Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of SOS - savannah.nongnu.org

[Jonathan Gonzalez V.]

> David Decotigny <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: SOS
> System name: sos
> Type: non-GNU

> Description:
> This   is   SOS,   a   Simple   Operating   System   for   i386-family
> processors. This is  as simple as possible to show a  way to program a
> basic Operating System on real  common hardware (PC).  The code should
> be easily readable and understandable thanks to frequent comments, and
> references to external documentation.  We chose to implement the basic
> features  of an OS,  thus making  design decisions  targetting towards
> simplicity  of  understanding,  covering  most  of  the  OS  classical
> concepts,  but  not  aiming  at  proposing  yet  another  full-fledged
> competitive OS  (Linux is  quite good at  it). However, for  those who
> would  like to  propose some  enhancements, we  are open  to  any code
> suggestions (patches only,  please).  And yes, there might  be bugs in
> the code, so please send us any bug report, and/or patches !

> The OS comes as  a set of articles (in french) to  be published in the
> journal  "Linux Magazine  France". Each  month, the  part of  the code
> related to the current article's theme is released (see VERSION file),
> and the resulting OS can  be successfully compiled and run, by booting
> it from a floppy on a real  machine (tested AMD k7, Cyrix and Intel P4
> pentiums), or through an x86  emulator (bochs or qemu).  The resulting
> OS is available as a multiboot compliant ELF kernel (sos.elf) and as a
> floppy image (fd.img).  It provides  a very very very basic demo whose
> aim is to  understand how everything works, not  to animate sprites on
> the screen with 5:1 dolby sound.


> Other Software Required:
> binutils, gcc, make, qemu or bochs

Hi David Decotigny:

You didn't send an URL to download the code of your project, can you
send me the code to my email (address@hidden)?

I wish to review the code to catch potential legal issues early and
see how big is the package, thats because Savannah does not host very
big projects, for space and bandwidth reasons. For example, we do not
host GNU/Linux distributions. 

If this will be the case we suggest you split your project into
several smaller ones, and submit each of these separately. 

Regards
-- 
"Emacs the only editor which has its own church"

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