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Writing an Operating System in 1k Lines
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Writing an OS in 1,000 lines.
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6 sourcesSweet!
Folks interested in this may also like "Operating System in 1,000 Lines" https://operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app/en/
and the implementation in C https://github.com/nuta/operating-system-in-1000-lines
In Show HN: I wrote an OS in 1000 lines of ZigI think Pandoc and Calibre could work for you.
I've worked on PAIP, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, and I might be able to help you a bit. It's around 1k pages long. I used Pandoc to generate an epub file, and then Calibre to turn that into a PDF file. I just tried using Pandoc to generate the PDF file directly, and it/LaTeX choked on some Unicode characters.
For internal ebook links, there's a Lua script. You'll have to keep anchors unique across the book for this:
* good: "chapter1#section1_1" and "chapter2#section2_1"
* bad: a "chapter1#section1" and a "chapter2#section1"
WIP: https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/pull/195
For line wrapping of code, there's CSS. I first used it over on "Writing an Operating System in 1,000 Lines"; here's the PR: https://github.com/nuta/operating-system-in-1000-lines/pull/...
In Ask HN: Where are the good Markdown to PDF tools (that meet these requirements)?I made:
* an issue, "make an ebook": https://github.com/nuta/operating-system-in-1000-lines/issue...
* an epub: https://github.com/pronoiac/operating-system-in-1000-lines/r...
The epub is mostly ok but a bit broken.
In Operating System in 1,000 Lines – IntroAuthor here.
I wrote this book so you can spend a boring weekend writing an operating system from scratch. You don’t have to write it in C - you can use your favorite programming language, like Rust or Zig.
I intentionally made it not UNIX-like and kept only the essential parts. Thinking about how the OS differs from Linux or Windows can also be fun. Designing an OS is like creating your own world—you can make it however you like!
BTW, you might notice some paragraphs feel machine-translated because, to some extent, they are. If you have some time to spare, please send me a PR. The content is written in plain Markdown [1].
Hope you enjoy :)
[1] https://github.com/nuta/operating-system-in-1000-lines/tree/...
In Operating System in 1,000 Lines – IntroThis looks nice! I would love to have an ebook version to read on my ereader. I wonder how much effort it would take to use the markdown files in the GH repo and convert those.
[0] https://github.com/nuta/operating-system-in-1000-lines
In Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro