what to do next?

xyjamepa · Post by **xyjamepa** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:15 am

Hi guys...
i'm working on my 32bit pmode os and my aim is to setup
a nice GUI for it until now i got my memory management
works fine so what do you advice me to do next?
or what did you do next in your project?
should i work on multitasking,file system so i can load
some pictures or i can go directly to work on my GUI?
and another thing would someone please give me a link
to the linux kernel source code to download it,i tried
google but i didn't get any thing usefull.
Thanx.

Otter · Post by **Otter** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:34 am

That depends on your os ... for example: if you want to include your gui in your kernel, you could do this now. But if you want to do it in user mode, of course you first need to create a process management ( cause I think your gui will work as a seperate process )

If you want your GUI to be a module you need code to access a file system to load it ... But if your file system or disk device driver should run as a seperate process, you need a process management, too.

So I decided to work on the process management when I finished my memory manager ( physical + virtual + userspace manager )

gaf · Post by **gaf** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:02 pm

Should i work on multitasking,file system so i can load
some pictures or i can go directly to work on my GUI?

In my opinion the user-interface should be among the last parts to be implemented for the system. Not only because it's much harder to write the code without the basic frame-work provided by the kernel, but also as there's the huge danger of getting side-tracked by the eyecandy.

Would someone please give me a link
to the linux kernel source code to download it,i tried
google but i didn't get any thing usefull.

Several versions of the linux kernel can be downloaded from kernel.org. Note that It's also possible to browse the source online if you just need to have a look at some specific parts.

regards,
gaf