Abdel Benamrouche announced that he has updated the original 0.01 Linux kernel to compile with GCC-4.x, allowing it to run on emulators such as QEMU and Bochs. After applying his series of small patches, Abdel explains that the 0.01 kernel can be built on a system running the 2.6 Linux kernel. He added that he’s successfully ported bash-3.2, portions of coreutils-6.9, dietlibc-0.31 (instead of glibc), bin86-0.16.17, make-3.81, ncurses-2.0.7, and vim-7.1 all to run on his modified 0.01 kernel.
pointless, but cool and i’m sure it was fun to do.
I smell forkage!
I agree, porting Vim is pointless when we have Emacs.
Vim > Emacs
Vim < Emacs
There, fixed it for ya.
No you introducted a new bug
Not all people have 9^8402740 years to spend porting an OS to another OS. (???)
This is the year of linux 0.01 on the desktop! hehe
I’d say this qualifies as “geeky”. Gonna try it out on qemu now
Works quite nice. And hardcore linuxer will say they don’t miss any features in linux 0.01 lol.
Cheers.
Pictures:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Retro_booting_Linux_kernel_0_01_on_moder…
Edited 2008-01-07 20:34
but I’d be more interested in someone porting Linux to be 100% C99 compliant. Perhaps this could be a first step.
How about a C99 compiler existing first? Currently, I don’t think there *are* any 100% C99 compliant compilers. Certainly none of the mainstream ones are (MSVC is still C89. GCC has partial support, and so on)
Actually, Sun Studio is 100% C99 compliant. It’s also “free” (as in beer). It is available for GNU/Linux and Solaris platforms:
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/documentation/ss12/mr/READMEs/c…
Edited 2008-01-08 01:19 UTC
Actually, no. There are still a number of changes to the system headers that have to be made in order for their compiler to be C99 compliant. From their manuals:
“Note – Though the compiler defaults to supporting the features of C99 listed below, standard headers provided by Solaris software in /usr/include do not yet conform with the 1999 ISO/IEC C standard. If error messages are encountered, try using -xc99=%none to obtain the 1990 ISO/IEC C standard behavior for these headers.”
This is more or less the same situation that GCC is in. The C99 syntax changes are complete, more or less, but the headers and library functions are still not ready.
MS, of course, isn’t even trying to move past C89.
If you read the link again, you will note that it has *full compliance* with the standard.
However, the catch is that system headers supplied with Solaris are not
So, actually, yes.
The other difference is that gcc is NOT in the same situation. If you look at the gcc c99 status page, you will note that some c99 features are still broken or missing whereas Sun claims *full* compliance with c99.
I think you could have a 100% compliant C99 Linux before you have a a 100% compliant C99 compiler because Linux does not use every possible aspect of C99. As long as it used a supported subset everything would be fine… and the GNU extensions would be gone.
Of the guy who turned his Gameboy Advance into a web server. Some people have entirely too much free time.
vim < emacs migth add up since less is more
I bet both.
Unix philosophy is having smaller well defined programs doing one thing well, interact. VI/Vim is small and have a beatiful and elegant editing model.
Emacs is large and monolithic. An operating system with an editor attached to it. It fits more into the paradigm of Microsoft; that of large monolithic programs that can do everything.
Hence, VI/Vim > emacs. ;o)
Agreed, and another thing: some of us don’t have a choice in the matter. I work with hundreds (seriously!) of Sun boxes on a daily basis, and vi is what we have. Not even Vim (bummer), and definitely no Emacs.
For me, and lots of others, you learn to use the editor you have access to. I can always apply my mad Vim skillz to vi (well, some of them) and vice-versa. Emacs doesn’t even fit into the equation.
Hurray! I thought this clasic flamewar was nearly extinct these days. These Gnome vs. KDE, Ubuntu vs. Gentoo, GPL vs. BSD flamewars just aren’t the same… since everyone knows that Gnome, Gentoo and GPL are the best 😉
Windows Vista on a P III 200MHz Machine – $250
HPUX on a Superdome – $20000
Linux 0.01 on a 2GHz PC – priceless!
all you should learn to use ed and stop this terrible war . sam is the only other option.
The only people who seem to advocate that are BSDers. Granted, that’s fine if you prefer it (or really hate command mode), but most other people seem to prefer Vim (or XEmacs or whatever).
I also like TDE, XVI, VILE, JED, FTE, FED, MINED, and others, though. (Heh, lots of options.) 🙂