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Re: Sphere
I also teach OS courses. Will you bw willing to share the course info
mentioned in the folloiwng post?
Regards,
- ishwar
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Jim Long wrote:
> Here is my 2 cents.
>
> At Oregon Institute of Technology, we are wrapping up an OS course based on
> the OSKit libraries. Let me put an emphasis on LIBRARIES. With OSKit, YOU
> must build the kernel. OSKit provides a set of utilities to help in the
> building of kernels, but in order to do this, you must know what it is you
> want to build, then, as I am sure all of my students from this quarter will
> attest, be willing to get down and very dirty in code (even assembler) to
> understand what is going on.
>
> Getting code to the point of having a bootable entry point is a monumental
> task. OSKit has already done this for you. You do not need to spend months
> researching the Intel X86 processor to do this. This, in itself, is worth
> it's bits in gold. Cheers to the OSKit developers!
>
> Everybody in the course was at least able to get the examples to boot. Many
> of these students have little experience developing in a UNIX based
> environment. We got projects from virtual terminals, to thread schedulers,
> to file system managers, to a working 4GByte virtual memory manager.
>
> A tip for you. Get the Mandrake 8.0 release and install it and the GRUB
> bootloader (if you are doing stand-alone development). This will allow you
> to compile the OSKit in native mode, then load the kernels directly as
> multiboot images.
>
> Good luck.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Grimes" <alangrimes@starpower.net>
> To: <oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 6:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Sphere
>
>
> > Leigh Stoller:
> > > So, I went and dug up your first message to the oskit list, from 2
> > > years ago. I gather you have not learned much, or made much progress
> > > since then.
> >
> > I've given more thought to this point and have concluded that the
> > problem lies in the obscenely outrageous usability deficits of UNIX. I
> > can't immagine how anyone could get anything done with it with a reading
> > retention rate of anything less than 90%... (Mine is 20% at best; My
> > strength is in understanding abstract stuff...)
> >
> > If I had a set of charts (much better than the one provided on the site)
> > depicting the structure and intended use of OSkit, I could probably
> > begin to get a handle on it. Lacking that, the texts provided are not
> > sufficient for me to get anything useful done with it. =\
> >
> > Your list ef example kernels lacks any indication as to how they are to
> > be compiled and tested... =\
> >
> > --
> > NUKE NIGERIA!!!! (419)
> > http://users.erols.com/alangrimes/ <my website.
> > Any usage of this e-mail account is subject to the terms and conditions
> > specified on my website.
> >
>
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