I am also a student!

why are you working on OS programming

I really don't know except I want to make an OS.

is there any future of this work?

My schedule will end up after 2 years and then I will think.
Writing an OS may be a nice adventure or sort of challenge while not looking on benefits. May be sounding NULL but it's my opinion
::)

[xyjamepa]

thank you Candy i feel better about my work now
what i got from your reply is:
os programmers are in the middle of software engineer
and electrical engineer and we almost can get the qualification
of the both...
but don't you think that software engineers job is easier
and they can get more opportunities in the market so more experience,
more opportunities and more money...
it's not about the money... ok but at the end we should get some of it.
the problem is here in my country we already don't have a respected
software companies,they are small and new companies and they work only
in websites programming or databases stuff for schools hospitals ...etc
i'm realy confused about that :-\
and i love working in low level stuff...
how about software companies in Europe or Indea does they work in os stuff?
i just feel it isn't the age of os programming
Thanx.

[Candy]

If you try embedded, that's usually at or just above the OS dev level. At times even below.