Offline Copy of OS Dev Site (Not Forums)

[OdinVex]

Any one think it a cool idea to supply an entire-site offline-archive of OS Dev? OS Dev could charge for CDs.

[inx]

Seems a little random, but this is a great idea, IMO. We could even provide tutorial tarballs from willing authors.
At one point, I used to take notes and walk across town to the library once a week to look up what I needed, downloading any source or pages to a flash drive, and I could see the situation arising again.
I don't know if anyone would be willing to do the CDs, but maybe just a nightly/weekly tarball of the wiki?

EDIT: Shouldn't this be in the "OSDev Wiki" section?

[OdinVex]

I hate forums and well I don't use them much at all. So...I dunno where this post belongs. It was RANT and General RAMBLINGS so I didn't think it belonged since it isn't asking for help etc.

[inx]

Valid points, friend. I wasn't meaning to attack you, the edit was meant as an aside for mods if this topic takes off beyond just we two.

[OdinVex]

Oh its quite alright. I knew it was meant well. I wonder...you a serious OS Dev? I've been writing my OS in Assembly. Got as far as:

• 32-Bit Protected Mode
• GDT, IDT, PIC Mapped
• No Paging Yet
• Theoretically (paper...) designed a filesystem

Now what?

[Thomas]

Hi,
try files.osdev.org

--Thomas

[inx]

Thank you, exactly what I was hoping for. There should be a link to this from the wiki, IMO, but I'm not sure where to put it.

[OdinVex]

Hell, front page it. Thank you VERY much!!!

[Nathan]

I'm sure that what you want is here: http://files.osdev.org/osdev_wiki.zip

[OdinVex]

Yeah I downloaded it. Paging should be on the Expanded View page, my opinion.

[Love4Boobies]

The whole point of a wiki is that people constantly correct the content and add new articles. The wiki itself doesn't contain much useful information anyway because once you get past a certain point you know how to do your own research.

[OdinVex]

I understand that but all this is good read for those starting out and can be an offline source for quick reference.

[Solar]

The whole point of a wiki is...

Yes, but sometimes you want to take a couple of those pages and study them at your leisure. Some enjoy online connections everywhere we go, some don't, and downloading it to your pad or whatever sure beats hardcopy.

I didn't know about files.osdev.org either. Good resource!

[Kelden]

I'm going to put this on my mobile to go with my rss feed of the forums. It will be like the hitchiker's guide to OSdev.