How to create an Operating system

[BlackStar0703]

Hey does anyone know how to create their own operating system, I thought i might make one but don't have a clue where to start lol?

[Dr_Phil]

I don't know how to make an Operating system. I'm sorry.
But I know that Linus Torvald has created one.
It is called "Linux".
And do you know what?
It is Open Source! That means that you can use his code and modify it for free!
So I suggest that you read the code behind the Linux kernel and then you maybe can think about how to make an Operating System.

[old_red_boots]

it is near to impossible to do an OS you alone, and you need to know program very very well in ASM and C. If you don't know some of this you can do nothing. the only thinking of doing a boot program makes me have headaches.... and don't spect any GUI for your homemade OS, i would be command style.... But if you only wanto to do some modifications, as someone said before me, you can get a linux distribution, get the kernel source and recompile it with your preferences

[thedotmaster]

www.linuxfromscratch.org/

[thePuppeteer]

This may help, I used it once before. Allows you to build it with just the things you want with nothing more, and nothing less. Hope it helps

(its slax)

[orwell84]

Before you start to code it, learn C and Assembly.
Really well.

[faazshift]

Ive never made an operating system, but from my personal study of linux an operating system is basically the kernel (which is basically a collection of drivers and such that make the OS work), as well as whatever programs you set up to run on top of the kernel. In looking through the kernel source code it looked like it wasn't terribly difficult to write drivers. As long as you have a good learning curve and programming knowledge (particularly low-level), you should be able to make an operating system.

[macrocat]

I don't know how to make an Operating system. I'm sorry.
But I know that Linus Torvald has created one.
It is called "Linux".
And do you know what?
It is Open Source! That means that you can use his code and modify it for free!
So I suggest that you read the code behind the Linux kernel and then you maybe can think about how to make an Operating System.

Yes, if you like incompatability with 90% of network adaptors out there.

[JakeMS]

You should start by opening wordpad or something

Oh, and eh see you in a couple of years when your finished with everything....

Good luck!

[insomaniacal]

I don't know how to make an Operating system. I'm sorry.
But I know that Linus Torvald has created one.
It is called "Linux".
And do you know what?
It is Open Source! That means that you can use his code and modify it for free!
So I suggest that you read the code behind the Linux kernel and then you maybe can think about how to make an Operating System.

Yes, if you like incompatability with 90% of network adaptors out there.

I'd say its compatible with at least 60-70% of adapters, however, many laptops use slightly modified versions of retail chipsets, and so it occasionally causes glitches with the current drivers that are out. Not to mention, almost all wireless cards can be made to work by using ndiswrapper.