LCARS OS Development Blog

Made a little bit of progress on the code base in the last few days.  Not much really.  Just moved a copy of the Minix source over to the trunk and cleaned out the parts I wasn’t going to be using.  Given the type of interface this is suppose to have, the man pages and *nix commands were moot.  Next few steps is to get it compiled and a test boot of the kernel in a safe environment and make sure a different kind of shell can be loaded.  As I think about the OS, it has dawned on me that the only use for the kernel in this case is to boot the computer, turn on 64 bit mode and load the shell.  The shell will load the drivers and everything else.

In essence, turning the shell into the real kernel.  might change that before I get to far into development to something that might be better suited.

Hmm….since this is going to be a client server environment, going to have to make 2 kinds of shells.  one purely server side, the other that loads up via a BOOTP or similar.  That would probably be better.  Server only needs network and IO support anyways.  Everything else can be inputed client side.  Now to just get my hands on one of these.

Just got Google Apps setup for this domain.  Disabled all the stuff I don’t think we could use.  Currently only have enabled the start page, email, and chat.  Why is this important? Well, gives a central location hosted else where for the developers to communicate in case this server goes down for what ever reason.  Also because I just wanted to try out Google Apps and see if it would be viable for the corporation I work for.

Alright.  Got the forums setup now.  All is good there.  Have it sectioned off into standards development and OS development.  Hopefully the great host over at the LCARS Standards Development Board will allow us to host the forums since they took theirs down.  Either way, its good to see I’m finally doing something with the domain I bought over a year ago.

The SVN repo is also setup with anonymous checkout. http://svn.lcarsos.net/lcarsos is the URL for it.  Currently only has a copy of the Minix base code.  Planning on using it to jump start development since it is already setup with how I want the kernel to be.  Kernel by itself with drivers in user space.

It’s been a long time … OK, it’s been 8 months. I’ve been busy. Anyways, development is still moving as fast as it ever was (snail’s pace), but it’s still moving. Ill have a wiki put up soon to begin discussions on various features ranging from the core details of the kernel to all apps associated with the OS. Look for new things coming this way!!!

Got the initial software up and running on the development server. Using MediaWiki and all. Havn’t had too much time to change many of the pages around so ALOT of the default text is still there. Anyone interested can head to http://www.lcarsos.net/ . In the next few weeks I intend to get a bit more to get things going. Until then, good night all.

EDIT: Wiki software is installed…just not fully configured yet.  Address is http://wiki.lcarsos.net