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11:37 PM

Things are heating up on the KDE camp. It seems that they are realizing that the GNOME people are good at marketing themselves to the masses, which make the competition between the two even stronger. This is really exciting, we'll see who is going to win.

10:31 PM

AtheOS seems to be very quiet on the development front. I think nobody is developing except the creator himself. It's really sad to be noting this because I find it very promising. Plus there are already people willing to commit their free time to further its development. I'm really hoping that a development environment should be decided ASAP.

There is one poster that I think is a good hacker, he says he knows a lot of FreeBSD stuff. He also stated he is an active developer at FreeDows which he said is going nowhere.

8:25 PM

Ok, I think I got a simple hello world kernel running. Hehe, I finally got it to print hello world. It starts at main and calls print to write a series of characters to a memory location. This is fun. Next is how will I make a timer activate a handler. Of course, no interrupts should be activated, the only signal allowed is the timer.

4:20 PM

Currently studying a business object. Was given several docs to read and get familiar with, other than that, everything is OK.

12:20 PM

Nobody responded to my post yet. It looks like they wanted to fork AtheOS. I really don't know why they want it forked but the only reason I could find is that it has some dependencies on Win32 include files. If they managed to fork it then I guess I'll have to go with it too and I'm hoping they choose Linux as the development platform.