cl91

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by cl91 2y ago
> the next-best single-user, single-process, non-bloated OS is UEFI.
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by cl91 2y ago
GitHub.com/cl91/NeptuneOS Source: I wrote this.
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by cl91 2y ago
> I've known C for almost 20 years The author is only 19 years old. I feel really dumb now.
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by cl91 3y ago
> not return the favor by releasing their source That's not quite true and your bias is showing. The company behind Loongarch is reasonably friendly to FOSS and most of their LA64 changes (to Linux, llvm, binutils, gcc, etc) are ups
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by cl91 3y ago
The funny thing is, the boot processes on Windows and Linux are remarkably similar, and have always been. On Windows, firmware loads bootloader, bootloader loads ntoskrnl (NT kernel), ntoskrnl starts first user process smss.exe, smss starts
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by cl91 4y ago
T420 can be modded easily to have 1080p full hd IPS screen, 4C8T ivy bridge CPU and 16GB ram. The only thing it's missing is usb3 which can be solved with a cardbus extension card. W520's full hd screen is not IPS (and can't
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by cl91 4y ago
> Toy model of AdS wormhole It's even less than that. The duality between SYK_4 (SYK with four-fermion interactions) and AdS_2 (2D AdS spacetime) is only (conjectured to be) true at infinite N (where N is the number of fermions) and
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by cl91 5y ago
Ok I misremembered. It was actually a pre-release of what would become Windows XP.
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by cl91 5y ago
There is no reverse engineering because how Windows implements things internally is totally irrelevant. We only implement the public interfaces exposed by the NT Executive. The device drivers and user applications are all taken from ReactOS
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by cl91 5y ago
Yeah I named the project after the codename for Windows 2000, arguably the best OS that Microsoft has ever created :)
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by cl91 5y ago
The keyboard driver stack is working (we also have a PC speaker driver that makes an annoying beep). It's actually not as trivial as it seems, because passing IRPs across process boundary while maintaining the consistency of states is
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by cl91 5y ago
Hi, I'm the author of this project (I didn't post this on HN someone else did). We have implemented NT processes. All device drivers and user executable are NT processes (created by NtCreateProcess or RtlCreateUserProcess). What w