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Want To Write Your Own OS?

Posted by Hemos on from the a-trivial-task dept.

DJSlakoR writes "Looks like the Nocturnal Network has a tutorial on how to get started coding your own operating system. A very interesting read!"

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  1. an even better tutorial... by Horny+Smurf · · Score: 5, Informative
    ... is Tanenbaum's books. "Linux is obsolete" might not have been his finest hour (although some of his points were valid, and linux has since added module support to cut down on the monolithic nature), but minix is a learning OS (in the same way pascal is a learning language), and is much easier to understand (and better documented :) than the linux kernel is.

  2. Re:Just like Linus. by Arandir · · Score: 4, Informative

    He didn't take GNU and write a kernel for it. The reason was that there was no GNU System at the time! There was a compiler, a shell, and some other stuff, but it wasn't anywhere to being close to an operating system.

    Quite the opposite happened in fact. GNU looked at the fledging Linux operating system and started porting their stuff to it. Glibc was written for Linux, not the other way around, for one example.

    GNU was not an operating system that merely lacked a kernel. When RMS says that Linus merely dropped in a kernel, he is lying. Otherwise it wouldn't have taken Debian years to get Debian HURD bootable. It wouldn't have taken them years to get a Debian BSD to boot. I don't know how anyone can consider Debian "The GNU System" when it took crowbars, sledgehammers and ripsaws to get it to use The GNU System's own kernel. Yet Debian is closer to what RMS means by "The GNU System" than anything else out there.

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