Readings on operating systems

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 - Erik Helin, Adam Renberg
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)

Linux

Linux From Scratch - Gerard Beekmans, Bruce Dubbs, Ken Moffat, Pierre Labastie et al. (HTML, PDF, downloads...)

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Last modified 13 March 2025