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Anyone else here do OS Development?

What do you mean by OS development? Creating an own operating system? Contributing to the development of free operating systems? Does the OS stand for operating system at all?

I think he means Open Source development, but I thought it was Operating System at first, so I voted no.

I mucked around with developing an operating system, simple shell for a spare computer of mine...

I don't however, do open-source development - which of the two did you mean?

Done alittle of both. Had one or two contributions to go into netbsd and I did have a VERY small OS that I was planning on messing around with. Never really got into building the OS though .

heh , about operating system developing ,.. me and my friend always wanted to create an OS (written in ASM ofcourse) small enough to put it on a network card's chip and then run it from there (MS-DOS like , hehehe)

Even if you do mean operating system for OS, you still need to define OS. Does just the kernel count? If you write kenel modules does that count? What about writing applications for RTLinux which have real-time code running as a kernel module? Does writing shells count as OS? According to MS, IE is part of the OS.

-selket

have dealt a little bit with linux and linux kernel.. not to much either.