I have an antique server with qemu set up to run Xv6.[1] I wanted somebody to go through the course with me.[2] So far nobody has come aboard, and I haven't really started. If anyone here might be interested, please feel free to get in touch: notoles@metalvps.com. It would be super great to have a few friends along! Thank you!
So far, ten people have emailed expressing interest in joining our Xv6 study group. Plus three more said hello.
My idea is to start on the course itself tomorrow or the next day. I expect to invest at least an hour a day in the course itself. I also expect to post my notes and progress somewhere.
We can fill in the group structure as we go along. Maybe we all can keep in touch via email, irc, Jitsi, an HN thread, or set up our own Xv6 study group forum?
I am delighted to be in contact with so many other students! We have room for a few more if anyone else wants to join. Thank you all so much!
For those interested in a slightly more readable code and modern build system, shameless plug of my attempt at some xv6 modernization: https://github.com/NewbiZ/xv6
One of my favorite classes in college was Operating Systems, taught by Peter Fröhlich at Johns Hopkins. We modified and built new xv6 features. Here's the course webpage, with the excellent and fun assignments:
I'm working my way through this[1] operating systems book and a few of the exercises[2] require customizing and compiling Xv6. It's so cool to code your own scheduler or syscall and see it working on a actual OS.
Also, XINU, “ Operating System Design - The Xinu Approach”[0]
The book isn’t free, but I’ve found it to be fun to work through. The projects are centered around building and running on small boards like beaglebone, Galileo, and more recently raspi (although this isn’t covered in the book.)
I just scanned the Xv6 book [0] and it seems the book's exercises aren't really to build an OS from scratch, but modify an existing bare-bones OS.
When looking at the Xinu book index, it's not clear to me if the Xinu book is different. Does the Xinu book show how to write an OS from scratch or is the book also about making small changes to an existing OS?
I've taken the class at Purdue. The way the class works it was divided into 4 "projects" where you had to add features to Xinu. In my semester those were: a more advanced scheduler, locks, process permissions, and a file-system.
Excellent. I'm working on a local undergraduate class chain to reach Compiler, Operating System and Computer Graphics. The school is peanut comparing to MIT so we don't have difficult labs as in MIT or Berkeley's courses. I'll take MIT's after I get the basics from my university. Hopefully this can smooth the cliff a bit.
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I have an antique server with qemu set up to run Xv6.[1] I wanted somebody to go through the course with me.[2] So far nobody has come aboard, and I haven't really started. If anyone here might be interested, please feel free to get in touch: notoles@metalvps.com. It would be super great to have a few friends along! Thank you!
Best wishes and kindest regards,
Tom
[1] https://lowendbox.com/blog/how-to-compile-the-3-items-needed...
[2] https://lowendbox.com/blog/invitation-to-join-me-for-mits-fr...
https://metalvps.com/Xv6/
I wasn't expecting such a big response! Thank you to all the guys who joined! Thank you HN!
Already have one person for our Xv6 study circle! Thank you HN! Anybody else?
I'm going to sleep now, but if anybody emails me, I will for sure reply in the morning.
Best!
Tom
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My idea is to start on the course itself tomorrow or the next day. I expect to invest at least an hour a day in the course itself. I also expect to post my notes and progress somewhere.
We can fill in the group structure as we go along. Maybe we all can keep in touch via email, irc, Jitsi, an HN thread, or set up our own Xv6 study group forum?
I am delighted to be in contact with so many other students! We have room for a few more if anyone else wants to join. Thank you all so much!
We might even have room for even a few more!
Thanks guys! Thank you HN <3
Thanks for your kind words.
I read your comment[1] which explains what you are doing and suggests by implication why you might think you are insufficiently prepared.
However, no law requires perfect preparedness. Why not take a few small bites of delicious dessert and see how they taste?
Best wishes and kindest regards,
Tom
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32314583
I didn't find a mention of the original copyright.
https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~phf/2016/fall/cs318/
[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ [2] https://github.com/remzi-arpacidusseau/ostep-projects
The book isn’t free, but I’ve found it to be fun to work through. The projects are centered around building and running on small boards like beaglebone, Galileo, and more recently raspi (although this isn’t covered in the book.)
[0] https://xinu.cs.purdue.edu/
When looking at the Xinu book index, it's not clear to me if the Xinu book is different. Does the Xinu book show how to write an OS from scratch or is the book also about making small changes to an existing OS?
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[0]: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2021/xv6/book-riscv-rev2.pd...
I've taken the class at Purdue. The way the class works it was divided into 4 "projects" where you had to add features to Xinu. In my semester those were: a more advanced scheduler, locks, process permissions, and a file-system.
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