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| 30 | jermar | 1 | \chapter{Introduction} |
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| 3 | The HelenOS project\cite{helenos} is an effort to develop |
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| 4 | portable and general purpose operating system. Operating systems |
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| 5 | in general are very non-trivial pieces of software. It takes many |
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| 6 | people, many months and many tools to design and develop even medium size |
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| 7 | and feature-limited kernel and userspace layer. |
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| 9 | This report aims to document the development process of the HelenOS |
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| 10 | operating system as it is specified in \cite{helenos-spec} and as |
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| 11 | it has been carried out by the original six developers (i.e. \JJ, |
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| 12 | \OP, \MD, \JV, {\JC} and \SB) in their work on Software |
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| 13 | project\footnote{Software project is the name of a subject at MFF UK. |
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| 14 | It is supposed to last two semesters at least.} |
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| 15 | at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in |
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| 16 | Prague. Other aspects of the wider HelenOS project (e.g. master theses |
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| 17 | related to the topic) are not discussed here. |
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| 19 | \section{How to read this document} |
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| 21 | Chapter \ref{project} provides an insight into project's timeline, |
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| 22 | planning, development. It also presents some statistic data |
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| 23 | related to the HelenOS project. |
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| 25 | Chapter \ref{developers} evaluates contributions and project dedication of |
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| 26 | each individual developer. |
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| 28 | Chapter \ref{tools} gives thorough coverage of the third-party |
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| 29 | software involved with HelenOS and also experience comming from |
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| 30 | using that software. |