[HN Gopher] ToaruOS: A Hobby Operating System ___________________________________________________________________ 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]. | | [1] http://www.ponyos.org/ | | [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). | | https://github.com/klange/toaruos/blob/bb91a91cac2793daa213d... | | There's some really early screenshots here. | | https://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=202371#p202371 | | 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. | | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-07-26 23:01 UTC)