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The other night while mindlessly playing nethack (Bloody hobbits...) I had the idea of a championship for osdev. A competition that would decide which OS currently has the best features, design, etc. You would vote and whoever wins would get the fame of winning.

I just thought it would be interesting.......

What do you think?

Alboin wrote:The other night while mindlessly playing nethack (Bloody hobbits...) I had the idea of a championship for osdev. A competition that would decide which OS currently has the best features, design, etc. You would vote and whoever wins would get the fame of winning.

I just thought it would be interesting.......

What do you think?

I don't think such a competition will end well, It'll simply result in people fighting over who's OS is best.

Bad idea in my opinion, It may give one lucky member a nice ego boost.. but It'll leave many others truly disappointed.

Brynet-Inc wrote:I don't think such a competition will end well, It'll simply result in people fighting over who's OS is best.

Bad idea in my opinion, It may give one lucky member a nice ego boost.. but It'll leave many others truly disappointed.

But it'll be a vote. There'll be no discussion on the winner.

Alboin wrote:But it'll be a vote. There'll be no discussion on the winner.

It's still a bad idea... This isn't a democracy.. Just let people code in peace

this could work..., but instead of voting we have contests: fastest on to run a given binary, etc... , i think the first contest should be who can solve 3 games of Hanoi the fastest, this will test multitasking, file loading ( the binary will be on a FAT floppy ) , system calls ( the binary will use int 45h or something ) , and display ( this will affect people who have slow display functions)

so what do you think!

Brynet-Inc wrote:

Alboin wrote:But it'll be a vote. There'll be no discussion on the winner.

It's still a bad idea... This isn't a democracy.. Just let people code in piece

Code in piece? There's an expression I've never heard before...

Seriously though, while the idea is good, it would have serious issues in implementation. For instance, we all think our own OSs are the best out of everyone else's. If we try to compare each one, we'll just create massive flame wars and possibly lose some members from the community.

I like the idea myself, but it's too difficult to implement without everyone ripping each other's heads off.

pcmattman wrote:Code in piece? There's an expression I've never heard before...

Bah I just woke up when I posted that..

I noticed you did that to someone who called VESA 'visa' and such... I thought I may as well return the favour

pcmattman wrote:I noticed you did that to someone who called VESA 'visa' and such... I thought I may as well return the favour

Not exactly, The "E" and "I" key are quite distant.. While I did say something about that users spelling, In this instance I didn't spell the word wrong.. I just used the wrong way of spelling the "right" word..

In my own way I'm justified.. leave me be..

Maybe I won't help ya with Hardware Datasheets next time..

Ruin my fun

Why does logic always win...

pcmattman wrote:I noticed you did that to someone who called VESA 'visa' and such... I thought I may as well return the favour

Let's make a operating system in protested mode, what we'll need first? Oh yea, GDT and IDT with false and incorrect values. Now we have a working OS in protect..., pardon, protested mode.

I protest to this outrageous comment!

Just kidding, of course......

inflater

I protest to this outrageous comment!