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Multiboot or custom bootstrap

Back to the osdev thread!
When i read documentations and tutorials on writing an operating system and the grub manual i came across a new thing called the multiboot standard. It said kernels are meant to do a lot of work and worrying about the bios and about how to boot the system should not [...]

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Why another operating system?

Why would anyone want to write a new operating system? Am not sure of why others want to write, but following are the reasons that interest me.

I love systems programming
Existing projects are already too mature for me to contribute anything. The most appealing is the linux kernel, but there is hardly anything left for me [...]

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