Thinking of a name for an Operating System...

[slacker]

give it a name with profanity in it to get people's attention...

[elias]

mines is gonna be called eliax. i made, its named after me. or maybe ill call it doors

[Schol-R-LEA]

I have three (or four, depending on when you ask me) different projects in mind, not counting a variety of side excursions. The projects I have names for are:

[url=http://www.mindspring.com/~scholr/tech/LoIS/]LoIS is a set of experiments in the structure of a tutorial, which I am using to both develop and to document and clarify my experiments. It is not a coherent operating system per se, so much as a way of organizing and refining the various experiments I am doing. It also is meant to be a tutorial for mewcomers, explaining in careful detail the process of writing basic sections of an OS. This aspect is more for my own use, as it forces me to actually understand what I am doing well enough to explain it (those familar with RP Feynman's memoirs should appreciate the value of this), though I do hope it will be of some help to others as well. I haven't gotten very far with this, I am afraid; most of my various experiments and test programs aren't even touched on by LoIS as of yet.

The next step past that is a bit murky. One of the projects I have in mind to try is Mirage, a virtualizer/exokernel along the lines of VMware or the old VM/370 system. The idea is that by using that as a base for building other OSes, I can abstract out the real hardware to some degree, which would allow me to simplify the 'high level' OSes running on top of it. The other experiment I am considering is ENOS (EMACS Native Operating System). It would implement just enough of a kernel in C and assembly to support the basic GNU EMACS ELisp interpreter, and the remainder of the system would be in ELisp itself, with EMACS as the system shell. This would serve as a proof-of-concept for some of the ideas I have in mind regarding user interfaces, and the requirements of a stable and usable system.

The name I have tenatively given to my 'final' goal is Thelema, an name which is indicative of my delusions of grandeur... but I digress. While I have various ideas regarding how this system should work, no set plans have been made, and the goals tend to shift over time. In the unlikely event that this project (previously callled Janos, until I found out that there was an OS with that name already) ever gets beyond the planning stage, I will probably choose a less meoldramatic name for it.

[elias]

actually, i had this crazy idea, of making some OS where people have computer battles. youd have security, but peopel could make progs that bust through it. dont know hwo itd work, but its cool in concept.

[FS2Death]

Asm Os?
That is crazy. You know what, that is possible. All you have to do is use macros for c type operations. Or just compile your c code to asm and edit it with human hands from there.

[DarylD]

elias..I am sure something similar has been done before, not an operating system but coded applications battling.

Think it was called CoreWars or something similar.

Daryl.

[will]

I staked claim on MyOS a while back
YAOS is still available it seems (Yet Another OS?)

And corewars... can't hide that I am a keen follower!

check out
http://corewars.sourceforge.net
http://www.koth.org
irc: irc.koth.org #corewars
usenet: rec.games.corewars
google: search for corewars, loads of dedicated little homepages should be found

[elias]

yes i know about core wars, but i was thinking of something bigger. core wars is limited to a small isntruction set, and certain classes of progs beat other classes, so its kinda like luck. i was thinking something where you set up your own protocols and defenses, and people try and break them. it would be like hacking computers, but you actually have to plan it out, rather than using small flaws in progs. its not too thought out yet, i jsut have a general concept