archibate / newos

A hobby unix-like operating system

New OS

A hobby unix-like operating system

Equipped with:

• a simple shell.
• filesystem NeFS made from stratch.
• busybox-like command line utils.
• vi as the text editor.
• fork() copy-on-write.
• ELF dynamic linking like a DLL.
• Simple C standard library.
• I/O multiplex by ionotify(), a subset of poll() from stratch.
• optional graphical user interface (toggle by VIDEO=1 in Makefile).
• simple window manager based on System V IPC.
• simple IDL langurage generating IPC code.

Enviroument:

• Arch Linux (x86_64)
• gcc 9.1.0
• nasm 2.14.02
• binutils 2.32 (for ld, strip, objcopy)
• coreutils 8.31 (for cat, dd, etc.)
• make 4.2.1 (for Makefile)
• qemu-system-i386 4.1.0 (for simulation)
• bochs 2.6.9 (for bximage)
• python 3.8.0 (for tools/idl.py)
• gdb 8.3.1 (for debugging)
• tigervnc 1.13.1 (for viewing)

To build:

make all

will create build/boot.img.

To run:

make run

will run our OS in qemu.

vncviewer :5900

to view the console.

try typing this in our console:

vi /usr/src/snake.c

To run in graphics:

make clean
make run VIDEO=1

will run our OS in graphics mode (work in progress).

vncviewer :5900

to view the graphics.

try typing this in the serial terminal:

bkg xinitd
xtest

Errors on your machine?

Please contact me at [email protected].