Friday, August 23, 2013

Personal Music Library

Since my music library and knowledge kindda sucks, I've decided to give some of the classics a try at the rate of one new song everyday. Feel free to post suggestions in comments.

23/07/2013
Pull Me Under - Dream Theater (cover) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h2h4zIhwuM

24/07/2013
Soothsayer - Buckethead - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWgOC4xCVPI

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

A 10,000 line OS!!

Hey peepulz!

I recently came across a 10,000 line OS, written for educational purposes. It's called xv6, and it's pretty basic - just a shell with very limited ability to create files, but it's a fully self-contained OS that boots on it's own. It's used by MIT folks (and many other universities) for their advanced Operating Systems course (6.828, video lectures here).

It also comes with a free textbook that details its internals. You need to have qemu installed for running xv6 in a VM.

Get source code here:
git clone git://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xv6/xv6.git 
Instructions on booting
http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs422/2013/lec/l2-hw
Manual:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6/book-rev7.pdf
More info:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html