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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:43 am
by jal
01000101 wrote:Indeed, the expandability of open-source OS's is unlimited. The OS I am making is a dedicated OS running on proprietary hardware, therefore in my situation, expandability is of no concern and the need for 'utilities' from other people is equally unimportant to the overall OS goal.
I'm anxiously awaiting for you to reveal the nature of this OS. The proprietary hardware, did you design that yourself as well? Or is it perchased from a manufacturer as-is?
JAL
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:11 pm
by 01000101
The hardware is bought as-is.
Also, the OS is designed to run the hardware in a 1u rackmountable machine. Single-slot dual gigabit NIC's or alternatively dual fiber port NIC's are the focal point. They are run through a 64-bit 133mhz pci-X slot. The harddrive is used only as a logging system, and that is heavily encrypted using multiple algorithms depending on the data's location. Decryption is on-the-fly. There is no keyboard, vga, mouse, parallel or any other 'back panel' stuff as they are either unsupported (no drivers) or physically de-activated (epoxied shut). Also there is no beeping, or LED's on neither the NICs nor anywhere else. Fanless design. Redundant PSU's. Proxy gateway enabled or Network Transparency enabled.
If any of the core hardware is tampered with, the system halts, but not before any sensitive data in memory or on the HDD is either erased or encrypted.
BTW, tests have just concluded that packet-passthrough is seamless travelling through DiNS. Just had to get that outta the way to make sure the hardware and software was fast enough for a decent sized business.
more to come.
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:24 pm
by jal
01000101 wrote:more to come.
Sounds good. Still anxiously awaiting more...
JAL
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:45 pm
by 01000101
just wanted to let you guys know that i finally added my OS to the projects list. =)