A french student.

[ObiYann]

Hi guys, i'm a second year student in Computer Science in Caen, France, University Institute of Technology.
As you can guess, my main interest is all thing's related to Operating Systems.
I do C and C++ programming, i have some programs with pointers arithmetic, a buggy recursive ls (no ftw.h, it's for cheaters), forkbomb (works very good, need to reboot ), and thing's like that, but no serious stuff.
I'm learning a little asm x86, we studied it but haven't done real things with it.
Actually, i've started soft, with trying to understand and do things with nachos.
Also, i'm Linux user since 2004, i've started with Mandrake (now Mandriva), the french linux distro, but i don't like it, so i go on ubuntu in summer 2005. Unhappy of the evolution of Ubuntu, i've gone on Debian, and i'm quite happy with it, using a Testing and someone taking stuffs in sid or experimental when they aren't yet in testing.
I've lot of interest into Operating Systems and want to have a better understanding of that.
I've read some stuffs, i understand differences between micro-kernels, monolithic kernels, exo-kernels, modular kernels.... but that's only theory, may be it's time to try a little practice.
Also, i'm a noob into Operating System Programming, so i'm here with lots of questions, and few answers
Don't worry, i understand how the search engine work

I actually own these books:
- Understanding the Linux Kernel (Bovet, Cesati)
- C++ Programming Language (Stroustrup)
- System programming under Linux (Blaess)
- Networks (pujolle)
All in French. I've ordered a Tanenbaum book, i will have it someday........

EDIT: I've forgotten, i may do mistakes with my english, sorry for that.

[AndrewAPrice]

Hello and welcome to OSDev. I now know 2 French people

The wiki is a great resource, I'm sure you would have passed through it some time or another.

If you have any questions, feel welcome to ask us. That's what we're here for!

[Solar]

A warm welcome from me, too.

EDIT: I've forgotten, i may do mistakes with my english, sorry for that.

Don't be, your English is excellent. Most of us here aren't native speakers, so we wouldn't know anyway.

[AndrewAPrice]

Don't be, your English is excellent. Most of us here aren't native speakers, so we wouldn't know anyway.

Sometimes people who learned English as a second language can speak it better than native speakers (I'm a native English speaker myself). Native speakers can be influenced by local accents and dialects, while non-native speakers may speak with a more perfected text-book English.

[AJ]

Native speakers also tend to get quite lazy with the language too, whereas non-native speakers concentrate more on whether they are getting it right . From your post, I wouldn't have known you are non-native speaker (and there's a double-negative ).

Cheers,
Adam

[ObiYann]

I've no real problem with reading, writing and listenning english, but i speak it quite bad with an horrible accent. I aim to go in England or USA, during my study or just after, to solve that problem.
I confirm that non-native speakers are sometimes better, i see that in France, french peoples do lot of deformations when speaking.
Anyway, thanks for the welcome.

EDIT: And that wiki is interesting

[DeletedAccount]

Welcome from another idiot
My english is quite horrible as well . But i like to brag about it than improve it

Truly Evil
Saint Lucifer

[01000101]

welcome!

your english is fine btw.
I hope you can both gain knowledge and share pre-existing knowledge here.

[ObiYann]

I fear that i haven't lot of knowledge to share actually

[Revan76]

Ahah! A french!

I'm french too and I never posted here. Hence, I say hello to everyone