Linux or your own?

Touch · Post by **Touch** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:24 pm

I was thinking whilst doing my Work Experience the other day, whether it would be a good idea to make a Linux OS. I mean, there is GNOME and KDE already available, so you wont nessacarily need to program the kernel. Most programs are there and it looks good, if you lay it right.

But then I started thinking, of when I first started to program my OS, and the feeling I had. I love the idea of making something which is my own, and that will be completely mine.
It will probably take longer, but in the end, it will be mine!

Im still deciding whether or not to start a Linux distro, it's ok if I do, because I'm only on the kernel

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~Touch

Midas · Post by **Midas** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:13 pm

Just to note, GNOME and KDE aren't remotely associated with the kernel - they're desktop environments which make use of the X11 specification implementation (usually X.org's version) to display a GUI.

But yeah, rolling your own Linux distro would probably be quite educational, and relatively not that hard.

chase · Post by **chase** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:28 pm

Just do a google search for "Linux from Scratch" the whole process is already documented.

Touch · Post by **Touch** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:03 am

@Midas: Yeah, I know that they are desktop environments.

@Chase: I have also read the Linux from scratch.

Neo · Post by **Neo** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:49 am

Touch wrote:@Midas: Yeah, I know that they are desktop environments.

@Chase: I have also read the Linux from scratch.

So then you want to add to the numerous so called Linux distros?
Don't really think that fits into the OS development board.

Brendan · Post by **Brendan** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:36 am

Hi,

Neo wrote:
Touch wrote:@Midas: Yeah, I know that they are desktop environments.

@Chase: I have also read the Linux from scratch.
So then you want to add to the numerous so called Linux distros?
Don't really think that fits into the OS development board.

Creating your own Linux distribution probably wouldn't qualify as "OS development", but...

Writing all of your own code to run on top of the Linux kernel (and dumping everything else, like X, Bash, intrd, daemons, etc) would qualify as "OS development"...

Cheers,

Brendan

Midas · Post by **Midas** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:31 am

Touch wrote:@Midas: Yeah, I know that they are desktop environments.

Sorry, I just was confused as to what you meant by " mean, there is GNOME and KDE already available, so you wont nessacarily [sic] need to program the kernel"

Touch · Post by **Touch** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:58 pm

@Midas: The desktop development doesnt need to be made.

Well, I dont think I'm making a linux distro, just the thought.

B.E · Post by **B.E** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:08 am

I think what you mean is making an os that is compatible with programs bult for linux. it's not a bad Idea, considering that when you make an OS, the hardest part is finding hardware manufactures to make drivers for you OS(or finding information about a device(like a video card)) and it'd would be a a lot easier than makeing an OS compatible with M$

Touch · Post by **Touch** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:30 am

Yeah, I know M$ is a difficult OS to make work with your OS.

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