cool scene Sudhanshu it's my pleasure to be in this discussion and inspiring and energizing to interact with you, Jain and others in this group.
also, mohit inspiring to read your post... Very true about Linux having origins in 386 manuals... Though very few people are able to express it in this way... Expands my own mind too. I will respond soon even if i go silent for 2-3 days... Regards, Nalin ps:sent from mobile so pardon top posting... On 5/24/10, Sudhanshu Shekhar Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanx alot Nalin , > > I think ur post is great bcos all that u said was what I have been > doing so far ; That means I might b on the right track. > > In my college ,me and one of my friend compiled a linux using LFS. > It helped alot in gaining linux hands-on experience. And we finally > ended up in completing a Linux Distro based on slackware. > Now we further extended our project in something hybrid of type but > surely not which have not been tried, i.e making an OS that can > feature both Windows capability and Linux capability at compatible > layer. I dedicated 2 months in R&D , just to see if the possibilty of > making such an OS was possible or not. > > The concept is surely feasible not at application layer (WINE) only > but also at the kernel level. But requires huge programming ,on making > a special subsystem to support POSIX and WIN32 environment. This is > not at all possible until unless, we assign 3 times the all IIT-LUG > programmers at the task. So the idea was good but not feasible at > present resources. This idea also flamed up an issue on Microsofts > Corp. Licensing terms been offended through the project in the > college. But the solution to issue was to re-write the > systemcalls(using opensource technolgies) for a new hybrid kernel to > support the homogenous environment of both the OS(s). This concept > could actually obsolete WINE project itself , if implemeted. > > That was my idea but dont know much about the stuff. I can also be > wrong at some point , but that could be only corrected by pursuit of > knowledge. So I decided not to make such an OS right now, but learn > about the kernels first and then to develop something hypothetical. > > So didnt anyone tried any OS/161, xv6 & pint OS or any other > thing ?.. > > Anything else on kernels or any info which anybody wish to share about > Operating Systems. > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- Sent from my mobile device -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
