#osdev @ Libera stats by _whitelogger

Statistics generated on Wednesday 4 March 2026 - 0:00:06
During this 3-day reporting period, a total of 33 different nicks were represented on #osdev.


Most active times
7.5%
7.5
0.3%
0.3
0.2%
0.2
1.1%
1.1
0.4%
0.4
0.3%
0.3
0.3%
0.3
0.2%
0.2
0.1%
0.1
0% 2.2%
2.2
3.7%
3.7
2.9%
2.9
15.8%
15.8
21.2%
21.2
4.5%
4.5
2.5%
2.5
1.5%
1.5
0.9%
0.9
6.3%
6.3
0.6%
0.6
4.2%
4.2
1.8%
1.8
20.5%
20.5
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
0-5 = 0-5 6-11 = 6-11 12-17 = 12-17 18-23 = 18-23

Most active nicks
 NickNumber of linesWhen?Random quote
1 zid203"I still haven't written a malloc, I just have a janky mmap :("
2 nikolar140"why does starting fresh in rust make it "right""
3 heat132"1) i don't want to use any weird distros"
4 chromoblob73"looks more trollish than anything"
5 Ermine71"so there's R/W bit an XD bit on intels"
6 Arsen58"it's a funny thing in english"
7 pog47"congratulations you invented the web"
8 marv700046"i think you're talking about Torsten Duwe?"
9 zer0python44"eh ... can't get to odev.org :("
10 kof67326"mine is 3-4 weeks ago or so ;D"
11 bobbin16"i wonder if he thinks html is a programming language"
12 Mutabah9"rituu16: It's a very effective anti-spam measure on the wiki :)"
13 geist8"mra: that's if you didn't set it up the first time, yes."
14 clever6"it just opens it normally, and claims the tty"
15 mra6"o/ howdy folks!"
16 blockhead6"wish I'd wget'd it beforehand. sigh. too late now."
17 bauen16"Pnatehc13: after you have basic paging done, it might be a good idea to implement a form of malloc for your kernel, then either go in the direction of running programs in usermode or maybe writing a driver for a piece of hardware (e.g. the intel E1000 network card)"
18 pounce6"and disable vectorization "
19 Love_5"i just realized it sounds like im writing warez. its wares."
20 Pnatehc135"Hey all. I've been working on a custom kernel in C. I've got my bootloader, GDT, IDT, and basic paging set up, but I don't have a solid roadmap for what structural milestones should come next. Aside from the OSDev wiki, are there any standard textbooks or architectural reference guides you all recommend for conceptualizing the rest of the core systems? What did you guys use as a reference for th"
21 netbsduser4"also to loongarch which seems to be the hot new thing"
22 GeDaMo4"I have used the TOR browser occasionally "
23 klys2"happy springtime everyone"
24 fedaykin2"html"
25 CompanionCube2"does the internt archive work in links?"


These didn't make it to the top:
rituu16 (2) sortie (2) jimbzy (2) runxiyu (2) linkdd (2)
xenos1984 (1) goliath (1) ZetItUp (1)

Big numbers
Is zid stupid or just asking too many questions? 8.3% lines contained a question!
nikolar didn't know that much either. 6.4% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was heat, who yelled 3.7% of the time!
Another old yeller was nikolar, who shouted 2.8% of the time!
It seem that nikolar's shift-key is hanging: 1.4% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     23:49:00 <nikolar> UEFI


heat just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 0.7% of the time.
Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
zid brings happiness to the world. 2.9% lines contained smiling faces. :)
heat isn't a sad person either, smiling 0.7% of the time.
zid seems to be sad at the moment: 1.4% lines contained sad faces. :(
nikolar is also a sad person, crying 0.7% of the time.
heat wrote the longest lines, averaging 53.1 letters per line.
#osdev average was 49.9 letters per line.
nikolar wrote the shortest lines, averaging 32.2 characters per line.
zid was tight-lipped, too, averaging 43.6 characters.
zid spoke a total of 1682 words!
zid's faithful follower, heat, didn't speak so much: 1326 words.
Pnatehc13 wrote an average of 45.60 words per line.
Channel average was 9.28 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 kernel 31 Ermine
2 would 27 heat
3 because 22 heat
4 which 22 chromoblob
5 about 21 Mutabah
6 there 19 Ermine
7 really 18 marv7000
8 though 17 heat
9 stuff 16 Ermine
10 think 16 heat

Most referenced nick
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 zid 26 nikolar
2 nikolar 23 zid
3 Arsen 22 zer0python
4 heat 20 Ermine
5 Pnatehc13 7 bauen1

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://0x0.st/s/4b3ZYh2zTcdMRv-j4AthjA/P1q4.txt 1 kof673
2 https://codeberg.org/Limine/limine-protocol/src/branch/trunk 1 netbsduser
3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssQIP_bCp1c 1 zid
4 http://www.peterboroughweatherwatch.com/steelgauges/web_serv 1 zid
5 https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD 1 Arsen

Other interesting numbers
Nice opers here, no one got kicked!
Strange, no op was given on #osdev!
Wow, no op was taken on #osdev!
zid always lets us know what he/she's doing: 3 actions!
For example, like this:
     14:50:00 * zid eats his pasta


Also, Ermine tells us what's up with 2 actions.
zid is talking to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 2 times!
Another lonely one was pog, who managed to hit 2 times.
zer0python has quite a potty mouth. 13.6% lines contained foul language.
chromoblob also makes sailors blush, 8.2% of the time.

Latest Topics
A topic was never set on this channel.
Total number of lines: 940.

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