This easy-to- follow textbook/reference guides the reader through the creation of a fully functional embedded operating system, from its source code, in order to develop a deeper understanding of each component and how they work together. The text describes in detail the procedure for building the bootloader, kernel, filesystem, shared libraries, start-up scripts, configuration files and system utilities, to produce a GNU/Linux operating system. This fully updated second edition also includes new material on virtual machine technologies such as VirtualBox, Vagrant and the Linux container system Docker.

这本简单易懂的教科书/参考书指导读者从源代码创建一个功能齐全的嵌入式操作系统，以便加深对每个组件以及它们如何协同工作的理解。本文详细描述了构建引导加载程序、内核、文件系统、共享库、启动脚本、配置文件和系统实用程序以生成GNU/Linux操作系统的过程。这个完全更新的第二版还包括关于虚拟机技术的新材料，如VirtualBox、Vagrant和Linux容器系统Docker。