@TrisH0x2A: if you want to write an operating system from scratch this is the wiki almost everyone ends up using the OSDev communit…
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A tweet recommending the OSDev community wiki, a comprehensive resource for writing an operating system from scratch, covering bootloaders, kernels, filesystems, and memory managers with real code examples.
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if you want to write an operating system from scratch this is the wiki almost everyone ends up using
the OSDev community has been building it since 2004
it covers everything from the first bootloader instruction to writing filesystems memory managers and drivers
the articles include real code you can compile and run yourself
the Bare Bones tutorial gets you to a kernel that boots and prints to the screen in around 100 lines
from there the wiki walks through every major piece of a real operating system
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