Welcome to the blog of Can Sar, a Stanford CS major. This blog is made up of my thoughts on Computer Science and the computer industry, as well as ever exciting tales from my life.
After reading an article on SkyOS today I felt the urge to go ahead and install it on Virtual PC. SkyOS is a hobby OS and one of the most popular hobby OSes there are. It is also written by an Austrian, Robert Szeleney, which I find very impressive.
SkyOS runs on x86 hardware only and has some interesting software available, including a browser, DVD Player, and OpenGL renderers. It has a TCP/IP stack, though the TCP layer apparently needs to be rewritten, OpenGL rendering for the windowing system, and a Linux compatibility layer. This is quite advanced stuff for a hobby OS and I am seriously considering choosing this for my OS project to work on. Unfortunately, I am as of now still unable to run it. The problem is caused by some file system issues in Virtual PC, but unfortunately debugging output to a Virtual COM device does not work either. I have a few ideas of how to fix the problem, and I will send the developers an email some time this weekend.
I hope I can get it working.
Hey... This is nathan palmer from the SkyOS Software development team. Did you ever get your problems worked out? Or are you still having trouble?
Nathan Palmer
Posted by Nathan Palmer on January 12, 2004 02:46 PM