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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #135 on: January 11, 2011, 10:14:51 pm »
A lot of the influence for KnightOS came from Ubuntu.  It was originally going to be called LinTIx, and have an interface based on GNOME.

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #136 on: May 14, 2011, 03:22:45 pm »
I don't know if this really fits in the feature requests section, but I think the size of the OS itself should be kept to the absolute minimum, and let every feature be an application. This way, you won't waste memory on the features you never use.

BTW: Look at windows. The windows OS can do nothing. If you want to calculate, you use the 'calculator' application, If you want to edit text, you use notepad.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #137 on: May 14, 2011, 03:30:41 pm »
^ That. I think that's what Sir wants, but just in case, seconded.

BTW: Look at windows. The windows OS can do nothing. If you want to calculate, you use the 'calculator' application, If you want to edit text, you use notepad.

Or look at Linux-based OSes, which do only the absolute fundamentals (kernel stuff) and leaves everything (file system, GUI, everything) to installable and customizable apps :)
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #138 on: May 14, 2011, 04:36:18 pm »
I don't know if this really fits in the feature requests section, but I think the size of the OS itself should be kept to the absolute minimum, and let every feature be an application. This way, you won't waste memory on the features you never use.
That's the plan.  The entire kernel is <4000 bytes, and fits on one page.  The rest of the ROM (save some places for obvious reasons) is where the applications go, and the user files go.

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #139 on: May 14, 2011, 04:58:44 pm »
I don't know if this really fits in the feature requests section, but I think the size of the OS itself should be kept to the absolute minimum, and let every feature be an application. This way, you won't waste memory on the features you never use.
That's the plan.  The entire kernel is <4000 bytes, and fits on one page.  The rest of the ROM (save some places for obvious reasons) is where the applications go, and the user files go.

We can't use the certificate for storage? :P




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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #140 on: May 14, 2011, 05:23:39 pm »
I don't know if this really fits in the feature requests section, but I think the size of the OS itself should be kept to the absolute minimum, and let every feature be an application. This way, you won't waste memory on the features you never use.
That's the plan.  The entire kernel is <4000 bytes, and fits on one page.  The rest of the ROM (save some places for obvious reasons) is where the applications go, and the user files go.

We can't use the certificate for storage? :P
No, but you can use the boot page ;)

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #141 on: May 14, 2011, 07:53:13 pm »
I don't know if this really fits in the feature requests section, but I think the size of the OS itself should be kept to the absolute minimum, and let every feature be an application. This way, you won't waste memory on the features you never use.
That's the plan.  The entire kernel is <4000 bytes, and fits on one page.  The rest of the ROM (save some places for obvious reasons) is where the applications go, and the user files go.

We can't use the certificate for storage? :P
No, but you can use the boot page ;)
Page 0 or Page 1F/3F/7F.  I'm assuming 0, since the other pages shouldn't be writable, but knowing SirCmpwn...

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #142 on: May 14, 2011, 08:00:30 pm »
I don't know if this really fits in the feature requests section, but I think the size of the OS itself should be kept to the absolute minimum, and let every feature be an application. This way, you won't waste memory on the features you never use.
That's the plan.  The entire kernel is <4000 bytes, and fits on one page.  The rest of the ROM (save some places for obvious reasons) is where the applications go, and the user files go.

We can't use the certificate for storage? :P
No, but you can use the boot page ;)
Page 0 or Page 1F/3F/7F.  I'm assuming 0, since the other pages shouldn't be writable, but knowing SirCmpwn...
Considering ROM stands for Read-Only Memory it'd be kind of a breakthrough :D
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #143 on: May 14, 2011, 08:01:26 pm »
I don't know if this really fits in the feature requests section, but I think the size of the OS itself should be kept to the absolute minimum, and let every feature be an application. This way, you won't waste memory on the features you never use.
That's the plan.  The entire kernel is <4000 bytes, and fits on one page.  The rest of the ROM (save some places for obvious reasons) is where the applications go, and the user files go.

We can't use the certificate for storage? :P
No, but you can use the boot page ;)
Page 0 or Page 1F/3F/7F.  I'm assuming 0, since the other pages shouldn't be writable, but knowing SirCmpwn...
Considering ROM stands for Read-Only Memory it'd be kind of a breakthrough :D
Hey, I'm just saying SirCmpwn has skills. I bet he could do it.

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #144 on: May 15, 2011, 03:26:52 pm »
It was a joke :P
Page00 is restricted from filesystem access, the reason being that it's the kernel and would be bad to mess up.  So is the boot page, usb page (84+, read-only), and certificate pages.

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #145 on: May 19, 2011, 08:39:09 am »
It was a joke :P
Page00 is restricted from filesystem access, the reason being that it's the kernel and would be bad to mess up.  So is the boot page, usb page (84+, read-only), and certificate pages.
I know it was a joke. I was making a joke too....

So any real progress on this, or is it all imaginary? </nomorejokes>

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #146 on: May 19, 2011, 09:33:49 am »
There's progress.  I've added some filesystem code, fixed compatibility to work with all supported models, and started adding kernel debugging.

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #147 on: May 19, 2011, 07:18:41 pm »
YAY!
Also, I should probably start playing around with it again.
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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #148 on: May 20, 2011, 01:48:08 pm »
Yeah, especially since I spent so much time getting it working on linux :P

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Re: Feature Requests
« Reply #149 on: May 20, 2011, 09:19:15 pm »
Yeah, especially since I spent so much time getting it working on linux :P
I wish I could play around with it a little bit. :D