Operating Systems Implementation

Relocated here from OperatingSystemDesigners

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There are a large number of aspiring amateur Operating System implementers on the web today, a handful of whom have actually produced working and even innovative systems. There are several discussion boards on the topic, some of which are quite sophisticated.

Operating System Projects:

• SkyOS - http://www2.skyos.org/
• ReactOS - http://www.reactos.com/
• Clicker32 - http://clicker.sourceforge.net/
• The M�bius - http://mobius.sourceforge.net/
• BlueIllusion? - http://www.distantvoices.org/
• Agnix - http://agnix.sf.net/
• TunesWiki

(this is just a handful of the current projects; see the OSID for a longer list)

News and Discussion sites:

• OS News - http://www.osnews.org/
• OS Development Message Board - http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum/index.php?board=1
• OSDev.org - http://www.osdev.org/index.jsp
• Operating System Identification Database - http://therx.sourceforge.net/osdev/index.php?page=OSID

Information and Tools:

• OS Kit (apparently the best tool for creating new OSes) - http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/
• Operating System Resource Center - http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles
• Bona Fide OS Development - http://osdev.neopages.net/docs.php
• OS Developer's WikiFAQ - http://mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2
• So You want to Write an Operating System - http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1482
• Climbing the Kernel Mountain - http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1532&page=1
• Therx OS Development Library - http://therx.sourceforge.net/osdev/

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Moved from OperatingSystemsResearch

The Linux Assembly HOWTO by Konstantin Boldyshev and Francois-Rene Rideau has a section specifically on creating a OS : http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Assembly-HOWTO/ownos.html

Create your own Operating System FAQ by Stuart 'Dark Fiber' George : http://mega-tokyo.com/os/os-faq.html

Y.O.S. - Your Operating System : http://sourceforge.net/projects/yos/

The operating system developers homepage, "for the developers of alternative operating systems" : http://www.500mhz.net/

Kernprof (Kernel Profiling) : http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kernprof/