I know there hasn’t been many updates to this blog or on the forum, I do apologize for that. Fortunately for me, my financial business is starting to pick up greatly. Unfortunately that means I don’t get as much time to work on this project.
If you’ve been registering on the forums and wondering why your account isn’t active, it’s because I’m not activating accounts right now. I’m looking for a forum solution that will help stop the massive amount of spam that builds up. If that means I have to build one from scratch, then so be it. I may do that anyways to add in core SEO.
Anyways, I figure I’d at least give you guys a notice about what is going on and why no updates have happened in a long while.
Since the spammers are posting more and more (and the moderation queue is getting quite full), I’ve made 2 changes to the forum.
- Users must be activated by me
- Guests are no long able to view the forum.
Google still can and the rest of the search bots (That it knows about anyways) and everything else still functions as normal.
That is all.
Update: I’ve put it back to the way it was and removed all non-activated users as well as users with 0 posts. I would block by IP, however, Dreamhost has it setup through a proxy and everyone is coming through the same IP. I am looking at other forum options so I don’t have to do all this crap. Will update once done.
Since we are starting to get some notice, we decided to put the wiki back up. I’m going to try and find some time soon to get some spec pages put in. While doing that, I am also going to brush up on my X11 and shell programming. I want to start getting something setup. I’ll probably get a Google Code repo setup or just use the SVN repo I already have on Dreamhost.
Hope to see you guys on the forum/wiki!
Well, I’ve been busy. That’s the jist of it. Logged into the forums, had 280+ spam topics to clear out… and 1 legit post. But I am glad to see more and more activity, even if going slowly. It has a pulse though.
Anyways, now that there is some activity, we need to start making progress (regardless of how small) to turn this into reality. IE, we need to start specing out details such as screen layouts, communication protocols, storage systems, etc. Although I want this to start out on top of a linux distro (in my case, ubuntu), I want this to eventually branch off and be an entirely new distro. Once there is enough content, I’ll put the Wiki backup so we can have a central location for it all and expand upon it.
An update to the forum rules as well. You MUST have an account to post and MUST have a previously posted comment to prevent being moderated. That should kill off most spam.
I look forward to working with all of you and making this a reality.
Alright, I know I keep moving around on things, but I swear I’m making progress!! This time, instead of working on the kernel itself, I’m just going to build a system using LFS (Linux From Scratch) and build a shell in it. I’m running through the BASH 4.0 code to figure out how to do things. I’ll adjust my scripts so that instead of calling the login program on boot, it calls the shell instead. I know, could cause problems, but hey, we can’t have solutions without problems right?
Anyways, I’ll install a Wiki on a subdomain soon and start tabbing out the specs and what I wish to accomplish. I’ll see if I can link the wp_users and mediawiki login together to simplifiy things. No need having 2 logins for one site right?
I’ll also start pulling stuff from other sites (giving credit where credit is due) and requesting comments and what not. For all those visiting, please leave comments and let me know your opinions.
I’ve setup a local VBox for me to test booting the kernel on. I’m going to setup an intial linux host so I can do some programming on. Once I have that, I will start making a custom distro specifically for LCARS. How cool would that be? Replacing the traditional Bash shell with an LCARS one? Well, that’s the goal now. Might make a minimal port of X11 or just use it as well. I’d rather not though. The least amount of software loaded, the better. I want this to be agile and efficient enough so that it can be quickly streamed over a network, booted, and ran at top speed on something similar to a Net Appliance. Those that are old enough will remember those. They died quickly.
Anyways, I’ll be using the 2.6.29 kernel for starters then adjust the booting process to load a custom shell. This will be interesting.
BTW, the ads you now see, if you don’t want to see them anymore, get Firefox and install the AdBlock plugin. Otherwise, put up with it. This site costs money (very little, but still some) and I’d like a little support. And this way, you don’t have to donate either. It’s all good.
Catch ya later.
I’ve updated the blog from 2.5 to 2.7. I’ve also changed the focus of development. Instead of trying to build from the ground up and increase dev time by an unneeded factor of a conservative 1000x, I’m going to use the linux kernel as a starting point and build a bash replacement.
With nVidia and AMD getting closer and closer to open source drivers, it is going to be easier to make them pure kernel mode drivers and abuse them without the need for X11.
Maybe later switch over to a 100% custom solution when we start using neural packs and isolinear chips and integrating with warp cores. But when that happens, we will probably be dead.
Any ways, on to development! I’ll create a google code spot to host the core files.
See you in the future!