Why another Operating System ?
Clicker should be flexible enough to fully support the wide range of PC users
and utilities. We want it to be a GENERAL operating system, which means that
it would be possible to use the SAME system for games, secure networking or
user-friendly computing.
Up to now, there are MANY system, which each have their weakest point and
their advantage. For example, if you are a beginner, you'll prefer WINxx's
GUI and bookshops! If you're an experimented user, you'll beter feel in a
Unix-like world. If you're a gamer, you'll buy a PSX, and so on.
I could find MANY other examples.
That's not possible !? You're kidding !
We would like Clicker to allow BOTH of these features, by the way of SESSIONS,
which should allow users to "tell" the system what he's going to do.
I.e. if you're fed up with your textprocessor and want to play a little, you
will turn clicker in the *FAST* mode, which will make it a "mono-application"
system, but dramatically faster.
When your game is over, you can then switch back to *MAIN* mode and then go on
with your 3D-modeler, or your sound-tracker.
These transitions should be as "fast" as the starting/ending of the X session
under Linux or the commutation WIN->DOS.
We also hope that the super-user should be able to define some new operating
modes with special features, and allow some user to go/don't go to specific
modes.
Who are you ?
For now, the Clicker team is not very huge:
PYPE
That's me. I'm the current project leader and the writer of the Kernel.
Let's say it's quite a huge task for a poor 20-year-old student and
i'll be happy to share it asap ;-)
MIND
Mind is not much more active in the project (well, i don't see him very
often since he went to another school :-( I event can't remember his
e-mail address (too bad)
KRIS
Kris is mainly active on the DISK system and COMPRESSOR techniques.
He also "supervise" my design-work so that i do not take too bad choices.
you if you'd like to give your opinion on some subjects ;-)
Where Can I Get It ?
Heeey! keep c00l... We're not that kind of company that's able to make an OS
in a few years! The idea of making a multi-tasking system appears only in '97!
Then we took time to think about HOW we would multitask, how does OTHER system
do and WHY that's not always a great idea.
Most parts of the system are still in the conceptualisation stage of the
"design pipe-line" (;-). So don't expect a ready-to-use system before a while.
A "memory management scheme" has already be written (in TASM with PMODE management),
but we have to port it to NASM/GCC to make the system easyer to understand and
to write (i began to got lost in my own kernel :-(
Can I Contribute ?
Well, that would be *great*, moreover if you're experimented with Operating
System, because we're quite few to code it, for the moment.
The better way you can help us right now is to tell us what YOU'd like
the Clicker to be able to do
Leave your address in an e-mail if the project enjoys you. I'll recontact you
as soon as we get a "running kernel" able to load modules (because if many
people begin to write code for the kernel, it'll be quite a mess !!)
Where can I Reach you ??
Nah ? Seriously ? I mean, that was my end-of-studies work 20 years ago. I've kept working on it for 5 extra years on sourceforge and been moderator on the Megatokyo OS-dev forum. It's all over, now.
