General
- A short introduction to operating systems (2001) - Mark Burgess (PDF)
- Computer Science from the Bottom Up
- How to Make a Computer Operating System (:construction: in process)
- How to write a simple operating system in assembly language - Mike Saunders (HTML)
- Making Servers Work: A Practical Guide to Linux System Administration - Jamon Camisso (PDF, EPUB)
- Operating Systems and Middleware (PDF and LaTeX)
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (PDF)
- Practical File System Design: The Be File System - Dominic Giampaolo (PDF)
- Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System, a Compiler, and a Computer - Niklaus Wirth & Jürg Gutknecht (PDF)
- The Art of Unix Programming - Eric S. Raymond
- The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels - Antti Kantee
- The little book about OS development (PDF)- Erik Helin, Adam Renberg - This is not your typical dry academic textbook. It’s a hands-on, step-by-step guide aimed at hackers, tinkerers, and developers who want to demystify kernel programming. The book walks you through setting up your environment, bootstrapping your OS, handling interrupts, implementing virtual memory, and even tackling system calls and multitasking. It provides just enough detail to get you started but leaves room for exploration – because, let’s be honest, half the fun is in figuring things out yourself.
- The Little Book of Semaphores - Allen B. Downey
- Think OS: A Brief Introduction to Operating Systems - Allen B. Downey (PDF)
- UNIX Application and System Programming, lecture notes - Prof. Stewart Weiss (PDF)
- Writing a Simple Operating System from Scratch - Nick Blundell (PDF)
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