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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!

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Today I bought some new stuff to play with:

a new notebook (Acer Aspite 5630; at least, that’s what it says). My old one (HP Pavilion dv1000) has served it’s time, and it is time for it to move on to the museum.

I also bought a brand new blue ray dvd player for only 160 euro, which is really not expensive The only thing I have to do now, is compile a custom kernel because the current kernel I use (2.6.22-14-generic) does not yet have built-in support for UDF2.5, which is the file system for blue ray dvd’s. After that, we’ll see if it works as I want it to.

For now, that’s the latest news about my cool stuff. I will be back!

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