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<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>> You are considering the current kernel and distribution so insufficent that you are going to start from scratch?<br><br>I don't by any means consider the Linux kernel insufficient, I just want the FreeVMS operating system to be more than just a set of patches applied to another kernel and a custom user space application. I just think we can do better, and I aim to do just that.<br><br>> It's not sexy to keep what you have ^_^</div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br>You're actually being more insightful than you intended to be - for FreeVMS to be taken serious as an operating system, we should actually /be/ a separate operating system, not just another Linux distribution. <br><br>The kernel is coming along nicely, and once I complete the basic I/O drivers I will check in the code (with extensive line-by-line and
external documentation). Problems with my laptop's power supply and rapidly approaching finals are cutting into my developmental time, but I will check in a working kernel as soon as it's finished. I just don't want to check in incomplete/non-working code, otherwise I would checked it in by now. Let me get the basics written and then I'll open it up to other contributions, as long as the kernel's architectural goals (described in the documentation) are kept.<br><br>Thanks,<br>AC<br><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "freevms-request@rayleigh.systella.fr" <freevms-request@rayleigh.systella.fr><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> freevms@rayleigh.systella.fr<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, April 24, 2009 6:00:03 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
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charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>It's not sexy to keep what you have ^_^<br><br><br>On Wed, Apr 22, 2009
at 3:18 PM, Roar Thron?s <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:roart@nvg.ntnu.no" target="_blank" href="mailto:roart@nvg.ntnu.no">roart@nvg.ntnu.no</a>> wrote:<br><br>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 12:49:03AM -0700, anthony c wrote:<br>> ><br>> > My goal is to provide the FreeVMS project with a custom kernel from<br>> scratch. Seeing as how the FreeVMS userspace will be OpenVMS-compatible<br>> regardless of the kernel architecture, I am very open to suggestions<br>> regarding the kernel's design. At the moment, I aim to make it a hybrid<br>> kernel (monolithic with loadable modules while also providing a userspace<br>> interface), but if anyone can provide enough reasoning otherwise with<br>> regards to OpenVMS compatibility I will change the architectural plans for<br>> the kernel.<br>><br>> You are considering the current kernel and distribution so insufficent that<br>> you are going to start from
scratch?<br>><br>> --<br>>
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