Good people,
I think your comments are discouraging and it is the last thing we need in our small dev community. The dude has DONE something. Granted, it's not a new OS. But it is at least something that some people think is cool enough that they've given Raindolf an award for.
If you can DO better, DO it BEFORE you criticize. I think we do too little and criticize too much.
Someone build something cooler than AnanseOS (like Ubuntu is arguably cooler than Debian for lovers of desktop enhancements or Centos is again arguably cooler than RedHat)
That off my chest, what i would have expected is we asked the dude for his modifications, suggested improvements or submitted patches. If he throws those changes away without taking a look at your code or giving his thoughts about why he can't accept your changes, then you have earned the right to criticize.
There's also the argument of not reinventing the wheel, which i believe is something we are pretty familiar with. If you haven't used an idea or two from stackoverflow or similar website for your project, hands up!
Let's keep the vim up and try to only criticize constructively...
my2pesewas
Jojoo
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The fact is that linux is more portable than minix. What? I hear you say. It's true - but not in the sense that ast means: I made linux as conformant to standards as I knew how (without having any POSIX standard in front of me). Porting things to linux is generally /much/ easier than porting them to minix.
MINIX was designed before POSIX, and is now being (slowly) POSIXized as everyone who follows this newsgroup knows. Everyone agrees that user-level standards are a good idea. As an aside, I congratulate you for being able to write a POSIX-conformant system without having the POSIX standard in front of you. I find it difficult enough after studying the standard at great length.
My point is that writing a new operating system that is
closely tied to any
particular piece of hardware, especially a weird one like the
Intel line,
is basically wrong. An OS itself should be easily portable to
new hardware
platforms. When OS/360 was written in assembler for the IBM
360
25 years ago, they probably could be excused. When MS-DOS was
written
specifically for the 8088 ten years ago, this was less than
brilliant, as
IBM and Microsoft now only too painfully realize.
Writing a new OS only for the 386 in 1991 gets you your second 'F' for this term. But if you do real well on the final exam, you can still pass the course.
Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum (a...@cs.vu.nl) "
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We did a base-n crypto analysis on category6 servers some years ago using kernel ciphering processes. The same applied to a work I did at N.A.S.A some years ago. That said, I have a strong background in electrical engineering and protocol analysis. I eat engineering basically, I have managed to build a lot of processors to take advantage of some of this so called lame designs. It is kind of cool coding a partially-monolithic kernel in a somewhat water-crimson VA 234 trajectory. How does a semaphoric design in kernel rendering for most part impact satellite based processors and their design flaws? I am working on a significant calculand for encrypting the kernel image of most linux kernels. Anyways, I met with Torvalds some years ago and consider him to be a fairly intelligent guy; His design is ok. When designing images, we normally compile some base code in assembly and try to port it through various simplex running processes. I like kernel design a lot . Archzillon, have you built core DX-BX make-overs in operating systems before? I mean it is pretty lame and I expect every operating systems student to know this kind of stuff. You come of as having some knowledge of kernel design..An in-depth knowledge of kernel design is good. I am currently building a kernel and I want to include a multi-process , scalable and more robust inter-cognitive design to the whole core. Also I am writing the TCP/IP stack from scratch and including the new hyper-modulated multi-core protocol stack. That is to enable quick routing of packets using ipv4 and ipv6.
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My only advise to all ESP Rain. Do what you have to do well, not what others want you to do. Peace and keep coding ...
Don't give a RAT ass to what people think about you man. They hating on you, it's part of human growth process so appreciate it, and keep moving. If nobody is hating on you, then you are doing something wrong. DO what is right for you. We got your back.
It been interesting
erm...i beg oo!! small question . so where were all the criticisms and encouragements and comments and so on being kept??
erm...i beg oo!! small question . so where were all the criticisms and encouragements and comments and so on being kept??
erm...i beg oo!! small question . so where were all the criticisms and encouragements and comments and so on being kept??I guess mawuli's article must have been a real gate unlocker or catalyst... hehehehehe ;)
/*Clearing my throat*/I've been following this thread for while. I'll like to add my voice.
I quote from your post "Before i started this project I sent a mail in April introducing my self to this group and said i was looking for a team to join me in my upcoming projects. A couple of guys responded but no developer contacted me."I think you added me to your team. (http://test.oasiswebsoft.com/?q=oasis/ (You gave me this address to log into your so-called secure platform which conversations cannot be stolen by Microsoft nor Google. I still have the password (I wonder if you've not changed it of which I can pull out when asked.)) However without my knowledge, I was booted out of the team. In some few months later with no reason.As a team member (by then) I designed the Opey Magazine (a site you made noise about, but doesn't exist today, only to be redirected to some 40-something something) (I lost the source file of that design in a hard disk crash but this video on my channel proofs me right: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eBuzvci3kQ ) design of which you said you'll meet me in Accra by then at KATI-AICE to offer me some toffees to clear my throat, but you totally failed to show up and since then you never even replied to my emails.So if you really wanted team members, trust me, you had many even including 3D artists like me. I made some designs for you for your so-called OS but never even got confirmation as to whether it was used or not (i guess it was too crappy for you liking)In the last 6 months i'm sure you've put up 2 different websites at Oasiswebsoft.com. The most recent one (not the current one) had 4 team members, listed as Oasis Websoft team members. However you current website features none of them anymore.The above was just a touch on your request for team members. The truth of the matter is, @folks Raindolf had real members whom he could work with, but for reasons I don't fully know, he's alone still. (maybe he doesn't trust anyone, i guess)
Back to general:For me, I don't have problems with what Raindolf is currently working on - building customized Open SUSE OS. My problem has to do with his way of branding himself online. One thing I always tell my colleagues (I'm coordinator for Planning Wikimedia Ghana) is that, the outside world are always looking at as, and willing to open up opportunities with us. However, what we say or how we brand ourselves will surely push them away. A Swiss friend of mind told me one thing about Africans that they (including whites) hate is when someone overstate something. E.g. "We had a nice meeting today with a friend in Accra." - Okay | Overstating - "We had a tremendous and outstanding conference with a seasoned professional from East Legon, Accra, today. (just trying to paint a picture of what overstating can mean.Raindolf is everywhere of late with his OS. For me, I knew from day one, that Raindolf is cloning. At least, Windows XP had at least 25M lines of C++ hardcore, machine level coding of which Linux might be longer of which Raindolf cannot write within a period of 1 or 2 years solo. So his moving around wasn't something special to me (and I'm sure to many). I was quite on his activity most often simply because I wanted to see how far he goes with cloning Open SUSE.The little advice I'll give Raindolf is to keep things low. The principle, keep things low. When you keep things low, you'll get people to move on with you from the low level into bigger areas. However, when you start high, it doesn't serve well sometimes (in fact, most times)And my last touch is on the Wikipedia (r) Seach Engine you have, kindly do something about it. Wikipedia is a registered Trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation that runs 10 project sites (+ more (wikimania etc)). In order to avoid confusing your site visitors as your site is endorsed by them, I on behalf of my Wikimedia Ghana team offered you two suggestions ( I won't say that here). Please work on that for us. Kindly update us on how far that goes.In all, I say you've got good talent and can further that into greater heights. However, I repeat, kindly keep things low!Thank you everyone.rex
Okay, "Rexford is a genius at what he does and I think he can do freelance for us"
Freelance? Did he bring me on the team as a freelancer or as a team member ? Do freelancers of oasis get that high level privilege on their server?And one more thing! Please, I'm not spoiling his name. He's a good friend of mine ( he even introduced me to this gtug ). Besides did I say anything that isn't right? If all I said is right, any "name-spoiling" in there?Why would I blast Raindolf? Who pays me for blasting him? Besides, I'm just bringing these points out so that onlookers can also learn something from it. Even if noone learns nothing from this thread, I've learnt a lot.I wont say we're using Raindolf as an 'escaped goat', but his instance is bringing so many issues to board. He recently met me at coconut groove hotel and said he's got a project for me and he'll send it in. However, its not in!I'm looking if he will send them in since he's not fulfilled his simple, down-to-earth initial non-legally binding agreements with me (some petty chats) and I'll take it from the PM too.In addition, I'm not disclosing everything here. The rest will follow when he contacts me via email.Raindolf s3 ayeyi, 3no nti na m'eyi no ay3.by the way I agree to your last statement: This is a clear indication of why most African start up fail, we African would always be Africans and can never change....And I'm glad you're still an african :p
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...its amazing how far we are able to go if we just let ourselves to go...
after all the binaries, there is a human that decides "What next?" so computers aren't so smart, we are!
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scicomtech.blogspot.com
...its amazing how far we are able to go if we just let ourselves to go...
after all the binaries, there is a human that decides "What next?" so computers aren't so smart, we are!
Eeeeish people slow down small ,I tried to refuse to to talk and am still trying ,I suggest @maximus add a best OS / clone or what ever competition to topapps and let's see what happens , in the end I can't resist the temptation to say a monkey in suite should not be mistaken for a human being ,am still wondering where I heard that from ,in the mean time please let's seize fire enough has been said else we may as well set up a debate day or get a commission of enquiry to do what they do best .peace.
Walter
@Emmanuel please I think it ll help everyone here
Meant to say please do lol
Masa let not reinvent the wheel
Hey wat u mean is let look forward to help him
I would rather see a sermon than hear one any day. I'd rather have you walk with me,
wow, smh. Incredible comments here.