Date: Mon, 10 Dec 12 02:48:59 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: aryeh.friedman@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, zbeeble@gmail.com Subject: Re: using FreeBSD to create a completely new OS Message-ID: <11212101048.AA17688@pluto.rain.com>
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> ... a special arrangement that allows me to skip > the course work part of grad school ... [shudder] I hope that "special arrangement" includes passing the final exams, or otherwise demonstrating that you already know the content, of at least the minimum course work that would ordinarily be required :) > [I have not formally started yet] So you don't yet have a formally-assigned advisor :( I hope you at least have had some substantial (although necessarily informal) discussions with the department head, and/or the professor whom you anticipate will be your advisor, before doing a lot of work that might turn out not to be useful in your pursuit. > I do not plan to do the whole OS just the stuff up to mid-level I/O > (for FreeBSD this is also known as user land I/O) While the userland is by far the _largest_ part, the low-level kernel is likely to be the _trickiest_ part to get right ;) Another OS for your research list: Mach (which had been around for a while before being adopted as the basis of Darwin, the MacOS X kernel). Darwin is highly modular; depending on what you're doing, you may be able to write less code from scratch by reusing or adapting some parts of it.home | help
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