Comment Re:What he misses, Linux is (Score 1) 274
I concur that linux has lost the pioneering edge that it once had.
For more "fun" projects, I've switched (in the hobby sense) to embedded processsors. I've always done professional embedded projects and for the past few years have been having fun with the PIC and recently the ARM processors.
You might want to look at doing applicatons (like stand alone systems) without the use of a canned OS/hardware platform.
Shoot nowadays, if you can solder quad packs, you can get all that you had on the CP/M based machines available as an under $10.00 part. There are even snippets of code for things like RTOS and FAT16 file systems for SD cards and the like.
Of course you can always go with uCLinux.
Although there are active communities with the same interests, they are all on the internet and as I mentioned on my earlier post, they don't have the "face value" associated with geek meeting geek over pizza and a couple of brewskies.
Cheers.
For more "fun" projects, I've switched (in the hobby sense) to embedded processsors. I've always done professional embedded projects and for the past few years have been having fun with the PIC and recently the ARM processors.
You might want to look at doing applicatons (like stand alone systems) without the use of a canned OS/hardware platform.
Shoot nowadays, if you can solder quad packs, you can get all that you had on the CP/M based machines available as an under $10.00 part. There are even snippets of code for things like RTOS and FAT16 file systems for SD cards and the like.
Of course you can always go with uCLinux.
Although there are active communities with the same interests, they are all on the internet and as I mentioned on my earlier post, they don't have the "face value" associated with geek meeting geek over pizza and a couple of brewskies.
Cheers.
