Programmers required for Open Source Project

**chrisa128** · Aug 18th, 2003, 05:52 PM

Hi,

Im lookign for developers or just people that want to help in the testing of CAOS and Open Soure operating System. No experience required and it's unpaid but its a challenge providing the framework for others to develop software around a system that you designed.

I especially need people that have Encryption/cryptography experience to work on the security side... No experience in hardware programming is required...

Please note as it's Open Source there is no money involved...

Web Site
http://caos.stealthonline.com

For up to date news also see our forums
http://caos.stealthonline.com/forums

**chrisa128** · Aug 29th, 2003, 06:24 PM

Anyone???? Comon, surely some people are looking for a challenge?????

**Venom555** · Aug 30th, 2003, 02:46 PM

Looking through the source, I noticed that there wasn't any ASM in your OS at all. Is it truly 100% C?

**chrisa128** · Aug 30th, 2003, 05:13 PM

The is some inline ASM in the C code... Also there are a couple of .S files which are ASM...

We are trying to keep the ASM to a minium, but we need both kinds of programmers because theres stuff that cannot be done through C...

However, I don't see any need for any other programmers using anything other than C.

**Venom555** · Aug 30th, 2003, 05:37 PM

Is there going to be a bootsector/bootstrap for this OS or is it going to remain a floppy disk OS?

**chrisa128** · Aug 30th, 2003, 06:20 PM

At the moment, it remains on a floppy, but this is mainly due to the fact that I have not the file system fully implemented within the kernel...
Once this is done it should work on Hard-disk, this is essential as a floppy disk doesn't have much space for other utilities...

**chrisa128** · Sep 7th, 2003, 03:59 PM

Anyone... Comon, someones gotta be interested...

At the moment these are the things we need...
1. People to port the Standard Library
2. People to work on the kernel
3. More People to work on the kernel
4. People to tell us what they need to write software

http://caos.stealthonline.com (we've just finished updating the Website... Thats worth a look

**Venom555** · Sep 7th, 2003, 04:21 PM

I was planning to make my own OS sometime, but the bootsector took all my dreams and shattered them, then jumped up and down on the shattered pieces, until they looked like powdered toast. I can program in ANSI C, but I only the fundamentals of it.

4. People to tell us what they need to write software

What kind of software did you have in mind?

**chrisa128** · Sep 7th, 2003, 04:43 PM

The fundimentals in C are good enough, you'll have sample source to look at and im trying to keep my source simple

And if you need help I can help you...

As for the bootsector thats finished, I had some help with that because the ones i've written have been pretty ugly looking...

As for software, the only software it won't support will be games... Anything else will go... We just need to know the type of software you'd use on it...

Venom555: Join the CAOS forums, and post your ideas there... Sure we could with your help, no-one can really write an OS by themselves, it's always easier doing it as a team....

**chrisa128** · Nov 3rd, 2003, 05:58 PM

Comon... Anyone? You don't even need to be able to code... we need people that can document... support... and even more.. we need BETA Testers...

If you want to BETA Test then register at the forums ( http://forums.caos.ws ) or the BETA Members area (http://caos.ws)...

**techgnome** · Nov 3rd, 2003, 06:12 PM

I have an old PC that I might be willing to donate to the efforts as a test machine.

PM with the min requrements and we'll see if it'll run.

TG

**chrisa128** · Nov 6th, 2003, 04:21 PM

Anyone else????? Our site has moved to http://caos.ws with the forums being at http://forums.caos.ws

Anyone? Comon people, you know you wanna...

**Kasracer** · Nov 19th, 2003, 07:16 PM

I'd be willing to help, though I'm a C++ person. I could probably adopt to C if need be, but I'd rather stick to C++ (so I could always write software for it).

However, I am interested in the process of making an OS and then booting it off of a floppy. I can't find a single tutorial about anything on OS creation except some really old C stuff and I prefer C++

**chrisa128** · Nov 21st, 2003, 06:59 AM

Cool, C++ is based of C so you've got the fundimetals

I'll deal with it Monday

**nci** · Nov 21st, 2003, 09:17 AM

Well, I was considering writing my own
OS at one point. But the confusion of ASM
and C thwarted that idea. I can learn ASM
or C if I get chunks of small code to digest.

Right now I am a visual basic guy.
I am willing to help.

**chrisa128** · Nov 23rd, 2003, 05:22 PM

Cool,

If you sign up for the forums then we will make good use of you

**vbNeo** · Nov 30th, 2003, 02:06 PM

Could be cool helping out - I'm a VB guy, but i'm currently learning C and planning on doing 80x86 ASM afterwards

**CornedBee** · Nov 30th, 2003, 03:39 PM

Native support for wxWindows or GTK+ would be very cool.

Though supporting an X server will get you more.

**chrisa128** · Dec 1st, 2003, 05:38 AM

vbNeo - Cool, yea sign up to the forums, I learnt C and Assembly entirely through working on CAOS. Thats why im useless at programming Windows stuff in C or Assembly

We are planning to support a native implementation of an X Environment

**vbNeo** · Dec 1st, 2003, 10:54 AM

What forum should I sign up in? Doesn't seem to be a recruting one...

**chrisa128** · Dec 2nd, 2003, 07:42 AM

http://forums.caos.ws

Post in the Kernel Development forums a brief bio. Chris Hellriegel will probably contact you etc as im extremely busy with the coding.

**vbNeo** · Dec 2nd, 2003, 08:02 AM

Done =) - http://forums.caos.ws/viewtopic.php?t=106

**chrisa128** · Dec 3rd, 2003, 09:45 AM

Cool, it'll probably be Friday though before we get the chance to have a chat.

Chris Hellriegel will probably have a chat to you before then though

Heh, anyone else? Even if you can't code you can input ideas

**nkad** · Dec 7th, 2003, 05:11 AM

A few million lines of code later

**NoteMe** · Mar 9th, 2004, 09:31 AM

Is this thread dead??? I just found the link in through the other guys thread...but I can't get into any of the links to the CAOS site...

**manavo11** · Mar 9th, 2004, 05:31 PM

Originally posted by NoteMe
Is this thread dead??? I just found the link in through the other guys thread...but I can't get into any of the links to the CAOS site...

Good job

3 month old thread

**chrisa128** · Mar 10th, 2004, 10:29 AM

Nope, its still open..... we're still looking for developers

at the moment the Site is down as we're moving a server but that should be fixed shortly....

So anyone else interested?

**maxd gaming** · Jun 5th, 2004, 04:13 PM

Would you manage to make VB software work on this OS? If so, I would really enjoy writing software for that OS? Such as email clients, messengers, Text Editors, Calulators, WebBrowsers... all the essentials.

**vbNeo** · Jun 8th, 2004, 07:42 AM

Originally posted by maxd gaming
Would you manage to make VB software work on this OS? If so, I would really enjoy writing software for that OS? Such as email clients, messengers, Text Editors, Calulators, WebBrowsers... all the essentials.

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