Discussion topics

The thox approach is that of a microkernel one, which is to separate as much as possible distinct software components in order for the newcomer to be able to understand them one by one without requiring two pages to be opened at once.

In this section, you’ll be able to find design documents and explanations for each of the core components for thox.

• initd: process manager with thox IPC
  • Contexts and interactions
  • thox process manager
• fsd: filesystem daemon
• gpsd: GPS locating daemon
• modemd: modem networking daemon
• rand: random and entropy production daemon

Todo

Some services that could be useful in the future:

• A redstone management daemon.

• A turtle management daemon, for queuing actions and observation results and caching inventory content.

• An HTTP and websocket management daemon.

• A terminal/monitor management daemon, for managing inter-mod screen output and keyboard / clipboard input.

• Virtualization guest package for common emulators, such as CCEmuX, for adding and removing peripherals, opening other machines, etc.

• Sound management? Might require process priorities, depends on if the existing hardware has sound queues or not, but we need to run often even if that’s the case.

• Some database management daemon, supporting SQL?

• Cloud Catcher client daemon, or maybe that should be put in the terminal/screen management daemon with a dependency on HTTP/websocket?

• Maybe Krist wallet management as well? Since it is popular amongst ComputerCraft players.