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If Torvalds can do it... (medium.com)
46 points by xyanb 2236 days ago
5 comments
mathgladiator 2235 days ago
Neat. Good job, that was not easy for sure.

Welcome to the Builder Club of people building for the sake of building. It is great.

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Raed667 2235 days ago
kudos! That "naivité" reminds me of when i stepped out of class after learning how to write an "OS" for the ATmega328 and checking out LFS (Linux From Scratch).

I thought I was a kernel developer for sure!

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jonnypotty 2235 days ago
Love your attitude dude. You're gonna have a deeper understanding of how computers work than 99% of people on hn by the time you're done, if you don't already!
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devnullbyte 2235 days ago
Interesting that he decided to take the approach of not copying any code, that must have been a helluva challenge with the early boot phase assembly.
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TomMarius 2235 days ago
There is basically no assembly wit EFI, isn't there?
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kinkrtyavimoodh 2235 days ago
... it gives me little to no signal whether I can do it, because Linus is a legend while I have in 35 years not shown any signs of being one.
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avmich 2235 days ago
When Linus was working on Minix transforming it into something different, he was not nearly as good with programming as he became later. He was pretty good, but not so good by a long shot.

You can definitely try.

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renox 2235 days ago
While Linus is a really good programmer, Linux is what it is only because he merged the contributions of many other good programmers.. Why did these programmers contributed to Linux? Because Linus came at the right time, with the right motivation. Even if you're a better programmer, the question is why would the other programmers contribute to your OS instead of Linux, *BSD, SeL4/Genode, Haiku?
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