Anon

What did I just read?

>>58360067
unironically install gentoo

Aimed for a particular group

>>58360067
Get a VM (kvm, virutalbox, vmware whatever) and install linux distro of choice, then get every Linux book you can from NoStarchPress. Debian is probably the best bet (because you can experiment with Debian/Hurd later and other microkernels).

Now you want to get K&R book (C programmign language) plus 'The Unix Programming Environment' as an introduction to sed/awk/grep and other filters. That book is still valid, plus has great sections on how to use system calls and even an intro to Yacc/Lex and compiler stuff. Plus it's a tiny book.

You've read all that now what? Now you need CS:APP to understand hardware http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ this will teach you CPU/cache/virtual memory/kernel memory ect. You can go on Abe Books and get the "global version" for like $30.

Great so you've done all that. Now you want to install experimental distros so you can have sane build environments and replications, so download Guix and install it on Debian. Read everything you can about Nix/Guix.

Now proceed to taking an intro operating systems class like:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/ or look on MIT's course page, or any university they all have these courses. If you click 'lecture' soon all those will be filled with slides and pdfs.

Now proceed to take an advanced operating systems course: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15712/syllabus.html there's also numerous other microkernel advanced OS courses where you write the entire userland for L4 kernel (this comes in handy when hacking with Hurd, which is Mach microkernel).

Congrats you are officially a kernel.org committer if you want or can work on Debian/Hurd.

>>58360426
Also notice all the extra book recommendations on those course pages like Eric Raymond's Unix programming book

>>58360183
This.

Read everything, try it first in a virtual machine, have patience. Once you know your way, look at a framework/library for programming, like NCurses.