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I am new, so I don't really know anything. But What is needed for an OS (program wise and can you give an exampple)
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Hi,

Axcel wrote:I am new, so I don't really know anything. But What is needed for an OS (program wise and can you give an exampple)

That's a difficult question to answer...

For a modern general purpose OS I'd say you need some boot code, a kernel, some device detection code, some power management code, a lot of device drivers, networking protocols, firewall, file systems and file system tools (format, defrag, checkdisk), an "fdisk" utility or partition manager, an OS installer, a GUI and a package management utility (or "system update" utility).

For a small embedded OS all you'd probably need is a kernel.


Cheers,

Brendan