I can't understand how this topic appeared on/....., anyway:
The well-known way of sending parcels to Russia is to find somebody who goes there. Even if you have no such friends, you can search local conferences of russian immigrants/workers and ask for a favor (for example, news://fido7.russian.z1). Depending on how mercantile the person is, it can cost you from a bottle of vodka to $100. There are little chances that somebody is going to Khabarovsk, but the parcel can be send by local Russian postal service once it gets inside. Of course, nobody gurantees it will reach destination, but at least you can be shure that nothing will be stolen by customers.
Not easily and not simple, but IMO it is possible. Having very good knowledge of all targeted hardware platforms, one can create abstractions for hardware (IRQ, port IO, memory IO and mapping, etc) and some kind of portable kernel-specific RTL. I'd developed NT drivers several years ago and NT HAL architecture is very good in this sense. Can somebody tell about Linux? BTW, they didn't mention Apple. Is it so totally different?
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I can't understand how this topic appeared on /. ...., anyway:
The well-known way of sending parcels to Russia is to find somebody who goes there. Even if you have no such friends, you can search local conferences of russian immigrants/workers and ask for a favor (for example, news://fido7.russian.z1). Depending on how mercantile the person is, it can cost you from a bottle of vodka to $100. There are little chances that somebody is going to Khabarovsk, but the parcel can be send by local Russian postal service once it gets inside. Of course, nobody gurantees it will reach destination, but at least you can be shure that nothing will be stolen by customers.
Not easily and not simple, but IMO it is possible. Having very good knowledge of all targeted hardware platforms, one can create abstractions for hardware (IRQ, port IO, memory IO and mapping, etc) and some kind of portable kernel-specific RTL. I'd developed NT drivers several years ago and NT HAL architecture is very good in this sense. Can somebody tell about Linux? BTW, they didn't mention Apple. Is it so totally different?