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  1. -1. Get used to reading docs (RTFM!!)
  2. 0\. If you're not already, get familiar with using Linux
  3. 1. Learn C
  4. -# \- <https://c-language.org> there's resources here. You can find The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) on archive.org
  5. 2. Learn C tooling like make, and how the different parts of a toolchain interact with eachother. You're just gonna have to write programs and optionally become familiar with build systems like autoconf (the thing that gives you `./configure && make && make install` on gnu software)
  6. -# \- <https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/index.html>
  7. -# \- <https://moi.vonos.net/linux/beginners-installing-from-source/>
  8. 3. Learn a bit of assembly. Write some simple programs using GNU as and NASM (<https://nasm.us>) on Linux. You really just need to get a *little* familiar with it, the rest you can learn along the way.
  9. 4. Study osdev theory and existing operating systems (note: OSTEP is required reading, others are optional but at some point recommended)
  10. -# \- <https://web.archive.org/web/20260301025154/https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/> READ THIS
  11. -# \- <https://www.studytonight.com/operating-system/round-robin-scheduling>
  12. -# \- <http://www.rohitab.com/discuss/topic/31139-tutorial-paging-memory-mapping-with-a-recursive-page-directory/> Recursive paging
  13. -# \- <https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~awang/courses/cop5611_s2024/vnode.pdf> Sun VFS - for a Unix-like VFS
  14. -# \- <https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/sys> sys is the kernel
  15. -# \- <https://github.com/NetBSD/src/tree/trunk/sys> sys is also the kernel here
  16. -# \- <https://github.com/sergev/4.4BSD-Lite2/tree/master/usr/src/sys> sys is still the kernel
  17. -# \- <https://elixir.bootlin.com> Linux source code browser
  18. 5. Start with the Limine template for x86_64
  19. -# \- <https://github.com/limine-bootloader/limine-c-template-x86-64>
  20. 6. Start implementing stuff
  21. -# \- https://discord.com/channels/440442961147199490/734353024566296666/1147683737077829793
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  23. (if you forward this please DM me @ averymt)
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