[HN Gopher] ToaruOS: A Hobby Operating System
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       ToaruOS: A Hobby Operating System
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2020-07-26 06:23 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (toaruos.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (toaruos.org)
        
       | wicket wrote:
       | It's worth noting that there is also the hilarious PonyOS which
       | is based on ToaruOS. The main website[1] seems to be down right
       | now, but you can check it out on GitHub[2].
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       | [1] http://www.ponyos.org/
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       | [2] https://github.com/klange/ponyos
        
         | rwmj wrote:
         | https://web.archive.org/web/20200722025026/https://ponyos.or...
        
       | nonbirithm wrote:
       | This began life as a hobby CS project started at the time the
       | author was in college. The allocator was based on a custom
       | malloc() written for a systems programming course (I was in the
       | same course at one point).
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       | https://github.com/klange/toaruos/blob/bb91a91cac2793daa213d...
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       | There's some really early screenshots here.
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       | https://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=202371#p202371
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       | I think before he even graduated the OS had a graphical mode. On
       | OSDev you'd have a screen sharing thread with people posting
       | their text mode OS projects and then he would post this one with
       | this windowing system with the anime background and it would
       | stand out that much more. And it was all made by a single person.
       | In college.
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       | Some people are just way, way out there.
        
       | akkartik wrote:
       | A nice thread about it from 6 years ago:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566217
        
       | adler0901 wrote:
       | https://github.com/klange/toaruos
       | 
       | for the curious if the link is still slashdotted
        
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