i am curruntly using open suse 10.1
2007-02-19 04:27:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
You either need a couple years of self-learning and tinkering under your belt, or a degree in computer science.
2007-02-19 04:32:34 · answer #1 · answered by cs_gmlynarczyk 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you want to make your own?, increase a few years to several or even a decade to make your own. linux is an open source community project, years in the making, thousands of people. multiple degrees in computer science and maybe even a masters in operating systems or command line programming.
if you want to go about the easy way, start off with a kernel, slackware for example. and build a gui around it. just google kde or gnome modifications or skins, and work your way up from there.
from there you could make a linux live cd, novell's suse has one called opensuse, theres knoppix, etc.
2007-02-19 12:36:50 · answer #2 · answered by The_Amish 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are operating system design courses at most universities that offer computer science. One of these courses will not be enough to understand the complexity of writing an OS, however. You will probably need several of these courses, as well as many books on the subject. Be prepared to write many hardware layer drivers, and lots of clunky low level management code. Writing an OS is one of the most difficult things in computer science.
2007-02-19 14:41:45 · answer #3 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a series of electronic books available from Linux from Scratch that will help you gain the knowledge you are looking for. These start with compiling the packages yourself, working up to designing your own distribution. The website is http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/. Good luck.
2007-02-20 01:34:57 · answer #4 · answered by GTMCFARLAND 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋