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can anyone help me with making a new operating system, it is call christomoon 2008 (shortend to cristomoon 0-8), please tell me what i have to do!

sorry, shortened to christomoon 08

STFW, RTFM are the two first things I need to say. Learn to search and read. I don't think that you even checked the OSDev wiki, the sticky of this board and I don't think that you even have downloaded the Intel/AMD manuals.

Google is also something good to use. Use it. Some results you might get are sites such as these:

www.brokenthorn.com
www.wikipedia.org (Yes, this contains information)
www.jamesmolloy.co.uk
www.osdever.net
www.osdcom.info
visopsys.org/osdev/index.html
And many other links...

There are several hobby operating systems where you can download the source of (look at the licence before using any code), there are several tutorials, there is the wiki on OSDev, there's a lot of documentation and of course there are manuals.

Just search and read.

Important: read the requirements before even attempting to make an OS. You need at least something like Assembly and some other language in case you aren't going for full Assembly.


Regards, Stephan J.R. van Schaik.

good reply, although i say read up on some existing OS's, follow a tut for hello world OS, read the manuals... then browse the forum for sometime before you think about what you want to acheive with your OS

WTF!! you have posted 3 topics all asking the same question and two of them have been locked already. Please google, and/or read the tuts on the wiki
http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Main_Page I dont think you have even tried or read anything

I should somehow create a device that when someone posts a thread such as this, they get a surge of common senese... telling them to dwell in the wiki for many weeks.

Hi,

operatingsystemgeek wrote:can anyone help me with making a new operating system, it is call christomoon 2008 (shortend to cristomoon 0-8), please tell me what i have to do!

Some notes...

1) This is the best place (forum and wiki) in the entire internet for learning how to develop an OS. If you post the same question twice (or 4 times) the same people will read it twice (or four times) and everyone will think you're an idiot and won't help you. Not being able to get help from the best place on the internet (because everyone thinks you're an idiot) would be a severe disadvantage. Basically, repeating the same question is not wise if you're interested in OS development...

2) The best way to get people to help you is to pay them lots of money. If you can't do that, a good alternative is to find out as much as you can by yourself (e.g. from the wiki, reading other people's post, google, etc) and then use this knowledge to make it as easy as possible for other people to help you for free. For example, a question like "how does an OS work" is too general - someone could spend years writing a partial reply, so no sane person will bother. Instead, you could do some research and then ask (for example) "I want to implement a simple round robin scheduler but I'm having trouble implementing the software task mechanism" and it's very likely people will help, because they can see they don't need to explain everything and they can also see that you care enough to try to figure it out yourself. Basically, if you don't care enough to try to figure it out then other people won't care enough either.

3) Do you honestly think you have the skills and knowledge necessary to succesfully develop an OS? If you went to your local hospital with a pocket knife and some tissues and told the nearest doctor that you want to try brain surgery, would the doctor be willing to help? Unless you've already got some skills and some experience with general surgery, then it's extremely unlikely that you'll have the skills and experience necessary to attempt brain surgery. Unless you've already got some skills and some experience with general programming, then it's extremely unlikely that you'll have the skills and experience necessary to attempt OS development.


Cheers,

Brendan

Brendan wrote:For example, a question like "how does an OS work" is too general - someone could spend years writing a partial reply, so no sane person will bother.

I'd better get cracking then.

Grab the back of your pants, jump up three times, then roll over three times, then wish for the fairy godmother to come and grant your wish...

Just so you know, people dislike you by now.

I mus be in the twilight zone...

operatingsystemgeek wrote:sorry, shortened to christomoon 08

Apart from all the comments on the contents of your rather pointless post, it is possible to edit a post if you made a mistake in it. You don't need to create a second post to correct minor issues.


JAL

I find it funny how this person was so eager to create an OS, (i.e: Posting repetitively..).

But then they just disappeared and haven't been back since the 18th? I suspect someone was trolling.

Brynet-Inc wrote:I suspect someone was trolling.

Or completely discouraged by our attempts to get him to do some work on his own :).


JAL