Thread: I need help debugging this entire Linux Kernel I wrote myself in about 2 weeks to on

Originally Posted by Sir Galahad

...said the troll.

Wow, so stating the facts is now trolling eh? Next you're going to call everyone in the world a troll for saying 1 plus 1 equals 2 XD

Originally Posted by Sir Galahad

...said the troll.

Said the troll to the person not really trolling. I assure you I at least wrote all this code by myself with the help of the book The Art of Linux Kernel Design because the actual code for even the Linux Kernel varies from distribution to distribution and I had no idea what it was. Besides what kind of kernel or whatever I was entering the code back into the computer with the help of the book uses the variable as actually stated being the word "bread". I mean come on not only did I enter all this into a computer to use g++ to compile and qemu to run it just to see what it would do myself, but it did actually take me about 2 weeks to a month in July and I had no other choice if I wanted to see not only how difficult it was for Linus Torvalds to at least enter all this code I have to figure out what the heck his code does that makes it so special or great that so many companies made so many seperate distributions that it was a pain to get most of them if not all of them just to see which ones are actually pretty decent or good enough to want to use instead of Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X. Anyway I'm sure you'll keep calling me a troll though, so whatever if your going to keep calling me that because I had to start from the bottom and work my way up instead of start from the top in the computer industry and either way I did my own work, even if I needed help from that book just to see his code and besides if I'm not mistaken Linus did make the Linux Kernel open source so that users could use it how they wanted to and I just wanted to see how he came up with the code from the closest experience possible regardless of if it's still Linus's work. I'm not wrong that if I knew how to fix this code that I entered that I would be able to write an Operating System am I and if I knew how to make a better Graphical User Interface than most Linux distributions that I would really be on to something as close to being as successful as Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X am I regardless if I'm not at that point yet. Many thanks to Linus though for writing or creating the healthiest continuation of UNIX though and providing us with an Open Source Kernel to help show people like me what a kernel can do and what other bare minimal programs are needed to create an Operating System regardless if I have a lot of debugging to do in order for it to actually be a successful cause in the process of duplicating his work the hard way all by myself. Thanks for nothing in quest for help.

Originally Posted by laserlight

LoneKernelWriter was asking for feedback, so I gave it.

That's the truth: if you have not found out what a community needs because you haven't done the foundational work in finding that out, and then your work is itself grossly incomplete, then of course your work has no benefit to that community at all.

It doesn't mean that such work is meaningless: maybe you're just scratching your own itch, and that's fine. In that case LoneKernelWriter should keep in mind what christop wrote in post #12, but there's no harm in keeping at it since it could be about the journey rather than the destination. However, there's no point fretting "if anything (LoneKernelWriter) did actually did anything to help the community": maybe some day it will, but certainly not yet.

Thanks for at least your encouragement as this was as close as I'll ever be to being as great as people like Linus or Bill Gates in terms of Computer Science, even if I'm an Applied Computer Scientist.

Originally Posted by Structure

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Wow! Did you manage to write a kernel with multitasking, multi-user, networking, portable to dozens of architectures, with support for thousands of device drivers and which can scale down to a wristwatch and up to a supercomputer the size of a room? That is where Linux stands.

Thousands (something like 19,000) of programmers from many different companies (and independent programmers) have worked on Linux for decades. It currently contains over 27 million lines of well-tested (Coverity has called Linux the "benchmark of quality") and well-documented code. If anyone believes that they can develop something anywhere close to that by themselves then they'd only be fooling themselves. If you could sustain writing 450,000 lines of very good code per year (that's 1,726 lines per day, 5 days a week), then in about 60 years you could maybe get close to where Linux is today. But, of course, in 60 years Linux will be far ahead of where it is now.

In contrast, the kernel in UNIX V6 was only 10,000 lines of code, which can be implemented by a single developer in a few years. It was a decent system at the time (it was multitasking and multi-user), but it supported only about a dozen different types of devices, only one architecture, etc., not to mention it lacked networking because that wasn't really a thing then, besides experimental networks like ARPANET.