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As a side note, the OSDev.org forums do not currently have any subfora for languages other than English. This is deliberate. Splitting the forums up more means less people will read and be able to answer to each topic. Eric Raymond has also made the point that programming in general (and OS development in particular) is a topic with so many english words used that it is easier to communicate in English anyway.
== Programming Background ==
OS development is not a reasonable place to learn how to program in C, assembly, or any other language, something that is pointed both in this wiki and in the forum rules. These warnings are there for a reason, and asking a question that indicates to us that either you didn't read and understand those rules, or chose to ignore them, is unlikely to garner much sympathy here.
It is true that the OS Dev forum has a reputation for being harsh towards newbies. There's a reason for this: OS dev isn't a topic that a newly-minted programmer can reasonably approach. A lot of people jump into the field too early - before they have the background and experience to really understand what they are doing - and get burned by their lack of preparedness. Unfortunately, this leads to us seeing a lot of the same mistakes and problems again and again, ones which could be avoided if the poster had simply read those warnings and followed their advice.
This is not a field that you can learn through simple tutorials, especially if you're do nothing but copying and pasting the tutorial code and trying to make it work without understanding it. The tutorials that do exist - and for most subjects in this area, there aren't any, and their cannot reasonably ''be'' any - are meant as guidelines, not cookbooks. Cutting and pasting code out of several different existing sources and expecting them to magically fit together is simply an unworkable approach to OS dev. You will need to learn a lot, and thoroughly understand what you are doing, before you can expect to approach this field in a meaningful manner.
== Research ==
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