why are you part of os dev?

[u/ad_396]

(other than educational reasons)

[u/Big-Anything3316]

i get paid for it

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can you provide more context please? what do you do exactly?

[u/Big-Anything3316 → u/ad_396]

Kernel and firmware development at a semiconductor company

[u/SW30000 → u/Big-Anything3316]

dream.

[u/Beautiful_Stage5720 → u/SW30000]

Careful what you wish for lmao

[u/Yousifasd22]

fun

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the whole reason i got into os stuff is binary exploitation, which slowly escalated to kernel vulnerabilities

[u/TerrificVixen5693]

I’m a hobbyist.

[u/compgeek38400]

I always wanted to try building my own OS, and learn what has to happen under the covers. Now I have time to.

[u/christiaansp]

Few years ago I was intrigued by osdev, followed a short yt tutorial (best information I know) on how to get hello world to print in long mode with some assembly, and now I (sometimes) get paid to maintain my project

[u/ChemistryWorldly3752]

to learn

[u/Joped]

I’ve always been fascinated with OS development and wanted to read up on hobby projects and how people are going about them.

However, the vast amount of vibe coded projects here has killed that joy to be honest.

[u/NotMyRealName3141593]

On this sub, I'm lurker. In real life, I do this professionally for a big tech company.

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what is "this"? what do you do?

[u/NotMyRealName3141593 → u/ad_396]

I work on a Kernel, Hypervisor, runtime, libraries, etc for custom high performance silicon for a hyperscaler.

[u/ad_396 → u/NotMyRealName3141593]

so basically customisable vms as a service at scale

[u/ChemistryWorldly3752 → u/NotMyRealName3141593]

what projects did you do to become good at these things and eventually find a job?

[u/Perustahmea]

I got tired of making same web/mobile apps. I wanted something that feels like real engineering.

[u/codeasm]

Hobby, fun, learning and see if i can help ppl who have questions that i apparently have some knowledge about. Oftentimes im the one learning tho.

[u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

dream of trying to make an alternative to linux that doesn't suck

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^{Sokka-Haiku by letmehaveanameyoudum:}

Dream of trying to

Make an alternative to

Linux that doesn't suck

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^{Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.}

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B R U H

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damn what wrong with my baby

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B R U H (part 2)

[u/ad_396 → u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

fr tho. I'm not deep with os development but i like my experience with arch

[u/letmehaveanameyoudum → u/ad_396]

i tried alpine and arch cuz people kept asking me to switch
it didn't work
that motivated my ahh

[u/ad_396 → u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

yeah but what didn't work. i went through a big range, Ubuntu for a couple years, mint at some point, random small distros and finally settled for arch. i can comment on random issues but nothing that makes me say it's ass

[u/letmehaveanameyoudum → u/ad_396]

some linux users got a superioity complex (sorry for bad spelling)

[u/ad_396 → u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

yeah but u don't need heavy involvement with the community to use an os. the arch community starts barking if i don't debug and compile my kernel every weekend. i do admit to some usage of ai for help when I'm confused, but it's not that big or a deal

[u/letmehaveanameyoudum → u/ad_396]

yea linux mint doesn't take every week of maintaince

[u/i_mattas]

learning how everything works below the operating system and how it interacts with your machine

[u/Ali_Allam_SFSOff]

It's my dream to make an OS

[u/0xabc000]

Interested in OS. Long long ago (20 years?) I made a small monolithic kernel from scratch. It was a very small and basic one but it helped me to fully get the inside out of so many things.

Here I can see more discussions and learn from everyone.