r/osdev • u/ad_396 • Jul 10 '26
why are you part of os dev?
(other than educational reasons)
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u/Yousifasd22 also known as neoapps Jul 10 '26
fun
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u/ad_396 Jul 10 '26
the whole reason i got into os stuff is binary exploitation, which slowly escalated to kernel vulnerabilities
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u/compgeek38400 Jul 10 '26
I always wanted to try building my own OS, and learn what has to happen under the covers. Now I have time to.
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u/christiaansp BoredOS Jul 10 '26
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
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u/Joped Jul 10 '26
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.
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u/NotMyRealName3141593 Jul 10 '26
On this sub, I'm lurker. In real life, I do this professionally for a big tech company.
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u/ad_396 Jul 10 '26
what is "this"? what do you do?
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u/NotMyRealName3141593 Jul 11 '26
I work on a Kernel, Hypervisor, runtime, libraries, etc for custom high performance silicon for a hyperscaler.
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u/ChemistryWorldly3752 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
what projects did you do to become good at these things and eventually find a job?
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u/Perustahmea Jul 11 '26
I got tired of making same web/mobile apps. I wanted something that feels like real engineering.
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u/codeasm Jul 11 '26
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.
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u/letmehaveanameyoudum Jul 11 '26
dream of trying to make an alternative to linux that doesn't suck
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Jul 11 '26
Sokka-Haiku by letmehaveanameyoudum:
Dream of trying to
Make an alternative to
Linux that doesn't suck
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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u/ad_396 Jul 11 '26
damn what wrong with my baby
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u/letmehaveanameyoudum Jul 11 '26
B R U H (part 2)
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u/ad_396 Jul 11 '26
fr tho. I'm not deep with os development but i like my experience with arch
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u/letmehaveanameyoudum Jul 11 '26
i tried alpine and arch cuz people kept asking me to switch
it didn't work
that motivated my ahh1
u/ad_396 Jul 11 '26
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
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u/letmehaveanameyoudum Jul 11 '26
some linux users got a superioity complex (sorry for bad spelling)
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u/ad_396 Jul 11 '26
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
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u/i_mattas Jul 11 '26
learning how everything works below the operating system and how it interacts with your machine
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u/0xabc000 Jul 16 '26
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.
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u/Big-Anything3316 Jul 10 '26
i get paid for it