Lauri Järvenin sat hunched over his desk, the faint hum of his computer is the only sound in the dim-lit room. His finger flew over the keyboard, each stroke a whispered promise to the future, a testament to his project. He could feel the pulse of the code beneath his fingertips, like a living entity waiting to be born.
Aberration OS. The name had come to him in a moment of clarity, a fleeting vision of an operating system free from the constraints of corporate control. A system that would be truly open, open to anyone and everyone. A platform unshackled by the need of profits, a digital haven for anyone who wanted to shape their environment, not be shaped by it. It was a dream. No. It was more than that. It was his calling
But Lauri... just know some basics things about programming
At first, it had been simple. He had written a small kernel, designed to be lightweight, modular, and capable of evolving. But now, as he typed, the project had grown from a personal challenge to something much larger, something that clawed at him every waking moment. The lines of code blurred together, like brushstrokes on a canvas that had yet to take shape. And it was far from perfect. His first alpha was a chaotic mess, riddle with bugs and instability. Lauri didn't care, not yet.
The flickering cursor blinked back at him, an unsettling void of possibilities. The system he was creating... this raw, unrefined code... wouldn't beready anytime soon. But it had to be done. It would be done. He refused to entertain failure.
Lauri ran his fingers through his messy hair and looked at the terminal on the screen once again.
"Hmmmm what can I do? I'm just a noob at programming." His voice was sad, but he won't stop.
The console was still open, he was thinking a solution for the first problem. The current iteration of the system was nowhere near usable, but that didn't stop him from testing it repeatedly, compiling and rebuilding over and over. Each crash, each failure, only fueled his obsession. Aberration OS was his puzzle to solve.
"Let me try this"
#include
#include
void init_kernel() {
printf("initializing Aberration OS...\n");
if (load_system_files() == NULL) {
printf("Error: System files not found.\n")
panic("System failure");
}
printf("Kernel loaded successfully.\n");
}
void panic(const char *msg) {
printf("PANIC: %s\n", msg);
while(1) { // infinite loop to halt execution
__asm__("hlt");
}
}
"Now... let's try this...." he said.
// Main system loop (stub for testing)
while (1) {
// Test code: loading data to simulate system process
unsigned char data = rand() % 256;
("Running system process with data: %u\n", data);
KERNEL PANIC: CRITICAL ERROR ENCOUNTERED DURING THE PROCESS
"Damn it" Lauri said.
The code was riddle with issues. The screen occasionally filled with strange, garbled characters. Other times, the system would freeze entirely, the black screen of the terminal mocking him.
"What I'm doing wrong?" He continues to repeat it to himself, but he clearly know that he is a noob
The crash logs grew longer by the day, and Lauri was increasingly lost in their maze of errors and warnings.
He glanced at the wall, where sticky notes were plastered everywhere: "Fix memory leak"; "Optimize file system"; "Handle interrupts properly". Each one a small piece of the larger puzzle. Each bug a weight pressing down on him.
But his obsession had only grown. Each failure, each iteration that didn't work, only drove him deeper into the code. Lauri wasn't discouraged. He couldn't afford to be. The ideal was too pure, too important.
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Lauri Järvenin: Eyes: light gray Hair: short, wavy and white Height: 172cm Build: slim Clothes: at the moment just his pj.