LCARS OS Development Blog

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.

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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!