Hi Aniket!
> Like shall I read Minix book etc. or something > like that to get into OS dev? Apps for FreeDOS are just apps, not operating system development. If you want to develop for the KERNEL or DRIVERS, you probably want to download a copy of RBIL, Ralf Brown's Interrupt List. Online versions exist on delorie.com and for example on http://www.ctyme.com/intr/cat.htm http://www.ctyme.com/intr/cat-010.htm > Or shall I start hacking without any prior knowledge You should know what you are doing ;-) If you want to work on drivers for something modern, such as USB, you should be aware that those things are horribly complex. Specs are published, but have zillions of pages. Obviously, you want to improve existing software, not start again from scratch. For example if you want to work on sound output, you could consider contributing to the sound drivers of mpxplay or working on vsb (virtual sound blaster). Virtual hardware involves complicated protected mode stuff, but when a framework already exists, you may get away with programming only the high level virtual hardware logics, not how they are then made virtual. You can also search the mailing list archives for a threat earlier this year about games which have one of the replaceable driver systems for sound: If you have any of those, you could write a NON-virtual sound driver for that interface and current sound hardware which all games with the same interface would be able to use. Another idea is to look at the sourceforge, bugzilla, github or any other type of bug ticket listings for any of the FreeDOS software and consider contributing patches to fix known bugs :-) If your existing knowledge is more in the networked world of modern OS, you could port some code to get ssh2dos or any of the browsers or curl/wget/... apps to support the newest versions of SSL/TLS/SSH etc. Many things are possible :-) It all depends on what you like to do and how much of it. Let us know when you want to share thoughts on specific tasks! And thank you for your help! Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
