A feature at OSAlert for many years, the OS Resources page has been a popular reference for OS enthusiasts, but it hasn’t been tended very much over the past couple of years, and it’s in need of an update. While the OSAlert staff will be working on making our own updates, we wanted to involve the readers, so we’ve set up an OS Resources Wiki to help with collaboration. Please “read more” if you’d like to help out.
This won’t be the permanent home of the resources page, just a place for us to work together for a week or two. Anonymous editing is on, so you don’t need to log in or sign up to participate. If you are working on the update, though, we’d like to know who’s helping. Please contact us with any questions about the Resource Page update, or just to let us know you’re contributing.
If you have any big ideas for how the resources page can be improved, feel free to be bold. We don’t have to limit it to the kind of thing that’s always been there. If there’s a groundswell of interest among readers to dramatically expand the Resources section, we’ll be happy to provide the framework to build it.
Make additions to the page in black, and any comments for other contributors in red.
Tanenbaums book are well written, but largely irrelevant.
There are tons of good OS books out now… so let the OS Resource update fest begin.
Oh I don’t think that’s fair. OS Design & Implementation is still used heavily in university OS courses, and Modern Operating Systems is a good, broad book all ’round. Don’t think it’s not relevant because OS Design covers a microkernel. The core concepts are still perfectly valid.
As for the “How to Write Your Own OS” section, why not just link to the osdev.org wiki? Insanely stupid to maintain two such resources.
Edited 2008-05-19 19:22 UTC
You bring up an important point. It’s not necessary to reinvent the wheel. However, if several people are working on competing types of wheels, I’d like to link to both of them.
AFAIK (And I’ve been osdeving for a few years now.), osdev.org is the only actively maintained wiki on the web. The other two resources (BF and OSRC) are not of the same type of ‘wheel’, so there isn’t any competition between them.
Edited 2008-05-19 19:50 UTC
Other than bookmarking http://www.osnes.com/resources , how do users normally navigate to this page?
That’s the point – I removed the link because the page was so stale and we’d like to relink it from the navbar.
I remember back when i first discovered OSAlert, it was only for it’s Res. Page, and i used it extensively to learn about alternative OSes.
There’s already web site called OSLiving.com that is pretty much what you’re aiming to create as far as “listing open source operating systems” goes. It doesn’t really attempt to list books and stuff though.
Anyway, it’s relatively new, but it’s already been Dugg a couple times, and has a pretty nice setup.
In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve written for the blog part of their web site, but the “main part” of the web site is definitely the index of open source projects.
Edited 2008-05-20 03:09 UTC
But this isn’t just about Open Source. So while there may be some overlap, it will also have resources for non open source operating systems.
Check out the first part of what I wrote.
So, what are we aiming at? A list of relevant current OS projects would be nice, perhaps. I have > 100 OS links in my browser, but I can hardly just dump everything. Listing OSes should imho also be catagorized (e.g. POSIX on PC, Amiga, embedded, etc.).
JAL
Yes, we would like a list of all relevant OS projects. If you don’t have the time to add all the links if your bookmarks to the wiki, please email us the list and I’ll go through it and add them.
Yes, and I think categorizing them is a great idea.
I would maybe like to see a list of self-directed educational OS projects, such as GeekOS. (http://geekos.sourceforge.net/). I worked through a couple of the projects and found them to be very helpful in expanding my basic understanding of OS concepts.
Anyone know of any other such projects? PintOS also comes to mind, but I haven’t had the opportunity to try it out.
Hey, where’s the post from our resident Losetheos patron?
http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Projects
http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Resources
http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Books
In the interest of being bold…
Keep the page as a wiki so it never gets out of date again. Or the content of the page could be created by exporting content from the OSDev.org wiki.
At the time of this post, OSDev.org forums are offline. DB error.
When did you see the DB problem? I had to restart the DB for the first time the day before your post. Have you seen problems since?
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Edited 2008-05-22 03:28 UTC