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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.

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. )

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

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.

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

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)?

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.

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

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."

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.

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)

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!

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.