[mikewarot]

>What is it with this recent trend of people posting their projects before they've done any work whatsoever on them?

Because the opposite is a waste of time. If you build code, and it gets totally ignored, what was the point? Do you think the Time Cube^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^, ok... maybe he would have anyway... but if nobody is going to reward the effort, why waste it?

Besides... it's always been done this way

  Hello everybody out there using minix -
  I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

  I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

  Linus ([e-mail])

  PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
  It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

[toast0]

That sounds like he did a lot of work before he posted it. It wasn't complete, but it had work done.

Day 1 of I'm going to work on X is not really interesting, unless it's part of a series where we know there's a bunch of days.