Can any individual build an entire opertaing system all by himself/herself .If yes what are the skills required and what programming languages does one need to know.Also have there been any instance of someone acheiving this?
2007-09-30 00:01:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Yes, people can use the kernel from open linux to create their own OS
2007-09-30 00:06:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The skill set you need is C and C++ and most importantly, you must understand the machine language (the hardware address, very low level assembly language)
and it depends on you want to write OS on which CPU chipset, it is different between Intel/AMD i386 processor and Sun Sparc processor.
So that's why you dun see Windows XP running on the Sun Sparc server. (Unless you use someform of virtualization software)
2007-09-30 04:04:09 · answer #2 · answered by shin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can there are of course several factors that will determine what you use.
Almost all of the OPEN SOURCE Programs are written by individuals. and are either added to or subtracted from to achieve a good smooth performing software.
Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird are all open source.
Visiting Mozilla's site will give you further information on the tools that are required to write your own software.
http://www.mozilla.org/
In addition there are several different Programing lanquages used for different purposes, to achieve the end result . I will name you a few.
Fortran, Perl, C, C+, C++,
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos110.htm
Don
2007-09-30 00:12:21 · answer #3 · answered by Don M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well i managed to adapt another OS to make pretty much my own one for an Ipod if that counts? you have to remember that when an OS boots, its because thats what it is programed to do, read from disk ah yes start OS so its built on a kernal in the case of windows, MS DOS
2007-09-30 00:06:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes anyone can.
A great example is Linus Torvalds: he wrote the Linux-kernel. As far as skills and programming languages: I really don't know.
2007-09-30 00:06:40 · answer #5 · answered by pete_can_do 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People make Operating systems all the time. Nowadays you don't need to because you have Windows, OS X and Linux. For embedded you have MicroC/OS so why would you bother to write your own?
You need to know about file systems, interrupts, task switching and scheduling. These days you would write it in C or C++ and cross compile it to what you want. In the old days you'd write it in assembler.
2007-09-30 00:05:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
no pirated version isn't the rationalization , perchance you computing device io getting over load and it has to restart or it might want to correctly be a hardware problem , did you cheak if the computing device restarts precisely after 2:30 hours , ?
2016-10-20 04:05:07 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need a few years of school to understand the know how and practice. In fact, an ingeneer, rather a technicien.
2007-09-30 00:07:57 · answer #8 · answered by kayneriend 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋