Aug 08 2009 09:07 am
Posted by coen under Computers,Programming,c++
FreeNOS
For some time now, I’ve spent my free time working on an experimental Operating System called FreeNOS (Free Niek’s Operating System) and it’s about time I tell you something about it.
FreeNOS was invented by a friend of mine: Niek Linnenbank and is an microkernel OS written in C++, purely for learning purposes. By far the most work on FreeNOS is done by Niek but there is also some work on my name: I’ve been working on a time server, a parser library and the new challenge ahead is writing my own filesystem (as has Niek done with his LinnFS).
If you’re curious you can check out the code from Google Code and read all about FreeNOS on it’s website. It’s all very well documented (one of the main purposes of FreeNOS) and there is a developers manual on the way. I cannot emphasize enough that it’s possible for anyone with some programming experience to contribute to FreeNOS, regardless of what you want to do. So go on and explore!
Niek on 08 Aug 2009 at 11:45 pm #
Nice blog Coen! I think we’re gonna have a great time hacking on FreeNOS @ HAR2009