Verdis OS - Baby Stages - OS Development Enviornment Machine and Bootloader stage
Alright some of my website visitors may or may not know about the development I have embarked upon, Verdis. An operating system in development single handed by me. The first drop release of Verdis won’t be as powerful I can predict, but I believe with continious and further development over time, Verdis will be something to look forward to. Right now I’m looking for a cheap computer to start development of Verdis on. Right now I only have my cheap Dell laptop, but I don’t think getting a cheap desktop pc somewhere that can do the job will be hard to find. Once I have my desktop PC, I will be setting up a development environment… IN order for me to have a proper painless OS development environment I will require a PC which has an adapted development environment which meets a certain number of requirements:
- * Should get to rapidly test my newly compiled kernel
- * Should never have to reboot my development machine
- * Should not need to use floppies neither CD’s and so on as a storage medium for my OS
After I have my environment setup, the first part of development I will need to cover would be a boot loader to load my kernel. There are a few I have now heavily considered. I’m still unsure, but I have my eyes on Grub2, lilo, and ppcboot, and Redboot caught my eye also. Which I am all studying. I am sure Verdis will be successful, the kernel will be linux 2.6 of course customized and modded for Verdis.
GNU GRUB in non-graphical mode Loading Knoppix….
————- IN OTHER NEWS
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A friend from my school, Nick, has just started his own web page proudly hosted by Angelfire. Called Cube Computer, you guys everyone will and must have to check out his computers, he knows computers like a doctor knows a body. Check his page out…
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