Operating System
A program that runs programs.
Resources
- Textbook:
Operating System Concepts | Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne
- Website — contains slides, exercises, a study guide (like a cheat sheet), etc.
- Putting the "You" in CPU | CPU Land
- What happens after you run a program?
- Basic modes, multitasking, exec, ELF, paging, fork, etc.
- Operating System in 1,000 lines
(HN)
- Writing an operating system in c within 1000 lines
Sites
- The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP): guides, how-to, tones of resources
- Brendan Gregg's Homepage: a personal site with many system performance resources
Links
- A video game where you are an operating system
(HN)
- Fun for nerds. Handle CPU cores, processes, memory pages and swap space
- Linux kernel map
- Hello World
(HN)
- What happens when you compile and run a hello world program in C, down to the assembly level, standard library, syscall and then kernel
- Beej's Guide to Interprocess Communication
- Fork, pipe, locks, semaphore, shared memory, unix sockets