OSDev.org wiki

(As of: 11 November 2012)

Many people are interested in the process of creating a new . Many people have interesting ideas for improving operating systems. Quite a few people have a brand new embedded system dropped in their lap which, due to "improvements", won't boot an off-the-shelf operating system, and they need help getting  running on it.

The OSDev.org wiki gives these people a place to collaborate on building new operating systems, to document technical details and useful tips and ideas for operating system .

''The registering process is a bit unusual &mdash; when you click the standard "log in / create account" in the upper-right corner, it takes you to a page that says "Click here to create an account." which takes to you a phpBB forum (!). You need to register at the phpBB forum, join its "wiki" group, then come back to the wiki, which will let you log in with the same password.''

The wiki is every week to a downloadable archive zip file. Any content published on the wiki since 2011 must comply with licensing. Prior to this, a somewhat haphazard licensing existed; and included Public Domain,, and  licenses, and these still seem to stand (on an ad-hoc basis) for content before 2011. 


 * Related wiki
 * FreeOsZoo
 * Category:Operating system
 * Category:Robot &mdash; a typical robot often runs a specialized real-time operating system