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I just wanted to share this, as it's exciting to me hehe.

When I started OS development I wanted to have something that could host a web page, and be self hosting.

Well although the TCP/IP stack is a little funky and sends packets in the wrong order (this is proving to be a tough nut to crack) it works well enough to send a web page.



Now I just need an editor and to port GCC, binutils and NASM.

AWESOME WORK! Like that a lot

Congrats! I have a screenshot of my first "Hello, World!" web page response from my OS around here somewhere. I know the feeling.

You should post this over on the "AHHH YEAH!!" thread.

http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=27692

Would anyone care to describe the picture? (If it's worthwhile...)

onlyonemac wrote:Would anyone care to describe the picture? (If it's worthwhile...)

As I understand, the guest system (Quinn) runs a web server, the host system (GNU/Linux with GNOME?) connects to it.

onlyonemac wrote:Would anyone care to describe the picture? (If it's worthwhile...)

There is a Firefox window open displaying plain text content served from an HTTP server on a LAN. The content is "It works! Yay!". The OP's operating system is running in a VirtualBox instance in the foreground, acting as the web server. The operating system's console is displaying a log from the boot sequence as well as a log of served HTTP requests. In order, they are a 200 for a GET request to the root of the website, a 404 for a GET request to the directory "bob", and another 200 for a GET request to the root. The OS has a graphical interface with monospace and proportional font rendering.

onlyonemac wrote:Would anyone care to describe the picture? (If it's worthwhile...)

This took me a second to figure out what you were asking, and why you were asking it.

Inside VirtualBox, he has a graphical desktop with a wallpaper showing what appear to be two trains inside of some sort of building or factory, in grayscale, with two applications running. In the bottom right corner is a "Launcher" application with three buttons: Clock, File Manager and Memory Info.

The other application is a console window, with what looks like the default VGA font, but has some color text, and a very large "Q U I N N" title in some other font, so the console application appears to support switching fonts from one character to the next. He also has a large "cartoon"-esque mouse pointer.

Funny how everyone describes something different, and between all of them I can put together an idea of what the picture looks like...

What is the text in the console?

onlyonemac wrote:What is the text in the console?

Sorry, I should have described my image in the first post, didn't even think about it.

apamment wrote:Sorry, I should have described my image in the first post, didn't even think about it.

onlyonemac just happens to be (very nearly) blind, so it's really just for him.

Edit: I just realized that the "What does your OS look like" thread would be completely useless to onlyonemac. Anyone want to go through and "describe" every screenshot in that thread?

Oh right, I get it... So he's running an HTTP server on is OS in a VirtualBox instance with IP address 192.168.56.2, and accessing served pages from a web browser on the host machine, IP address 192.168.56.1? Sounds cool!

Printing hello world, the hard way!

Muazzam wrote:Printing hello world, the hard way!

I think you just summed up OS Development.

SpyderTL wrote:

Muazzam wrote:Printing hello world, the hard way!

I think you just summed up OS Development.

At least for me, network programming is harder than OS development. It (including a server and a browser) is a high-priority for my OS nonetheless.