Archetypes

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:51 am

I have ported the 'osdeving like ...' pages on the wiki, and i was wondering how much of an archetype everybody is:

Wiki:What order should i make things in

Also, if you want to be an example archetype, just let me know and i'll add you

If people arent interested i'll remove those parts.

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:12 am

Lino Commando, at least as a first step. Drawing pretty GUI mockups or doing nifty network stack things doesn't help zilch when you cannot work on your OS. (See the "self hosting" thread.

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Colonel Kernel · Post by **Colonel Kernel** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:33 am

I think there should be a male version of Eleanor Semaphore: Rex Mutex. That would be me.

Candy · Post by **Candy** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:22 am

Colonel Kernel wrote:I think there should be a male version of Eleanor Semaphore: Rex Mutex. That would be me.

Dito for me, but without the visible A's and B's. If you want to see it running, turn traces on in Bochs.

Walling · Post by **Walling** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:46 am

I think I'm Rex Mutex too, but sometimes I turn into James T. Klik and want everything too look nice as well. It is my alter ego.

Candy wrote:Dito for me, but without the visible A's and B's. If you want to see it running, turn traces on in Bochs.

That's how it should be done

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:07 pm

Walling wrote:I think I'm Rex Mutex too, but sometimes I turn into James T. Klik and want everything too look nice as well. It is my alter ego.

I'm hopelessly stuck halfway the two - two weeks ago I set up an RPC scheme and the few hours after that i (ab)used it to render polygons to the screen.

Candy wrote:Dito for me, but without the visible A's and B's.

In my case, red green and blue

Colonel Kernel wrote:I think there should be a male version of Eleanor Semaphore: Rex Mutex.

Are you suggesting me to rename the page (and getting rid of the only girl in the list)?

Walling · Post by **Walling** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:19 pm

Combuster wrote:
Colonel Kernel wrote:I think there should be a male version of Eleanor Semaphore: Rex Mutex.
Are you suggesting me to rename the page (and getting rid of the only girl in the list)?

I think Eleanor Semaphore is the most nerdy archetype. I like the idea that she is a girl.

AndrewAPrice · Post by **AndrewAPrice** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:27 pm

James T. Klik with a Lin Commando is a window.

TheQuux · Post by **TheQuux** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:09 pm

Lino Commando, with just enough James T Klik to make my Lino Commando bigger...

Other ones that you may want to add are:
Max Security: Spends all of his time hardening his OS, so that it is immune to buffer overflows, DOS attacks, and anything else.

(can't come up with a name for this one)... First, designs the kernel<->userspace interface. Then, defines how this interface will be abstracted away on both sides. Then, decides how the abstraction will be abstracted away. Motto: "There's no problem so difficult that it can't be abstracted away."

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:53 am

MessiahAndrw wrote:James T. Klik with a Lin Commando is a window.

Sure, that's where I would want to end up too. But while developing the OS, GUI has a rather low priority.

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:05 am

TheQuux wrote: Other ones that you may want to add are:
Max Security: Spends all of his time hardening his OS, so that it is immune to buffer overflows, DOS attacks, and anything else.

Although I think its just something added on top of some other, Lino Commando doing ACLs, Nick writing firewalls, Klik doing clipping, Eleanore/Rex writing starvation-free algorithms and a CFQ scheduler.

But maybe somebody is so paranoid that he deserves to be a "Brock Rock" or whatever. If you can imagine him feel free to write an article about it (or inspire me to do it)

AndrewAPrice · Post by **AndrewAPrice** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:13 am

Solar wrote:
MessiahAndrw wrote:James T. Klik with a Lin Commando is a window.
Sure, that's where I would want to end up too. But while developing the OS, GUI has a rather low priority.

I sort of rushed to get VESA support, but once I implemented a console window (like a specifying the X, Y, width, height, font of where the output should be printed) I was able to write my GUI and work on the rest from the beginning. It's probably not the best way to start out, but hey - not everyone has take the same route!

Crazed123 · Post by **Crazed123** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:07 pm

I started rather Lino Commando and have become far more Eleanor Semaphore than anything else. However, I don't know if my general desire to invent something new goes with either.

I mean, how many times has somebody invented distributed computing through IPC on a microkernel? That's old hat. I'm talking about a guy called Richard Revolution who just won't do something if it's been done before.