Comments on: GeekOS

By: anton

anton — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:20:02 +0000

Bummer. GeekOS is mad fun. I’m a student at UMD using it now, and I’ve learned a whole ton of stuff about operating systems.

By: Siva

Siva — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:40:10 +0000

Yeah, using GeekOS is very helpful in understanding the concepts of Operating Systems, but it won’t be of any help if you want to write your own OS. What our department (CS dept IIT MADRAS) did was to have a computer organization and assembly programming lab in the semester before the OS course. The assembly programming lab doesn’t limit itself to basics, but introduces deeper concepts of the x86 architecture.

By: Titus Barik

Titus Barik — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:19:14 +0000

Yes, but don’t you think that something like that should be addressed by the department? We don’t ever touch a real operating system, nor do we even look at one, in our entire undergraduate curriculum. It just seems to be getting worse these days, not better, now that the CS2130 requirement has been lifted.

By: Juan

Juan — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 05:14:57 +0000

I think two of the requirements posed by GeekOS are not satisfied in the Georgia Tech curriculum by the time a Computer Engineering major has reached ECE3055. That’s IF those requirements are ever satisfied ever. The first being a strong understanding of the C programming language. Trust me, I know plenty of people who couldn’t get themselves out of a for loop if they had to. The second would be the experience of programming at a system call level. Not enough emphasis is placed in the curriculum about programming in general, and this part is totally left out.