How I Learn Operating Systems

Watch live coding session from kernel developers

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSs0v2Fmnhc

Read Best books

• Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum
• Operating Systems Three Easy Pieces by Arpaci Dusseau

Read Linux Kernel

• Download latest linux version from https://kernel.org and investigate with cursor
  • github.com/torvalds/linux
• ![[Unix Linux Reading List as suggested in Tannenbaum Modern Operating Systems Book#Books on Linux Kernel]]
• Steven Rostedt - Learning the Linux Kernel with tracing (archived)
  • tracing tools
    • dmesg > view kernel logs
    • strace > trace system calls of a process (strace -p <pid>)
    • ltrace > trace dynamic library calls (ltrace -p <pid>)
    • perf > performance profiling (CPU, memory, I/O) perf top
    • ftrace > built-in kernel function tracer
• do source code analysis
  • https://github.com/cgag/loc
  • 
    • https://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html
  • Source Code Analysis

Read Linus Torvalds master thesis

• https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kutvonen/index_files/linus.pdf

Most interesting resources

• Appendix A - The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate (archived)