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u/annodomini · 3 pointsr/linuxdev

Here are some resources on operating systems in general, that discuss many of these things:

  • You can start from the Wikipedia article on operating system kernels and follow resources from there
  • For just a basic overview of feature support, Wikipedia has a chart on some kernels. There are various charts comparing other components, like filesystems
  • The OSDev Wiki has lots of information on operating system development; it is targeted at hobbyists building their own operating systems
  • Operating Systems Concepts, an undergraduate textbook (Amazon, you can also find pirated PDFs online if you wanted)
  • The Mach Kernel, a chapter from previous editions of Operating Systems Concepts that has later been removed but is now available for free.
  • Linux in a Nutshell (somewhat outdated)
  • The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System (very outdated, but as you'll see with many of these resources, looking at the design of older versions of kernels can be quite instructive without all of the baggage that tons of hardware support, legacy support, and lots of new and complicated features and concurrency primitives that modern kernels have)
  • Xv6, an implementation of V6 Unix for modern x86 processors. This is inspired by [John Lion's Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System](Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System), AKA the "Lion's Book"
  • The Linux Programming Interface has lots of information on the interaction between user-space and the kernel in Linux, and compares many of the interfaces to other systems.
  • Mac OS X Internals details a lot of the inner workings of Mac OS X and the xnu kernel
  • The Minix 3 Operating System and book

    The list goes on and on. This just barely scratches the surface. There is not, as far as I know, any simple side by side comparisons of all of these components of two different operating systems; there are decades worth of benchmarks, academic papers, practical reviews, and so on, but there's no one single source I can point you to, because it's such a big topic.

    That's why I asked you to narrow down your question a bit. Start with that Wikipedia article. Determine what you want to learn more about. You probably want to start with learning about the general structure of operating systems, what they do and what all of the components are, then pick one area and a couple of operating systems and focus on those.
u/yoda17 · 2 pointsr/linuxdev

It's really very easy. I've only written one linux driver for a new hardware serial port and a few other kernel modules and have written a couple dozen drivers for other operating systems.

This is my favourite linux book although I'm sure that have others, it's the only one I can name off the top of my head.

I would start off by adding a new API. That was my favourite exercize and only required a few lines of code.

edit: An Important thing to be able to do is to control the hardware without an OS. When you can do that, squeezing it into whatever is usually a simple task. Arduino is a nice learning platform for hardware.

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u/Korpores · 1 pointr/linuxdev

There is an updated second edition.