Hey I am CS student I already studied assembly language and couple of languages and I am currently studying OS course, I know it is really difficult to make an OS but I want to try it (helping the project).
What I should do since I never had an experience with developing an OS, should I study something first (I need a guideline).
Regards !
Thanks!
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Hello and welcome to the Haiku community! 
If you would like to get a better understanding of Haiku, I believe there are multiple ways to do so:
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On your journey, there are multiple development resources available at https://www.haiku-os.org/development/, which range from simple coding tutorials, links to Haiku’s API references, and many other resources
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Take a peek around the Haiku bug tracker and look for tickets labeled “easy” to start with some easier tasks to familiarize yourself with Haiku:
https://dev.haiku-os.org/query?status=assigned&status=in-progress&status=new&status=reopened&summary=~easy&order=priority -
Take a look at the Haiku source code directly, as there is no better way to learn about an operating system than to take a peek under the hood: https://github.com/haiku/haiku/tree/master/
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Finally, if you have any questions, feel free to ask here, on our IRCs (https://www.haiku-os.org/community/irc), and on our mailing lists (https://www.haiku-os.org/community/ml)
I wish you good luck!
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Can I also add - filing bug reports that are concise and reproducible by the devs is also improving Haiku. Do not underestimate impact of good bug reports!
(Software tester out)
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Thanks for listing the steps to get started.
I also want to contribute to haiku.
To get how it feel to run haiku I ran it on virtual machine and live dvd it went smooth.
Next I’m trying to compile it’s source code by following documentation.
I tried to understand source code for few component but not able to understand much.
Can you suggest how to understand the source code for a particular component like network and how this is connected to other components. So it become easy to understand any bug.
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Try to start a simple program and practice can help you, or you can try to port your favorite not ported apps for haiku, it is more or less easy and helpful.
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