


> So, just a hobby. It won't be big and professional like GNU, then?
Ha! 😅 No, that certainly won’t happen this time. 🥴
(What an exciting time that was when there were *new* operating systems. 🤔)
> So, just a hobby. It won't be big and professional like GNU, then?
Ha! 😅 No, that certainly won’t happen this time. 🥴
(What an exciting time that was when there were *new* operating systems. 🤔)
> So, just a hobby. It won't be big and professional like GNU, then?
Ha! 😅 No, that certainly won’t happen this time. 🥴
(What an exciting time that was when there were *new* operating systems. 🤔)
> So, just a hobby. It won't be big and professional like GNU, then?
Ha! 😅 No, that certainly won’t happen this time. 🥴
(What an exciting time that was when there were *new* operating systems. 🤔)




I don’t plan on making that code public. This is purely a learning project for myself. I think going for real-mode 8086 + BIOS is a good idea as a *first step*. I am well aware that this isn’t going anywhere – but now I’ve gained some experience and learned a ton of stuff, so maybe 32 bit or even 64 bit mode might be doable in the future? We’ll see.
It provides a syscall interface, can launch processes, read/write files (in a very simple filesystem).
Here’s a video where I run it natively on my old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop (and Warp 3 later in the video, because why not):
https://movq.de/v/893daaa548/los86-p133-warp3.mp4
(Sorry for the skewed video. It’s a glossy display and super hard to film this.)
It starts with the laptop’s boot menu and then boots into the kernel and launches a shell as PID 1. From there, I can launch other processes (anything I enter is a new process, except for the exit at the end) and they return the shell afterwards.
And a screenshot running in QEMU:

I don’t plan on making that code public. This is purely a learning project for myself. I think going for real-mode 8086 + BIOS is a good idea as a *first step*. I am well aware that this isn’t going anywhere – but now I’ve gained some experience and learned a ton of stuff, so maybe 32 bit or even 64 bit mode might be doable in the future? We’ll see.
It provides a syscall interface, can launch processes, read/write files (in a very simple filesystem).
Here’s a video where I run it natively on my old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop (and Warp 3 later in the video, because why not):
https://movq.de/v/893daaa548/los86-p133-warp3.mp4
(Sorry for the skewed video. It’s a glossy display and super hard to film this.)
It starts with the laptop’s boot menu and then boots into the kernel and launches a shell as PID 1. From there, I can launch other processes (anything I enter is a new process, except for the exit at the end) and they return the shell afterwards.
And a screenshot running in QEMU:

I don’t plan on making that code public. This is purely a learning project for myself. I think going for real-mode 8086 + BIOS is a good idea as a *first step*. I am well aware that this isn’t going anywhere – but now I’ve gained some experience and learned a ton of stuff, so maybe 32 bit or even 64 bit mode might be doable in the future? We’ll see.
It provides a syscall interface, can launch processes, read/write files (in a very simple filesystem).
Here’s a video where I run it natively on my old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop (and Warp 3 later in the video, because why not):
https://movq.de/v/893daaa548/los86-p133-warp3.mp4
(Sorry for the skewed video. It’s a glossy display and super hard to film this.)
It starts with the laptop’s boot menu and then boots into the kernel and launches a shell as PID 1. From there, I can launch other processes (anything I enter is a new process, except for the exit at the end) and they return the shell afterwards.
And a screenshot running in QEMU:

I don’t plan on making that code public. This is purely a learning project for myself. I think going for real-mode 8086 + BIOS is a good idea as a *first step*. I am well aware that this isn’t going anywhere – but now I’ve gained some experience and learned a ton of stuff, so maybe 32 bit or even 64 bit mode might be doable in the future? We’ll see.
It provides a syscall interface, can launch processes, read/write files (in a very simple filesystem).
Here’s a video where I run it natively on my old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop (and Warp 3 later in the video, because why not):
https://movq.de/v/893daaa548/los86-p133-warp3.mp4
(Sorry for the skewed video. It’s a glossy display and super hard to film this.)
It starts with the laptop’s boot menu and then boots into the kernel and launches a shell as PID 1. From there, I can launch other processes (anything I enter is a new process, except for the exit at the end) and they return the shell afterwards.
And a screenshot running in QEMU:

beautiful day out. the holiday distance classic was today too it turns out so plenty of runners to run with on the way back in. did pretty much 5km intervals. did not realize it but could have possibly broke my PB in the half marathon... oh well, great run!
#running
beautiful day out. the holiday distance classic was today too it turns out so plenty of runners to run with on the way back in. did pretty much 5km intervals. did not realize it but could have possibly broke my PB in the half marathon... oh well, great run!
#running
beautiful day out. the holiday distance classic was today too it turns out so plenty of runners to run with on the way back in. did pretty much 5km intervals. did not realize it but could have possibly broke my PB in the half marathon... oh well, great run!
#running
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> Early on, I was thinking about WAN IP address changes as well but it hasn't happened in ~2.5 years with this ISP.
You mean to say you have the same public IP all the time? For 2.5 years now? Without paying extra? 🤔~
> Early on, I was thinking about WAN IP address changes as well but it hasn't happened in ~2.5 years with this ISP.
You mean to say you have the same public IP all the time? For 2.5 years now? Without paying extra? 🤔~
> Early on, I was thinking about WAN IP address changes as well but it hasn't happened in ~2.5 years with this ISP.
You mean to say you have the same public IP all the time? For 2.5 years now? Without paying extra? 🤔~
> Early on, I was thinking about WAN IP address changes as well but it hasn't happened in ~2.5 years with this ISP.
You mean to say you have the same public IP all the time? For 2.5 years now? Without paying extra? 🤔~
> QOTD: Do you have a way to get back into your home network if you get locked out?
No. My network is firewalled and the only way into it is physically being on it.
> QOTD: Do you have a way to get back into your home network if you get locked out?
No. My network is firewalled and the only way into it is physically being on it.
ldd
's output into my image's content would do, _-I've Just found about that one by the way.-_ but I'll never know until I try.
ldd
's output into my image's content would do, _-I've Just found about that one by the way.-_ but I'll never know until I try.
ldd
's output into my image's content would do, _-I've Just found about that one by the way.-_ but I'll never know until I try.
scratch
#container image and decided I wanted to play with it... I'm probably going to end up rebuilding a LOT of images. l
~/htwtxt » podman image list htwtxt
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.7-scratch 2d5c6fb7862f About a minute ago 12 MB
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.5-alpine 13610a37e347 4 weeks ago 20.1 MB
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.7-alpine 2a5c560ee6b7 4 weeks ago 20.1 MB
docker.io/buckket/htwtxt latest c0e33b2913c6 8 years ago 778 MB
scratch
#container image and decided I wanted to play with it... I'm probably going to end up rebuilding a LOT of images. l
~/htwtxt » podman image list htwtxt
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.7-scratch 2d5c6fb7862f About a minute ago 12 MB
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.5-alpine 13610a37e347 4 weeks ago 20.1 MB
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.7-alpine 2a5c560ee6b7 4 weeks ago 20.1 MB
docker.io/buckket/htwtxt latest c0e33b2913c6 8 years ago 778 MB
scratch
#container image and decided I wanted to play with it... I'm probably going to end up rebuilding a LOT of images. l
~/htwtxt » podman image list htwtxt
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.7-scratch 2d5c6fb7862f About a minute ago 12 MB
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.5-alpine 13610a37e347 4 weeks ago 20.1 MB
localhost/htwtxt 1.0.7-alpine 2a5c560ee6b7 4 weeks ago 20.1 MB
docker.io/buckket/htwtxt latest c0e33b2913c6 8 years ago 778 MB