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octacone wrote: That sounds rather...a wild scream appears...I can't get my OS to boot off an USB. How did you mange to burn it onto a medium?

My PC already has GRUB installed on the hard drive, so I just chucked the kernel in the boot partition and used GRUB's command line to boot it up.

Disk viewer, a hidden feature of the Nameless OS loader:



Another hidden feature of the loader:

Basic OS Update A.3.6
-Basic desktop
-Basic windows
-Basic compositor
-Text drawing
-Mouse driver

It looks bad, doesn't it?

No it isn't! It's minimalism Octacone!

I like your OS design, pdurlej. Everything is modular, customizable, etc.
Is your operating system loader running in real mode or it is using V86 to change resolution?
But, why did you put your disk viewer inside bootloader?
That diskviewer pretty reminds me on DEBUG.exe in MS-DOS.
But search "blue-pink flag" on Google and you may find some... unexpected results. Turn on your without archiving mode.
Spoiler:Transgender flag. Have just googled.

octacone wrote:

Lukand wrote:I have not posted anything there recently, so...
Tada!

Everything is pretty customizable.
There are three objects: 1x struct Window, 3x struct Element, struct WinHandler(The last one is planned).
I hope that I'm not violating any Microsoft law by using this look.
This is my first real GUI.

That is just awesome, as long as you don't use any Microsoft owned brands it should be okay (I think). Are those windows movable? Great job.

Windows are not movable, but it would be easy to implement.
Through I think that Bill Gates choosed bad name for his OS.
In that time there was so much not patented good names! Not current case...
Nah, who would choose a window for operating system name? When I type "Windows repair" I want to get my house windows repair service, not some Microsoft Windows free repair program.

Lukand wrote:Nah, who would choose a window for operating system name? When I type "Windows repair" I want to get my house windows repair service, not some Microsoft Windows free repair program.

That's actually a really good point. I'm not really sure how much thought people put into naming their OS but I'm contemplating renaming mine now.

When the name Windows was first used you couldn't have typed "windows repair" into a search engine; they didn't exist.

As one of the first commercial implementations of the WIMP paradigm it was a natural name to choose. And it works - ask anyone what "windows" means in computer terms and they will think of the Microsoft operating system.

This is what happens when I am bored: (Ignore the date it is static)
Update 2: Explanation: things that I am randomly coding for no reason.

In fact, I didn't write my OS from scratch! This is very hard work and I don't have time
In addition, my goal is not to develop an OS! Just, I want to understand how OSs work

So, I studied the source code of Linux-0.01, the first Linux release, and began
developing some minimal OS examples inspired from its source code.

I recently published my works here:

- TimerOS: (http://issamabd.com/timeros) a small OS that use timer Interrupt to print the clock in protected mode.
- Linux-0.00: (https://github.com/issamabd/linux-0.00) a re-implementation of Linux-0.00, the abandoned first Linux version.
- Linux-0.01: (http://issamabd.com/linux-0-01-remake) How to compile Linux-0.01 with gcc-3.2.2 and run it on Qemu ?

This is it

OMG, Lukand and octacone are get past my OS, good! I need to finally stop being lazy and start writing my network driver. Anyway, good work, Lukand and octacone!

Sorry for offtopic.

You don't say that somebody else's OS is better by looking at their VESA VBE speed tests.

Lukand wrote:You don't say that somebody else's OS is better by looking at their VESA VBE speed tests.

Sorry

BTW octacone's OS is really better than your or mine.

My website has for a while said:

Limitations

• No third party text editors.

My terminal system has really been much too non-standard. As always, I blame 2011-sortie and 2012-sortie. However, I implemented much of the terminal POSIX interface in the 1.0 release and I've since been working hard on getting it much better. I now have a lot of improvements, including sessions and psuedoterminals in the staging branch. In other words, I'm finally ready. So I went and ported myself some curses and then I ported some editors. Let's have a look at the editors I provide:

I've had my own editor(1) for years:



I recently ported vim:


(and vim on Yutani)


Vim is cool and all, but it became obvious I needed a port of the standard editor:



The user experience of ed(1) is less than optimal, so I ported GNU nano:



Now I have some good coverage of editors. If you try to run an editor that's missing, though, the command-not-found program will helpfully direct you to what you should run instead:



This is all part of a trick to get emacs users to contribute a port, as emacs is a bit difficult due to **** like unexecute and other cross-issues. I expected the Emacs users would get pissed enough that somebody crazy would contribute a port by the weekend. Well, I guess that crazy person was me:

I am amazed sortie. As always, great work.