Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn Operating Systems?

11 points·imheretolearn··5 comments

I've tried reading some books but those books only explain the concepts with no exercises to apply those concepts. Are there videos, books, articles etc which you would recommend?

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I liked Tanenbaum's book but I think I understand what you mean with theory vs application.

Back when I was working on my toy OS I also bought the book describing the implementation of an OS called MMURTL, apparently the book and the code are now available for free online: http://www.ipdatacorp.com/mmurtl/mmurtlv1.pdf http://www.ipdatacorp.com/mmurtl/ I liked it and found it quite useful but I remember the folks at alt.os.development being quite negative about it because of the design.

Also, Podanoffsky's 'Dissecting DOS' is a good book though obviously focused on, eh DOS.

I always recommend http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ to learn the basics. The two first parts cover most of what you need as a developer.

Aside from the Tanenbaum Minix book, try xv6.

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2019/xv6/book-riscv-rev0.pd...

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2019/xv6.html

In case of Linux, obviously:

CompTIA Linux+LPIC-1 Training and Exam Preparation Guide (Exam Codes LX0-103101-400 and LX0-104102-400); Asghar Ghori

suggestion: go look at early versions of the linux kernel, and try to work out the whys of differences between how things are done in (for example) 0.9 vs 2.0 time spans.

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