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I wnat ot know what is the best open source OS around in terms of 'strength' and ease of understanding.
I am proficient in C++

Hrm ... strengh? Linux or BSD.

Ease of learning? Not sure really.

By the way, C++ isn't often used for OS development - C is. Hopefully you understand pointers

Linux is a good choice because there are so many existing distros.It's code is comented very well.There are a tons of documents and tutorial around the web for Linux.If you want to read it's sources you need to learn the differences between C and C++ because the code is in C.

OSDevver wrote:I wnat ot know what is the best open source OS around in terms of 'strength' and ease of understanding.
I am proficient in C++

Spelling mistakes aside... I'll respond to this one...

Quite a few common operating systems out there refuse C++ usage in their kernels, OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD use ASM/C only.. And I'm almost positive the Linux kernel does not use C++.

I think NewOS/Haiku might use C++ in their kernel though..

You can use C++ for developing drivers for Darwin/Mac OS X, but the kernel itself is C AFAIK...

I just switched back to being a Linux user about 2 days ago (from Windows2000) and I'm now running Ubuntu..

The amount of eye-candy on my desktop makes stuff like Windows Vista look really out-dated. Yeah, you guessed it, I'm running Beryl as my window manager.

All of the major available functional open-source OS'es are great, they get their work done and have many sofisticated options and applications that are run either like command line or graphical.

But there isn't yet any OS specially good to learn from it; that's yet to be seen.......

~ wrote:But there isn't yet any OS specially good to learn from it; that's yet to be seen.......

Minix was made for educational use. Maybe check that out. (It's in C.) Also, there's an entire book about it....

OSDevver wrote:I wnat ot know what is the best open source OS around in terms of 'strength' and ease of understanding.
I am proficient in C++

Trooooooolll! Troooll in the dungeons!

OSDevver wrote:I wnat ot know what is the best open source OS around in terms of 'strength' and ease of understanding.
I am proficient in C++

Minix 3! Check out their documentation:D!

For ease of understanding, I'd recommend any of the hobby OS's around that are on the more complete side. Like newos, mobius, etc (You can google for these). They are designed well, but not too complex to understand what is going on in the code like modern Linux would be for someone just getting started in OS dev.

Crazed123 wrote:

OSDevver wrote:I wnat ot know what is the best open source OS around in terms of 'strength' and ease of understanding.
I am proficient in C++

Trooooooolll! Troooll in the dungeons!

Umm...can we can some constructive posts from you?

All you seem to do is put others down, or troll yourself. This isn't the place for it.

Daedalus wrote:

Crazed123 wrote:

OSDevver wrote:I wnat ot know what is the best open source OS around in terms of 'strength' and ease of understanding.
I am proficient in C++

Trooooooolll! Troooll in the dungeons!

Umm...can we can some constructive posts from you?

All you seem to do is put others down, or troll yourself. This isn't the place for it.

Oh no no. You must understand. He just can't help himself from using that quote.

Brynet-Inc wrote:Quite a few common operating systems out there refuse C++ usage in their kernels, OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD use ASM/C only.. And I'm almost positive the Linux kernel does not use C++.

I think NewOS/Haiku might use C++ in their kernel though..

I've gone through the NewOS source quite a bit. No C++. Haiku I've never personally looked at, but being as its a NewOS fork, then i would assume it is all C as well.

omin0us wrote:I've gone through the NewOS source quite a bit. No C++. Haiku I've never personally looked at, but being as its a NewOS fork, then i would assume it is all C as well.

I've looked in the kernel directory of haiku and there were .cpp files present..