Hi,

Just wondering if there are any other operating system
developers here.

Suppose evryone who compiles linux from scratch is a o/s developer , or who does some Kernel or Hurd hacking ?

No I mean actually developing your own operating system from scratch, including writing the boot sector and loader, kernel, memory and task management modules etc. Not just modifying someone else's.

Why would you do that when you can do more exciting things by building on top of other's work? Using e.g. OSKit to do the low level stuff and focusing on the 'fun stuff' will make the world a better place.

hmm, it not being open source to any degree implys you plan on making it used commonly. Yet only your working on it, and the fact that it would have to be incredibly ground breaking in order to be used by other people...

I don't get this..

Who says I intend to get it *used* by anyone. The reason I'm doing it is for the intellectual challenge. I may make it open source in the future, but have no plans to do so at the moment.

Hahaha i found something fun out of this http://syllable.sourceforge.net - pity they havent split the low level stuff up into machine independent , nice POSIX OS for Pentiums hhaha.

Linux Gazette has been running a series on writing your own toy x86 OS/kernel:

part 1: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue77/krishnakumar.html
part 2: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue79/krishnakumar.html
part 3: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue82/raghu.html

The last installment was in September's issue. There should be another installment in December or so (based on the space between the other installments).

http://lukyanov.port5.com/intrests.html i found a good thing here.