Lukol Directory: Computers: Programming: Operating Systems

Porting UNIX to the 386
Historic article series appearing in 1991 that started the open source operating system movement.
http://porting-unix-to-the-386.jolix.com

The OSKit Project
An open source set of libraries that can be used as building blocks for an operating system for x86. Includes documentation and publications.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/

Cottontail OS Development Library
Old non-updated mirror online library covering a plethora of OS development topics. Datasheets, tutorials, reference manuals and hardware programming information.
http://www.osdever.net/cottontail/

Operating System design & implementation Tutorial
A educational tutorial on the development of a real mode, single tasking operating system developed in assembler.
http://www.mohanraj.info/josh.jsp

The Operating System Developers Homepage
Index of operating systems and links to resources for programmers.
http://www.500mhz.net/

The Operating Systems Resource Center
Extensive information about booting, file systems, memory, architecture, and interfacing with other devices.
http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles

LusitanOS
Open source operating system, planned to be an OS entirely made by Portuguese people and built mainly as a way of self-learning and research on operating systems development. [Open source]
http://lusitanos.sourceforge.net/

Virtual Memory Tutorial
Extensive discussion of virtual memory.
http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/modules/vm/

Agnix
An open source project, which has been founded to provide an educational, network operating system kernel.
http://agnix.sourceforge.net/

Groovyweb: Operating system programming
An open source os written in Turbo C (for DOS/ windows) and nasm (Windows/Dos/Linux) as well as two exclusive tutorials on how to write an operating system.
http://www.groovyweb.uklinux.net/index.php...

The Basic Kernel Source Code Secrets
By William Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz (authors of 386BSD OS). Good book to learn the kernel internals of 386 architecture operating systems.
http://jolitz.telemuse.net/content/books/s...

OSDEV Community
A web portal dedicated to operating system development, attracting programmers into an advanced development environment.
http://www.osdcom.info/

Pierre's Library
A resource center for PC operating system developpers. The aim is to provide reliable documents about software and hardware standards under the aspect of official specifications as well as more friendly documents.
http://perso.orange.fr/pierrelib/

Bona Fide OS Development
OS development information and tutorials. Links.
http://www.osdever.net/

visopsys OS Development
A collection of source code, information, and links related to general Operating Systems Development on the Web.
http://www.visopsys.org/osdev/index.html

KernelCode
News and reviews of kernels.
http://www.kernelcode.com/

OSDev
OS Development RSS News, forums, and the OSDev Wiki including the largest listing of ameatur operating system projects on the internet.
http://www.osdev.org

unixsite.net
A repository of UNIX-related material, consisiting of: tutorials, programs, source code and miscellaneous information.
http://unixsite.net/

OS-FAQ Wiki
An assortment of articles related many topics of OS development.
http://www.mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2/

Inter-Process Communication Tutorial
Interactive tutorial about message passing, semaphores, and monitors.
http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/modules/ipc/

ACM Special Interest Group for Operating Systems
Tutorial for writing an operating system and links to group members' projects.
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/

Ace Operating System Project
An open source operating system for X86 architecture. It also contains documents, specifications explaning various hardware.
http://aceos.netfirms.com/

DBLP Bibliography: Operating Systems
Links to many operating systems journals on the web.
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db...

Tuomo Kortesmaa
Notes and example code for basic operating systems concepts, threads, sockets, and device drivers.
http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/

Magneto - Future Of Operating Systems
It is a platform for those newbie OS Developers who want to start developing there own OS but don't know where to start from!
http://magneto.x0b.net

Yet Another Object Oriented Operating System
A project of developing new object oriented operating system.
http://yaooos.org/

Triple Fault Club
Information on writing your own operating system, protected mode, and small independent OS projects with freely-available source code.
http://my.execpc.com/CE/AC/geezer/os/

Operating System Index
A list of educational and experimental operating systems aiming to help developers who are looking for code examples.
http://backster.free.fr

Mainframe Programming
The mainframe continues to grow and transform itself while maintaining its reliability, security and speed.
http://www.muraleedharan.com/mainframe_pro...

Introduction to Operating Systems and Systems Programming
Course details and material.
http://www.narora.net/teaching/cosc1112_11...

How to Program a Bootstrap Loader
A bootstrap tutorial that includes assembly language code to demonstrate loading and executing a binary image from a FAT filesystem.
http://www.omninerd.com/2005/11/05/article...

Operating Systems and System Software
Contains sources of a minimal kernel, a new CPU scheduler for Linux, multithreading in Linux, systems software in DOS and collection of good reference material for OS lovers.
http://www.angelfire.com/myband/unix/os.ht...

KernelNewbies.org
Resources for programmers new to kernel hacking. Example code, FAQs, utilities for debugging modules.
http://kernelnewbies.org/

CS 3210 Design of Operating Systems
A course in operating systems with a focus on the design and construction of a modern OS kernel.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2000/cs...

Operating System Lecture Notes
Notes on operating system theory, source code of describing actual construction of operating system in C programming language. Also OS construction related links to books, notes, tutorials, and news groups.
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/OpS...

Intel Pentium 4 Manuals
The full documentation of system management from Intel for the IA-32 architecture.
http://www.intel.com/design/Pentium4/docum...

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