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Re:Essence – An Operating System by hcarvalhoalves on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:30PM (#28136533)
Impressive, this looks more feature complete than a mere toy while the source code is succinct enough to be understood.
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Re:Essence – An Operating System by deaddodo on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:07AM (#28138238)
You could sum up most hobby OSes in this manner. My main metric for when it's moved from simply hobby to a potential functional OS is a) are there additional contributors and b) does it have a USB stack.

Quite a few alternative OSes check A, very-VERY few also check B. And only one, that I know of, checks B but not A.

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Re:Essence – An Operating System by capableweb on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:49AM (#28139609)
Seems "essence" checks at least B, from the README of what's working:

> USB: XHCI, bulk storage devices, human interface devices.

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Re:Essence – An Operating System by deaddodo on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:43PM (#28146756)
> And only one, that I know of, checks B but not A.

;)

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