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Market => Product offers => Topic started by: ByteRider on September 14, 2012, 09:43 am
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Been lurking on the forum for a while now but haven't actually sold anything. I'm a software developer and semi-anarchist who's wanting to contribute to the community while supporting myself. So I'm turning to here.
The deal is this: if you need any kind of custom software written, I'll do it for payment in btc. I don't care what kind of software you need and I promise complete discretion and privacy. Additionally, since trust is a huge deal in these things and any LE could provide 'bugged' software, I'll include the complete source to anything I create for you.
Anything I write is cross platform to Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Need something? Get in touch.
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how about a multiseated bootloader that allows you to boot into multiple operating systems at the same time. Like windows and linux simultaneously. I know about VMs and alll of the other options but I want two native systems at once, not a host and a guest.
I doubt its possible without a full hardware/software development team, but I have this twinkling of hope that it might be doable via a customized BIOS firmware.
Another thing I have been wanting is a modified compiz cube that has completely seperate desktops/users/configurations for each side. Something like kde on one side with its own configs, Unity on another, etc.....
let me know
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how about a multiseated bootloader that allows you to boot into multiple operating systems at the same time. Like windows and linux simultaneously. I know about VMs and alll of the other options but I want two native systems at once, not a host and a guest.
I doubt its possible without a full hardware/software development team, but I have this twinkling of hope that it might be doable via a customized BIOS firmware.
Another thing I have been wanting is a modified compiz cube that has completely seperate desktops/users/configurations for each side. Something like kde on one side with its own configs, Unity on another, etc.....
let me know
Doesn't such a bootloader just have to kind of... lie to the two operating systems, telling each that they only have access to half the resources? Maybe just some kind of sub-OS or whatever whose only purpose is to check for requests about the amount of ram/cpu cores, and it alters the responses to each so that both systems use different parts? Fuck if I know, coding at this level is beyond me, by far. Would be fucking amazing if that worked, though. Run a different OS on multiple screens... you'd also have to probably give separate GPUs per OS, though. At least in my theoretical way to do it, which probably wouldn't work. (And different mice or keyboard/a program that can seamlessly move it between OSs.)
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then linux cube systems ? where it like a multi-sided display on one screen ?
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then linux cube systems ? where it like a multi-sided display on one screen ?
Check out some images/videos of the compiz cube. Its basically a visual version of the work space switcher. But I want to have completely separate desktop environments for each workspace. Hell, it doesn't even need to be on the compiz cube (i just thought it would look cooler that way). I would be happy if I could just assign a completely separate desktop environment to each workspace.
The most realistic solution i can think of to accomplish this would be something like a virtual version of the standard multiseated setup. And instead of each seat having its own monitor/keyboard/mouse, it just has a separate workspace that can be switched too and from. the most important part (and probably the hardest) would be to keep the programs and configurations of each desktop completely separate.
EDIT: I just found this (looks like I have some playing around to do):
http://maketecheasier.com/run-multiple-x-sessions-without-virtualization/2009/07/11
This pretty much takes care of all of that. but I would still like to have it all automated on startup (imagine a startup script (or maybe a customized session) that logs into all of the desktops on separate consoles) and then somehow link each console to the separate workspaces or compiz cube sides. Another thing that would need to be addressed is how to put the desktops/consoles and there respective processes to sleep when they are not active. otherwise, this setup would quickly become a resource hog of vista-like proportions.
@BlarghRawr: i don't know if the bootloader would necessarily have to "lie" to the Operating systems. I imagine if it was properly coded it could share the resources between each OS, and constantly reallocating them in real time depending on their individual demands. kind of like with standard virtualization (I think).
I know that this would all be very resource hungry but I am in the middle of building a new powerhouse based around the AMD Phenom x6 1100t. And most of my daily activities would barely use 25% of that CPU (except perhaps, for some of my live audio production/manipulation applications). So I want to think outside the box a little and see how far i can push things via parallel computing activities
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Dang, this is a awesome setup and gives me some idea of how i want my rig to be like
where there's a will there's a way !
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What you are looking for already exists (sort of). With some beefy hardware, you can do multiple kernel layers with xen. The only problem is, you would have to run windows as a guest.
But with VT-D, running windows xp or even win7 wouldn't suck that bad as a guest. But you can set it up to where you literally just do ctrl+alt+fkey and switch instantly between windows, linux, and even mac if you had an intel i7.
But currently, there is no way to get a dual OS setup where they are both running natively.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/5201-63-boot-oses-time
you can read this forum but i think it also talks about using VMWare
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I'm tagging this so I can come back to it when I think of a something ;D