Wiki Article Predjudice [split from: the OSDK]

[KotuxGuy]

I beg to differ; virtually all of the wiki tutorials focus on Linux.

Even if you're right.. The penguin rocks.

[fronty]

I beg to differ; virtually all of the wiki tutorials focus on Linux.

I don't recall any tutorials or articles that focuses on Linux. Article about loopmounting contains info about Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but this doesn't count, because it's not entirely about Linux, and loopmounting isn't supported by Windows (if you don't count 3rd party hassles as loopmounting). Many tutorials use GNUs toolchain, but it isn't tied to Linux.

[KotuxGuy]

OK,then, *nix in general.

[pcmattman]

OK,then, *nix in general.

Examples wanted.

[KotuxGuy]

http://wiki.osdev.org/Bootable_El-Torit ... RUB_Legacy
http://wiki.osdev.org/Makefile
http://wiki.osdev.org/OS_Specific_Toolchain
http://wiki.osdev.org/GCC_Cross-Compiler
http://wiki.osdev.org/GDC_Cross-Compiler
http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/
http://wiki.osdev.org/Resources#Sample_Kernels

EDIT:

This is just for *nix only tutorials or articles. I could not find even 1 article that focused on Windows only.

[pcmattman]

http://wiki.osdev.org/Bootable_El-Torit ... RUB_Legacy

Used this exact tutorial on Windows. mkisofs has been ported to Windows.

http://wiki.osdev.org/Makefile

Uh, no. I can use Makefiles on Windows too. A *nix concept perhaps, but not *nix-specific.

http://wiki.osdev.org/OS_Specific_Toolchain

Perhaps *nix specific as you need Cygwin on Windows to complete this. Or MinGW.

http://wiki.osdev.org/GCC_Cross-Compiler

The article was actually written for those on Windows using Cygwin or something similar.

http://wiki.osdev.org/GDC_Cross-Compiler

See above.

http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/

Way to post a link that isn't actually part of the wiki?

http://wiki.osdev.org/Resources#Sample_Kernels

Example source code is *nix-specific?

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This is just for *nix only tutorials or articles.

Seriously, none of these tutorials are Linux-specific. Things like loop mounting are by nature specific to an OS.

The closest you get to *nix-specific is the tools in use, which are freely and easily available on Windows. Nobody is disadvantaged by being on Windows when reading wiki articles (apart from the previously mentioned OS-specific content).

I could not find even 1 article that focused on Windows only.

Why does there need to be? Most of the articles work out of the box on Windows.

[KotuxGuy]

Oh, come on. For Windows to work with all that stuff, you have to bolt extra stuff on to it.And almost all of that source code is made to compile with *nix tools.

[pcmattman]

Oh, come on. For Windows to work with all that stuff, you have to bolt extra stuff on to it.And almost all of that source code is made to compile with *nix tools.

What, Cygwin? That's the extent of the "extra stuff" you need. It even has a nice package manager to make life really easy.

I have to install extra stuff on Linux too to work with some of the wiki articles, genius.