Just a sneak preview of in-development code. This API is designed for 64-bit platforms, and may have to be de-optimised a bit if I do any 32-bit ports in the fucture.
SDL etc. usually use a plain struct (like my guirect struct) for passing rectangles, but for kernel system calls it can be better to avoid using too many pointers as long as this method (encoding rectangles as long values) is sufficient.
I’ve already posted some demos at the start of the year but these were much too simplistic to attract any attention so I’m starting to plan a proper launch now with some more capabilities.
Looking at about 3 weeks for basic GUI support becoming stable unless I face any major hurdles (pretty unlikely in an emulator environment), an additional 1 month or so to get some more interesting demo apps working (maybe some games, AI tools etc.), then a further 3 months on refining & advancing the current stack before it starts becoming more useful as a near-general-purpose OS.
So in other words, 4 to 6 months until I can start moving onto my new platform as my main development environment and then updates should start getting a bit more frequent.
This will probably include some very basic web functionality and other things people would expect from a general purpose OS but won’t be competitive with Linux etc. for at least a year or so (when emulators/virtualisation will be more convenient to run “real” apps). The system already has some container type functionality internally but this isn’t fully exposed yet, and other things like drivers and networking will still need more improvement after they start to stabilise, so most advanced “enterprise” & hardware features will be deferred until after an initial commercially-supportable release.
Stay tuned!
I don’t know if I can do anything to improve this situation, but if a professional hacker can’t get access to doctors and job networks here I can only imagine how difficult it must be for more vulnerable members of the community.
Something needs to change around here.
I probably won’t be able to focus on embedded development without setting up a more serious office, my server rack setup is a bit of a mess right now so I’m working from a laptop.
I’d like to do some book publishing in the future though once I’m done setting up my computer gear a bit better, especially making historical documents more accessible, so the business name was partly chosen with that option in mind and my software can be retargeted towards that as well.
So it will probably be a few weeks at least until I have better demos (GUI etc.) as I have some other things to worry about, but I have some excellent plans that will hopefully start coming to fruition this year.
That’s what it seems like, they are just on autopilot trying to start wars that don’t benefit their own populations.
Australia’s government does not even have the resources to defend itself from underfed bogans.
Who lit the fires that burnt Cobargo, who bought up all the local resorts after the locals were made broke, and were these two events connected or just a startling coincidence? Can ASIO answer these questions or shall I?
“Back in my day” you had to write a whole kernel yourself to have your own operating system!
Having had a look at a few modern “operating systems” including checking out the manual of Origin Quantum’s new OS for quantum computing, it looks like the accepted norm is now to just develop an operating system as a high level app running on Linux.
Origin Quantum’s new OS (Origin Pilot, these terms presumably trademarks of Origin Quantum) appears to run as a web app on top of Linux, serving requests to run algorithms on quantum hardware over plain HTTP. I assume this will be somewhat the norm on quantum platforms.
I certainly won’t be discontinuing my own kernel work any time soon but I probably will be making some components portable so my systems can easily integrate with these kinds of solutions. As for quantum computing I do hope to implement a kernel-level API but I will of course wait until there’s a bit more research and public feedback about current/next generation quantum systems so that typical use cases can be planned for.
Iran is not an enemy of the common person and probably had no involvement in recent attacks on Australia.
Iran’s government have gone out of their way previously to alert Australian authorities of the risk from the Lindt cafe gunman and were ignored in that instance, I would say probably by ASIO and their foreign controllers.
ASIO being run by a foreigner and his foreign mates is the real security risk here, I can’t trust this “Australian” government and anyone who does is an idiot.
What the fuck are you losers doing hiding behind a broke as fuck “intelligence” agency that can’t even afford to pay staff competitive rates? Crawling up Israel’s arse looking for shekels?
I might as well run my own intelligence agency if any underqualified broke foreigner can do it.
I offered to help with these kinds of negotiations for the Australian Army when I was young and fit but the obese fuckers who were in charge of DFRC treated me as an enemy race, deeming me permanently unfit for service the moment they found out I’m an Arab.
Oh well, now I am enjoying watching your soldiers and their allies get cooked by Iran. And yes I’m pretty sure there were some Australians in those buildings.
PS: Australian soldiers are too fat to run and they suck at IQ tests. Their army seems to have intentionally hired idiots over capable people.