Re: desktop replacement OS; Darwin/Webkit project
Re: desktop replacement OS; Darwin/Webkit project
- Subject: Re: desktop replacement OS; Darwin/Webkit project
- From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 12:54:56 +0100
Le 2 déc. 2010 à 12:38, Esteban Vincenzi a écrit : because it is a challenge? "open source", or "free enough"?
I mean "Open source". Lots of drivers and critical OS parts are closed source, like the Graphic drivers for instance. I'm curious to see how such Webkit based OS perform without any GPU acceleration support (and without OpenGL). The kernel should be Unix, it can be w-e Plan 9 uses as kernel. I chosed Darwin.
The license that I will use is European Union Public License.
Solaris is basically deprecated since Sun became part of Oracle.
*BSD may be a nice second option...
FreeBSD is AFAIK the most active BSD community, so I would probably go this way if I had to develop a modern OS and want to avoid linux. Using a "kernel" with partially available sources and no community to work on it is probably not the choice I would have done. Linux is a mess, and my project will not be "another Linux distro" (since it is an ego-based project, being named after its founder... Linux has some issues from the very beginning, by starting as a clone of a copy of Unix, I deem the Linux kernel [and the GTK/QT toolkits] unaceptable for a "Windows OS" deprecator).
Il giorno dic 2, 2553 BE, alle ore 04:44, Jean-Daniel Dupas ha scritto: Le 2 déc. 2010 à 11:36, Esteban Vincenzi a écrit : hi,
I have a project for an OS interface that replaces the desktop as metaphor.
I have chosen Darwin as kernel, and Webkit as... canvas manager (deprecates windowing manager)
Is there any reason you choose a kernel that is not open source enough to rebuild a working OS and that barely supports running on anything that is not a Mac hardware ?
It is a dual design/software_development project; but I think the general architecture is sufficiently diagramed.
I already know Java (love the language, hate the JVM) and was starting to learn C++ but consider it useless since I will use ObjC instead.
Are there any "C book" (the one made by the original creators, which I'm not interested in learning) style link, book or other reference which I can read to learn ObjC?
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