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You forgot to put something like a OS Development Tutorials for real beginners on the list.
I think something like that does not exist at all.
You know, like there are books that teach you the theoretical things about game development as well as how to do it in DirectX - there is nothing similiar for OSDev beginners..

Otherwise i'd go for compilers and interoreters, because this is a really interresting topic
BUT
it is already covered by a really good Tutorial: Let's build a compiler by Jack Crenshaw. I think it is perfect. The best tutorial about any topic ever!

Freanan wrote: You forgot to put something like a OS Development Tutorials for real beginners on the list.
I think something like that does not exist at all.

They do exist, check out the QuickLinkz page.

chris wrote:

Freanan wrote: You forgot to put something like a OS Development Tutorials for real beginners on the list.
I think something like that does not exist at all.

They do exist, check out the QuickLinkz page.

What QuickLinkz page do you mean?
The Links in the OSFAQ?

I have to admit that now there are good tutorials about various topics on sites like Bona Fide - it was worse when i first decided to get into OS-Development.
Still i think there are no complete tutorials that include everything about OSDev on x86 procesors
ie compiling, booting, protected mode, multitasking, executable file formats, file system and so on...

Well that's almost asking for a book... have you read the Intel docs?

Freanan wrote:

chris wrote: They do exist, check out the QuickLinkz page.

What QuickLinkz page do you mean?
The Links in the OSFAQ?

Consider the sticky thread that's always-on-top, that carries the name "QuickLinkz" and was started and is heavily moderated by Pype, to keep it readable? PS: might be in OSDEV though . Consider reading that forum's sticky thread.

Yes, i read the intel docs.
The problem is, all that is just technical documentation.
In the past i have gotten into all that stuff, but i took me much longer and was much harder then it would have been if i would have had a book that takes me by the hand
The documentation is not that hard to understand, but when you understood it or think you have and try to write code it will not work the most time. It would be different if you have some well documented sourcecode that is extended from chapter to chapter which works and which you can use for your own experiments.
If you are at the university and have to learn things about OSDev, or if you are just older and have a broader background you might not need this, but back when i treid to get into OSDev i just was a more or less good hobbyist c and c plusplus programmer and for people like that it is rather hard to learn something usefull just from technical docs...


(sorry for my sporadic posting )