Google Summer of Code: Minix 3 and Other OS projects

[arun]

Hi all,

Google Summer of Code is on for 2011. The deadline for applications is April 8, so there's plenty of time to get those proposals together.

If you're unfamiliar with the program, Google will pay you $5000 USD to hack on your favorite OS project. For those reading OSDI 3rd ed, this is a great way to dive into Minix 3 development. Check out the Minix 3 GSoC Page, and feel free to propose your own idea. There are a lot of other fine OS projects participating as well. You can find more information on the program in the GSoC FAQ.

If you know any university students or you're affiliated with a university, please spread the word. It's a great program. MINIX 3 has participated in 2008-2010, and last year was our best GSoC yet. All four students did great work; three projects were merged into trunk by GSoC's end and shipped out in our 3.1.8 release a month later.

If you'd like to work on MINIX this summer, drop by #minix on Freenode and post on our newsgroup. We'd be happy to chat with you about your proposals.

Arun (Minix 3 developer)

[Jvac]

I took on Minix before starting to work on my own OS from scratch. And when I announced that
I completed my first OS project I got grilled by some guys for not putting Minix on my Title to my post
see here http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23321. It's ok I know is all for love they meant well .

I recommend Minix to anyone.

Good Luck to the Minix team.

Thanks

[TylerH]

You NEED ELF support! (Have you gotten ELF support recently? You didn't have it last time I checked.)

[JackScott]

Their GSoC project page says that they want to port the GDB debugger, so that they can have support for debugging ELF executables. There's no point debugging them if you can't run them, I would have thought...

[Jezze]

Jvac. I don't know if you are kidding or just plain stupid. You can't use the term "Completed my first OS" by installing Minix. You hadn't written a single line of code. I still don't really know if you know what programming actually means.

Here at Osdev we WRITE operating systems, we don't INSTALL them. Do you understand the difference?

[Jvac]

What's up Jezze,

Jvac. I don't know if you are kidding or just plain stupid. You can't use the term "Completed my first OS" by installing Minix. You hadn't written a single line of code. I still don't really know if you know what programming actually means.

Easy big guy my English is not to good no excuse I know I am working on my grammar.

Do I know OS programming? No I am new here hoping to start something.

I will watch what I write and how I say it and maybe I won't offend any geniuses.

Have a nice day and thank you for your help.

[shikhin]

I wonder if adding Kernel Thread support to Minix 3 is a good project...

[TylerH]

I did some research: They've already got ELF support, but not by default. As of 3.2.0(http://wiki.minix3.org/en/UsersGuide/ELFSwitch) it will be the default format. They're currently at 3.1.8.