Re: Urgent

2010-06-22 Thread Mike McCarty
prakhar gaur wrote: Dear Jai, Instead of buying books and all. Just start working with LFS. If you got the mail-list id, then I am sure that you know the place to download the book(LFS-6.6) But be sure to go through the pre-requisite reading list though. Building LFS will not teach OS

Re: urgent

2010-06-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
JimD. wrote: Ideal starting place for what? Learning how an OS works? The problem with Minux circa 1988 is that the code was poorly written and buggy. The concepts used are non-starters 20 years later. Are you maintaining that in the past 20+ years nothing better is out there? No. Of

Re: urgent

2010-06-22 Thread George
On 6/20/2010 1:03 AM, JAY PRAKASH SINGH wrote: Hello , sir I am student pursuing B.tech 5th sem , I want to design design and and implement my own operating system plz tell me how and where I should start. This might be a good place for you to start you explorations: OSDev.org

Re: urgent

2010-06-21 Thread Paul Rogers
It would take hundreds of gifted people more than a decade to achieve such a thing. Or Linus about a year. I'm not sure the OP could absorb that much info that quickly. Not to mention that Linus' first kernel wasn't what we know today. It ran a 386, and was more an implmentation of

Re: urgent

2010-06-21 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 22:32 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: Err, I think you'll find that learning how to design and implement my own operating system is more than a bit of homework. It would take hundreds of gifted people more than a decade to achieve such a thing. Not necessarily - I gather

Re: urgent (Neal Murphy)

2010-06-21 Thread JimD.
It would take hundreds of gifted people more than a decade to achieve such a thing. Or Linus about a year. Sorry, but I have to comment on this. It is just too interesting. Linus's real genius was in scoping and managing the project so it could get done. The 1.0 release took more like 2

Re: urgent

2010-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Rogers wrote: It would take hundreds of gifted people more than a decade to achieve such a thing. Or Linus about a year. I'm not sure the OP could absorb that much info that quickly. Not to mention that Linus' first kernel wasn't what we know today. It ran a 386, and was more an

Re: urgent (Neal Murphy)

2010-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
JimD. wrote: As for Minux, another endeavor that failed to meet expectations. It depends on what you think the expectations were. My book on Minix is dated 1988 and included a 5.25 floppy with the entire source code, about 13000 lines. Tannenbaum said he wrote it for instructional reasons,

Re: urgent (Neal Murphy)

2010-06-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
JimD. wrote: As for Minux, another endeavor that failed to meet expectations. It depends on what you think the expectations were. My book on Minix is dated 1988 and included a 5.25 floppy with the entire source code, about 13000 lines. Tannenbaum said he wrote it for instructional

RE: urgent

2010-06-20 Thread Yasin Yenidünya
Hi, i think no one will help you here. But i understand the issue that you are facing. Many keko users will told you here is not the place that you make your homework or some thing like that. So can use 2 tutorial to understand operating system idea http://en.skelix.org

Re: urgent

2010-06-20 Thread Andrew Benton
On 20/06/10 21:07, Yasin Yenidünya wrote: Hi, i think no one will help you here. But i understand the issue that you are facing. Many keko users will told you “here is not the place that you make your homework” or some thing like that. Err, I think you'll find that learning how to design and

Re: urgent

2010-06-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: It would take hundreds of gifted people more than a decade to achieve such a thing. Or Linus about a year. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: urgent

2010-06-20 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday 20 June 2010 17:42:52 Bruce Dubbs wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: It would take hundreds of gifted people more than a decade to achieve such a thing. Or Linus about a year. I'm not sure the OP could absorb that much info that quickly. The OP needs to select his hardware, learn the

Re: urgent

2010-06-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
JAY PRAKASH SINGH wrote: Hello , sir I am student pursuing B.tech 5th sem , I want to design design and and implement my own operating system plz tell me how and where I should start. Take a University level course on operating systems. Alternatively, read a book. For example: