Abstract

The advent of freely distributed operating systems, compilers, and cross-compilers in combination with the radically lowered costs of hardware has made it possible to carry out quite ambitious research in operating systems with modest resources. These same factors make it possible to teach operating systems in a hands-on fashion that offers students more than a "conceptual" understanding of operating systems. This paper briefly describes two research projects in operating system design and a collection course changes, all making use of the Linux operating system. The first research project is aimed at developing a hard real-time executive to run over Linux. The second project is aimed at design of scientific workstation operating systems and is currently focused on IO and file systems. 1 Introduction Low-cost personal computers and no-cost fullscale operating systems permit academic research and teaching in operating systems to be made more interesting and useful. In this paper, I wil...

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