Oh boy.. this is a perfect Show HN to wake up to :)
With the wild pace of everything going on right now. I can’t be alone feeling it truly captures the hacker spirit. Echoes to early Lisp days, or maybe my high school side quest to learn Minix? Ie building from scratch and seeing what’s possible.
Sadly most of us will never have the staying power (well definitely not myself) and yet you gave us a little window into your passion.
Thank you for the inspiration. Especially the focus on compounding small wins and including us in your orbit. Long live Anos
Thank you! A project like this is all about compounding small wins for sure, just building one thing on top of the previous thing until (hopefully) one day it’s a complete thing :D
I’m glad you found some inspiration and really appreciate your kind comment :)
I love the adjective "hand-written" and I'm gonna add it to my repositories.
Although I don't practice vibe coding, I'v observed that the first principle of vibe coding is to never look at the generated code. (You learn the code from external metrics, such output correctness and memory usage)
> Anos is a modern, opinionated, non-POSIX operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU-Linux®) for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines.
Love that Linus quip! Hopefully it will be. Non-POSIX sounds exciting
In my opinion if you learned something from it, it was useful. Bonus points if others learn from it as well, but if not then as long as you did then it doesn’t matter. AI age or not.
I’ve always found hobby OS projects like this interesting, and I hope there’s never a shortage of them in the future
Great project. I highly appreciate the docs, great resource for learning.
I haven't read through them yet, but I'm curious what forces the minimum requirement of 256MiB RAM?
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> I don't know how useful projects like Anos are any more
They have the same utility they always have. They help you and the people you share it with learn. So it's exceedingly useful.
> given we now live in the age of AI coding
We live in an age of AI overinvestment. I would reserve judgement until they prove they actually have something.
> We live in an age of AI overinvestment. I would reserve judgement until they prove they actually have something.
Haha yes, that's a very fair comment!
With the wild pace of everything going on right now. I can’t be alone feeling it truly captures the hacker spirit. Echoes to early Lisp days, or maybe my high school side quest to learn Minix? Ie building from scratch and seeing what’s possible.
Sadly most of us will never have the staying power (well definitely not myself) and yet you gave us a little window into your passion.
Thank you for the inspiration. Especially the focus on compounding small wins and including us in your orbit. Long live Anos
I’m glad you found some inspiration and really appreciate your kind comment :)
Although I don't practice vibe coding, I'v observed that the first principle of vibe coding is to never look at the generated code. (You learn the code from external metrics, such output correctness and memory usage)
> Anos is a modern, opinionated, non-POSIX operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU-Linux®) for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines.
Love that Linus quip! Hopefully it will be. Non-POSIX sounds exciting
I’ve always found hobby OS projects like this interesting, and I hope there’s never a shortage of them in the future
> I don't know how useful projects like Anos are any more
I get pretty excited when project like Anos come out, I love Anos. Long live all Anos.
Looking at syscalls.h, it looks like it abstracts the platform details, for example.
Is SYSTEM for amd64 source-compatible with the riscv version?