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[David . Decotigny]

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David Decotigny <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: SOS
System name: sos
Type: non-GNU

Description:
This   is   SOS,   a   Simple   Operating   System   for   i386-family
processors. This is  as simple as possible to show a  way to program a
basic Operating System on real  common hardware (PC).  The code should
be easily readable and understandable thanks to frequent comments, and
references to external documentation.  We chose to implement the basic
features  of an OS,  thus making  design decisions  targetting towards
simplicity  of  understanding,  covering  most  of  the  OS  classical
concepts,  but  not  aiming  at  proposing  yet  another  full-fledged
competitive OS  (Linux is  quite good at  it). However, for  those who
would  like to  propose some  enhancements, we  are open  to  any code
suggestions (patches only,  please).  And yes, there might  be bugs in
the code, so please send us any bug report, and/or patches !

The OS comes as  a set of articles (in french) to  be published in the
journal  "Linux Magazine  France". Each  month, the  part of  the code
related to the current article's theme is released (see VERSION file),
and the resulting OS can  be successfully compiled and run, by booting
it from a floppy on a real  machine (tested AMD k7, Cyrix and Intel P4
pentiums), or through an x86  emulator (bochs or qemu).  The resulting
OS is available as a multiboot compliant ELF kernel (sos.elf) and as a
floppy image (fd.img).  It provides  a very very very basic demo whose
aim is to  understand how everything works, not  to animate sprites on
the screen with 5:1 dolby sound.


Other Software Required:
binutils, gcc, make, qemu or bochs

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