rdos wrote:
Collaborative projects will mean you need to compromise on how stuff is implemented, and unless you have mainstream ideas in that area, this will become a burden. And if you have relatively mainstream ideas, then you are better off joining one of the more mainstream projects like Linux as those are built on such ideas.
You're
exactly right.
0b1 wrote:
My guess is that 99.99% of the folks on here are building an OS from scratch "just for fun" or because they have a unique idea they want to test out.
Yet a complete OS is a mammoth effort - few of us have the time and resources to build something that could compete with Linux, for example.
But my question is, have any group of OS designers on the forum ever tried to get together on a serious project? The downside is, of course, a lot of things will already have been done, but the upside is a lot more progress.
A very few projects here had contributors, unfortunately. Rdos explained well why. Also, I have the perception that everybody here wants to create their OWN project, and very few would agree to just learn kernel development by contributing to other people's project. In other words, the goal often seems to be more about creating a project, than "just" learning. I don't know, that's my perception.
For example, can I ask what's your goal? Mostly learning or mostly developing something?