Operating Systems: From 0 to 1

tuhdo, can you say more about how the process works to convert your book from lyx text source to pdf? Since the current pdf seems to have particular formatting added to the source text (eg, terms not emphasized in remaining.txt are italicized in the pdf), it's a little tricky to tell. Is the raw lyx file where the formatting rules live? Does the lyx file store its text source in text files, but its formatting rules in binary?

From the book:<p>&quot;If a programmer writes software for a living, he should better be specialized in one or two problem domains outside of software if he does not want his job taken by domain experts who learn programming in their spare time.&quot;<p>Seems a bizarre sentiment, but after reading this sentence, I feel like I really wanna donate some money to the guy. If he gives a way I will surely do.

This looks great!<p>I would also like to recommend another free resource that might be a good complement(theory vs implementation) to this:<p>&quot;Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces&quot;<p>available online at:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pages.cs.wisc.edu&#x2F;~remzi&#x2F;OSTEP&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pages.cs.wisc.edu&#x2F;~remzi&#x2F;OSTEP&#x2F;</a>

Looks very nice so far. One minor nitpick - there should definitely be a chapter on inter-process communication, it&#x27;s an important part of operating systems.

Every time an OS book (about weekly) is posted on HN, I immediately want to jump all over it but I gently remind myself to finish: CMU&#x27;s Computer System&#x27;s from a programmer&#x27;s perspective and Elements of computing (nand2tetris).

For those of you that have read, or at least skimmed, this, how does it compare to the Minix book? (<i>which was a joy to read!</i>)

How much time would it approximately take to work through this?

Seems to be for a x86 operating system. I&#x27;d have preferred some other architecture because so much of OSdev for x86 that I remember was working around quirks of the architecture (A20 gate etc.). I guess it&#x27;s a valuable lesson but I&#x27;d really enjoy a fork of the book for the hardware you find in a Beagle Bone or Pi3 or something. Maybe this could be crowdfunded if the x86 version is popular?

It&#x27;s a from-first-principles guide to building an OS.<p>From the title, I had mistakenly assumed it was about the first OS ever.

I have on my list to read something along the lines like this, but this seems incomplete. Does anyone have anything similar?

Well this has got to be one of the more ambitious things I&#x27;ve seen on HN. I wonder if the guy behind SkyOS is still doing operating systems. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skyos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skyos.org&#x2F;</a>

I will read your book....and thanks for such a book

The hallmark of a Good book is that it should leave you wanting more. That&#x27;s what the book is all about.

On pg 38: <i>Field Gate Programmable Array (FPGA)</i><p>Surely: <i>Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)</i> ?

The grammar makes that book fairly painful to read :-|

Nice job man!