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The best start would be to read a book about operating systems such as Tanenbaums. Reading the source of an OS has a really really low signal to noise ratio in
by irundebian 9y ago
The best start would be to read a book about operating systems such as Tanenbaums. Reading the source of an OS has a really really low signal to noise ratio in getting important knowledge about operating systems due to implementation details an OS-specific peculiarities.
- klez 9y agoWhat about MINIX? Being a teaching operating system, do you think it may contain less nose and thus be more useful as reading material? (I mean, without the book)
- nickpsecurity 9y agoLinus Torvalds started out studying MINIX. He was a Finnish programmer into working on kernels. He ended up completing one.