From: Sparky Mat <max@...>
Date: 2009-06-09T12:44:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby OS

Michal Suchanek wrote:

> However, there's a reason why Linux and BSDs have bazzilions of
> drivers that took years to develop and debug and half of them are
> still failing half of the time. There's simply way too much different
> hardware which is either not documented or has undocumented bugs so
> you will have hard time if you try to run on bare metal and support
> any hardware but the main memory.
> 
> Exotic microkernels won't help you either because they suffer from the
> same basic problem: they don't have drivers for most hardware so the
> chance you can boot anything based on them on your machine is pretty
> small.
> 

I agree with most of what you've said, and yes, I don't want to spend 
the next few years writing/re-writing drivers just to get stuff working. 
I had already shelved my Minix setup yesterday and am now setting up a 
RubyVM on Linux kernel. Well, starting with a default Debian 
installation and stripping out stuff now.
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