pratyushking / lynox

Lynox is a super-versatile, robust operating system made with Cosmos.

Lynox

Super robust community operating system with Cosmos and affection 💖.

Lynox is an OS that aims to be linux but is written in C#, it follows quite a bit of a unique approach than going 1:1 linux copycat, which is that it has a different style of code, it is supporrted via the CosmosOS framework that allows OS'es to be built in C# or dotnet-based languages.

Progress Done so far

• BLTS is now somewhat functional (Basic Lynox Testing Shell)
• Crash Handling (to some extent)

Building

- Windows

On windows, it's fairly simple being that you have the Cosmos DevKit (specifically from here [https://github.com/PratyushKing/Cosmos] for support reasons) and you have visual studio for windows, that should be enough to build it and test it with your preferrable VM option (mostly VMWare Player).
Alternatively you can use the vmrunner.ps1 file available in the source directory and run that to setup once and for all.

Disclaimer: PLEASE NOTE TO USE RIDER WITH THE PROJECT YOU MUST HAVE POWERSHELL RESTRICTIONS DISABLED, TO DO SO, OPEN AN ELEVATED POWERSHELL PROMPT AND RUN Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned AND INSIDE RIDER YOU CAN PICK THE Run or Run (Show Output).

Alternatively you could use the PDM run options for Rider which means Policy Disabled Mode or that it will just run the script as a terminal script. Highlighted as Run [PDM] and Run [PDM] (Show Output). This means that you cannot stop the process from Rider and it will behave just like a regular script and no different than a make file would.

- Linux

Linux does have a few limitations in this regard with the fact that it only has 1 proper way to run it being QEMU, installing part is very simple now with the help of my [PratyushKing] project, the CosmosCLI (https://github.com/PratyushKing/CosmosCLI) but if you still want to do it the manual way then you can follow the official cosmos wiki online. Now for installation follow:

• Install the CosmosCLI as mentioned above.
• Check if it installed by running cosmos in your terminal. If it didn't, further proceed with troubleshooting or open a github issue in the repository also linked above.
• Then, if it worked with the above steps, run the cosmos-install command from your terminal and it should automatically install cosmos for you in the Home directory of your user.
• Now you can proceed with git clone'ing the repository of Lynox (this current one) via SSH or HTTPS, and if that's all done correctly you should just simply be able to run make iso (inside the project source directory where the Makefile is present) and that should build the iso and put it in the ISO/ folder, alternative to all the make stuff, you can instead just use cosmos -b and it will build too, just make the directory you are in contains the CosmosBuildFile.
• Now to run you can either cosmos -r to run it with the default picked option which is QEMU for the default x86_64 architecture booted with 512 MB of RAM, which will boot the OS in safe mode as the OS will not be able to find a disk file. PLEASE NOTE: if you do not use CosmosCLI then you can still just install cosmos manually, git clone this repository and run make iso for the Makefile build.