From: SASADA Koichi <ko1@...>
Date: 2009-06-04T18:45:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby OS

Hi,

I know one laboratory trying to such a kernel (where I had been when I'm
a student).

# And this lab made a Perl OS, last year.

Sparky Mat wrote::
> I was considering porting the Ruby 1.9 VM to bare metal (something
> similar to Cleese - http://code.google.com/p/cleese/). I was wondering
> if someone is already working on this. The end goal is to have a Ruby
> OS, with everything running on the VM. I have yet to analyze the
> complete changes needed.
> 
> My original idea was for such a (Ruby) OS to be coupled with a versioned
> file-system to have a completely rollback-able OS where the whole
> userland and parts of the system land are in pure Ruby, with patches
> being .diff files :-) .
> 
> I have a discussion running on the OSDev forums regarding this (Link:
> http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=20220)
> 
> So is there such a project already?
> 
> TLDR: Is someone working on porting the Ruby 1.9.x VM to bare metal?


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