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Re:Reading OpenBSD source code daily by irundebian on Friday June 09, 2017 @10:54AM (#14521801)
The best start would be to read a book about operating systems such as Tanenbaums. Reading the source of an OS has a really really low signal to noise ratio in getting important knowledge about operating systems due to implementation details an OS-specific peculiarities.
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Re:Reading OpenBSD source code daily by klez on Friday June 09, 2017 @11:08AM (#14521915)
What about MINIX? Being a teaching operating system, do you think it may contain less nose and thus be more useful as reading material? (I mean, without the book)
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Re:Reading OpenBSD source code daily by nickpsecurity on Friday June 09, 2017 @11:19AM (#14522005)
Linus Torvalds started out studying MINIX. He was a Finnish programmer into working on kernels. He ended up completing one.
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