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		tyingq on May 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, wit... "How do you even start building an OS?" Probably not the answer you wanted, but I assume from a poc/toy bootloader. I wasn't disciplined enough to go further, but I did play around getting a toy OS working, and stopped a little bit past that part. This effort, from a one man show, is amazing.

vips7L on May 23, 2019 [–]

I decided I wanted to try this about a year ago.

So far I've learned C [0], x86 asm [1], read OSTEP [2] and begun hacking on xv6 ...and I still feel like I have years to go.

[0] http://www.knking.com/books/c2/index.html

[1] http://opensecuritytraining.info/

[2] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

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