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Operating System Development Series (2008)

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
5
submitters
5
observed span
2013–2016
peak thread · 36 comments
166 pts
latest 20+ return · 2016-06-04
134 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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If you are also interested in OS development, Stanford has developed Pintos[1] which is designed to teach OS concepts: threads, system calls (and the security thereof), virtual memory and filesystems. [1] - http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/pintos.h...

octo_t·166-point thread·

It seems that open-source operating system projects either never quite get past the point of having a kernel that can print stuff, read/write FAT32, and run a couple of userland processes, or they attempt to implement POSIX. There's a couple of attempts to build something different - Haiku, based on the design of BeOS; and Redox, written in Rust and implementing access to the filesystem as URLs - but where's all the actual OS research? Where's the service-oriented OS built…

This looks awesome.

nsnick·2-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
310

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Total comments
53

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2013-08-24Operating System Development Series (2008)First breakout · Best threadnetworked16616
2015-02-26Operating System Development Tutorialsluu21
2015-12-09Operating System Development SeriesCheyana50
2016-04-12Os dev tutorialsgamapuna30
2016-06-04Operating System Development Series (2008)Latest 20+ point returndingo_bat13436