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Untitled 32bit Graphical OS

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Features/Limitations

  • Higher half multitasking kernel
  • Essential stuff like paging, interrupts, PS2 mouse/keyboard support
  • FAT32 filesystem with LFN support
  • Userspace
  • Framebuffer graphics (using shared memory)
  • Event system (using shared memory)
  • Shared libraries
  • A single userspace OS API in the style of win32 API
  • Binary compatibility between apps and the OS (in theory :P)
  • Libc using baselibc
  • Runs DOOM using doomgeneric

Currently relies on multiboot/grub to provide a ramdisk and a framebuffer. Does not have SMP support.

Architecture/Motivation

I started this project to learn more about the inner workings of graphical multitasking operating systems. There's no end goal, I just work on it whenever I feel like it.

This is a completely monolithic OS with a single userspace API for everything (task management, file I/O, window management, etc...). All an application needs to do is to include os.h and dynamically link against api.so. This provides Application/OS binary compatibility and allows you to rebuild the kernel without rebuilding all the apps and vice versa (as long as the API doesn't change). The kernel is not unix based.

I try to keep things as simple and understandable as possible whilst still being speedy. There are tons of security holes, that's not a priority right now.

I used these projects as reference for implementing the more tedious parts (Thanks!):

Building

Requires clang, 32bit libgcc (gcc-multilib on debian), NASM, mtools and xorriso.

To build:

make

To build and run (using qemu):

make run

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