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As someone who has built his own operating system I wouldn't recommend going at it from scratch. I got much more useful information install Gentoo from scratch.
by overshard 15y ago
As someone who has built his own operating system I wouldn't recommend going at it from scratch. I got much more useful information install Gentoo from scratch. I will never use that ASM knowledge I learned in real life. However, I do use the knowledge of how Linux works from the ground up on a daily basis.
- jff 15y agoNot really... you now know how to install Gentoo, a rather eccentric Linux distribution. To know how Linux works "from the ground up", you'd need to make a start of understanding the kernel source from top to bottom. Then you can go in to learning about the userland things, such as the init system (which is different in Gentoo from most other Linux distros). Doing a stage 1 install of Gentoo or some similarly masochistic distro-installation trick (Linux From Scratch, hurrah!) means you're good at reading an install guide. After you install Gentoo, could you immediately go and write a kernel driver, or even set up NFS, since you know Linux from the ground up?