stevenup7002

Hi, my name is steven, I'm working on sendla os, we're looking for very expirienced programmers. We are using GCC and DJGPP for the dev, if you are interested please MSN me on: stevenup7004@yahoo.ie

Thanks,
-Steven :banana:

Narue

You're not likely to get "very expirienced programmers" with a vague post like this. We'll all assume that you suddenly decided that you want to do this, but don't have the abilities to pull it off and want experts to flock to you and do the work for free. When you want to hire programmers, and expecially when you want volunteers, you need to be as detailed as possible about what you're doing, how many people you have doing it, the current progress of the project, and most importantly, hint to what the people working on the project will get out of it.

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nnxion

What Narue says is right, current progress and what people get out of it are most important. Note that there is a ''job offers" forum where you can also post.
Haha what a website.

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coldDeath

Smashing Website...

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tempest

Yea, it looks like a great OS ... but I wouldn't buy a car that didn't ever get into a crash because it didn't go anywhere either...

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Polyphemus_

LOL... you really think that project is actually gonna work? You have been working on a command line, while you can't load anything from disk. Apparently, you don't realize how much work it is to implement an API like the windows API. Provide yourself a good base yourself, people won't help you with that, and when you actually have something big, already working people might be interested.

lectricpharaoh

<sigh> I'm not sure whether to mock this guy or not. I mean, mocking isn't nice, but this guy is asking for it. If 'Sendla OS' is supposed to understand English, I hope it does a better job than this guy. And what's this about crashing? I don't think any OS out there is intended to crash, but it looks like we're supposed to infer that they are, with the statement about how Sendla is 'desinged (sic) not to crash'.

If you want a laugh, click the 'Download' link. Apparently, it 'doesn't do much', but it will eat up a blank CD. Hahaha!

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stevenup7002

I did strongly warn people about using up a blank cd, use vmware or virtual pc, the new version of the os is different, and I know whats involved in making an os, we already have 2 programmers as a result of this topic

OpenLoop

Most of the time, the programs that run on the OS causes it to crash. So even if he intends to have a "crash free" OS, something is bound to go wrong either will the application or with the hardware and drivers unless you're the one developping all hardware and software for your system (kinda like apple a few years ago).

I'm not gonna mock him either, but i would suggest that he does some deep research before even thinking about developping an OS.

Darkhack

Windows, Mac, Linux. These are the big three we think of. Sure there are others, like BSD, Solaris and other unix-like operating sytems. But to my point. These operating systems have thousands of programmers. That's not to say you can't get make something great by your self. Just look at SkyOS, that was programmed by a single person for most of its lifetime. I think I read somewhere that he has other people helping him now. I am not doubting that Sendla OS as a whole is possible, because it very much is, however your hopes of having an OS that "runs windows applications, macintosh programs, linux programs and more" is almost zero.

I think it would be very possible to run windows/mac/linux programs if you were refeering to something like Java or a .net platform. But if you are saying that you can run these applications natively than thats a big problem. You would have to write your kernel to support all of their API's and except every possible command that could come from either of these systems. I won't say its impossible, because if you really think about it, it could be possible to emulate the entire operating systems core functions. It would basically be like programming VMWare into the OS except you would not only have to program the software but also the API's for that OS. One would have to emulate everything. Take in account that windows uses a registry while mac doesn't and these other differences ect, that would otherwise be impossible because of contradictions. One would also have to compile everything from source on this OS because if a new version of Linux/Mac/Windows comes out, you will have to rewrite a very large portion of your OS.

I am not mocking you. Just giving a little insight about the difficulty of writing such an OS that would run programs from all those platforms. WINE has been going at it for over a decade and it still isn't very good at running windows programs.

My personal recomendation is to start off with a version of Linux that will allow you to get really close to the operating system. Maybe something like Gentoo or LFS (Linux From Scratch) and when you get better you can write your own distrobution.