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Yes, im 'trying' to start OS programming. I have a decent(improving as we speek) C++ knowledge. What are some good tutorials, books, etc. that give the basics of programming an operating system/etc? Most tuts that ive found are too focused in, I just want the basics, concepts, how ud go about doing it. Thanks in advance

As a rule of thumb, if the tutorials don't make sense to you, then you need more general knowledge.

Really, do something else. You might be surprised by how much knowledge gained in different places will help in working on an OS, and indeed on other things. In fact, the fastest path to your OS might begin by working on something seemingly unrelated.

see this recent thread. Among the links suggested by kernelguys.org, you'll get some "generic speaking" information about what problems are encountered within an OS kernel.

Then you'll probably like to have the QuickLinkz ... grabbing and reading a book about linux kernel might be interresting too, or some more theoric book about OS concepts (schilberschatz & galvin or Tannenbaum's books immediately come to /dev/brain).