[Nyce]

Hey guys/girls, im here today cause i wanna find out a little information on building mobile operating system. I was wondering wich language would be best for this project, And where to download stuff to help me build my operating system.So if you have any information on operating systems you think i should know about post it here.


Thx nyce

This post has been edited by Nyce: 20 September 2010 - 09:30 PM

[no2pencil]

face palm.

It is a proven & proven again fact. If you ask questions like these, you shouldn't bother starting development of an OS.

[coden4fun]

Operating systems aren't just built with a single language, nor with just one programmer. Start small. Make a single application for the OS even if it computes a single calculation of 2 integers the user puts in the fields and adds, subtracts, etc...

Start small, work your way up. If you're new to programming, which it definitely sounds like you are to me, start with an easy to understand language and work your way up to the more difficult languages. Explore the place and ask some good specific questions here and I'm sure the community would be more than willing to help you out.

May I suggest if you are completely new start with HTML (all you need is HTML, and the internet to look up a good HTML tutorial) make yourself a single webpage that shows your competency of what you learned in the tutorial and then slowly start making the page(s) more difficult as you progress.

[no2pencil]

Sorry for the short, negative comment, but coden4fun really hits on a few of the key points that I didn't bother to provide.

The truth is (from my point of view) it sounds like a fun, time lengthy, high value output task, however I've found that it's a extremely time consuming, low entertainment value, high redundancy of re-tracing mistakes & steps made by others, lots & lots of reading, just to come to the conclusion that someone else has already provided a better solution 5 years ago, & you're reinventing the wheel. Except that yours is trapezoid shaped & really doesn't work because the key values & reasoning are missing.

Start with the concept of learning how to develop a boot loader. How that bios detects, maps, & makes available attached devices & looks for the MBA on all attached drives. Keyboard input/output in a non-buffered, 16-bit unprotected element. If you can code this, then you may be able to (or have further desire to) pull off writing something low level. You may also realize, wtf am I even trying this, it's silly, old, & redundant.

[Nyce]

its ok and i meant mobile operating system
sorry.

[no2pencil]

Same rules apply, you're just writing for a specific processor. I'm assuming it's ARM related. Why not just grab an ARM release of Linux? Only reinvent the wheel when you need to. & when you know why you need to, you generally don't end up asking "How do I do X?", because you know what's missing, & you have a general idea as to what needs applied.

Starting from scratch is... well commendable. But by the time you end up with anything useful, most likely your mobile device will be somewhere around five release versions old.

[Nyce]

I understand .... lol i got confused with something else overworked in my studies lol...this thread was for the dummies who dont know anything i wasn't here lol....ughhh

[calvinthedestroyer]

Dude, You can just BUY a copy of windows CE. It is designed for mobile devices. OR you can get an embedded Linux system like WE showed you BEFORE!