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[NortonPredator]

Hello, my name is Joe and I am 18 years old. I got basic knowledge in programming and operating system, and I'm interested in building an operating system as a school project I have for a year. The Operating system shouldn't be complicated, only a black window with a "Hello World" message and also I want to be able to compile the operating system using vmware. If this is possible for a guy my age with only a basic knowledge I hope you can suggest me some literature about the programming languages I should learn and about operating systems or writing operating systems or whatever literature you can suggest me to accomplish my task. If you think this isn't possible for me at this stage I hope you can suggest me something less complicated as an idea for a project about operating systems (already got an idea regarding changing some libraries in debian linux but it would be much more interesting to write my own piece of work).

Thanks in advance
Joe ;)

[Excited]

Expanded Main Page - OSDev Wiki

Go for it.

[NortonPredator]

Thanks man, but can you please be a little more specific? Should I read every article there? Or part of them?

[jpconleyiv]

I looked through that link and considering what you're wanting to do I would read everything in it.

The site has a starting point for you: Introduction, then Environment, then Booting and Setup, ETC..

I would start at the beginning and work your way through that project. However I give you credit for doing a project that big.

Good Luck to you!!