Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?

Re:Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encount... by tomsmeding on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:38PM (#20559729)

You've gotten to work with both NetBSD and Doom in one summer job? Now I'm really curious what you've been doing. I think I may want that too.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encount... by ashafer on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:12AM (#20562283)

My project was to port DOOM to the seL4 microkernel (on rpi3b+). To continue with that I’ve been porting NetBSD Rump kernel components to seL4 as well.

DOOM itself is a breeze to port. NetBSD can get confusing at times but it’s nice to know there’s always a logical reason behind the design decisions. It rewards you for spending time to understand the code and I like that. Rump kernels are especially cool.

It’s a myth that you can’t get paid to work on BSD ;)

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Re:Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encount... by bitwize on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:56PM (#20560340)

Think about it. When you stand up a new ARM-processor embedded widget for the first time, what are two of the first things you do to verify it works?

1) Port NetBSD to it

2) Port Doom to it

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