You might have noticed
- WYOOS is 32 bit
- it does very little in terms of error recovery (network timeouts, resetting the HDD if an error occurs,...)
- some things (like the keyboard layout, HDD block size, instantiation of the network driver) are very hardware-specific and not designed to be easily replacable.
- it has a terrible graphics driver, no font rendering, no USB driver, no virtual memory / paging, no shell, etc.
- many things are quite slow, because they don't take advantage of hardware-features like the GPU or (U)DMA Harddrive access.
Even if the kernel became the best kernel ever - without millions of (sometimes proprietary) drivers, the OS remains next to useless.
For these reasons, WYOOS will probably never be able to compete with the major operating systems, but that is not its goal!
Infact, at the beginning there wasn't even a "goal" at all. I just had some spare time and wanted to show you how to make a Hello-World Operating System, because no such tutorial existed on YouTube at the time. And then I still had some spare time and decided to expand the tutorial to interrupts, so you would have input & output - and then the whole thing took up speed - I became able to record 3 videos per day. I got a bit obsessive - now I wanted to add everything I know about OS development - even learning some more stuff myself in the process (like multitasking and HDDs).
Nowadays, the main goal of the WYOOS project is to give you in-depth understanding of how computers and operating systems work.
The boot-process, hardware-communication, multitasking, system calls, network protocols, gui frameworks etc.
I think it is pretty good at that and maybe - just maybe - it gets you so interested in the topic and gives you enough background knowledge, that you become a Linux kernel developer. I would like it, if that happened
