Now that our OS project has expanded a little I feel that now we can support more developers. I work on the hobby OS project codenamed "pedigree" - site is at http://pedigree.googlecode.com .
It was designed originally by myself, Tyler, and bluecode and developed for 6 months by myself and bluecode, who then decided that he had other work commitments and so decided to leave.
pcmattman has been developing with me in the first 3 months and the last 3 months - so the project team is currently myself and him. Copyright is in my, bluecode's and pcmattman's name.
Quick facts about the project:
- Codenamed "pedigree" after a very tasty ale available in York, UK (where myself and Tyler are from).
- Modular kernel - everything from the VFS upwards is loaded in at boot time as modules.
- Has quite a sophisticated inbuilt kernel debugger - handy for tracking down those elusive page faults!
- All applications run in user space, naturally. This is a higher-half kernel with multitasking and multiprocessing at the core of the design - the scheduler and (almost) all subsystems are fully multicore/processor capable (although SMP support is currently lacking).
- The project has been designed to support multiple targets - it currently supports (in some stage or other) x86, x86_64, PowerPC, MIPS and ARM.
- After a large refactor I'm again able to take the x86_64 port forwards, so soon hopefully it will have the capability of the x86 port (which is the furthest forward). The PowerPC port is not far behind - only lacking shared library support.
- Runs GNU bash and GNU nano with full vt100 emulation.
- As of the most recent commits it now has a full network stack with TCP, UDP and IP, able to both retrieve and send HTTP requests/responses.
- Experimental nVidia 2D acceleration support.
Ideally we're looking for a regular who knows what he's doing (not his first time around kernels) and can adhere to a coding standard and take constructive criticism of his work well (we operate on a peer-review basis).
I think that's everything - any questions join the IRC channel, PM me here, post back, or PM me on IRC - nick: JamesM
Cheers!
James
EDIT: I should mention that I'm only thinking of taking one, possibly two developers. Any more than that at the moment could 'spoil the broth', to use an English phrase.
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