Kyunix

Kyunix is experimental operating system written from scratch in C.

Aimed to be POSIX compliant, combining ideas of unix like systems and modern software practices.

Currently based on aenix.

Dependencies

• GCC
• NASM
• genisoimage
• bochs
• Make
• package libc6-dev-i386

If you are running Ubuntu 10.10 or later, these can all be installed by running

sudo apt-get install build-essential nasm genisoimage bochs bochs-x

Building

cd src
make

Implemented Features:

• fb driver.
• Serial COM1 kernel logging.
• elf binary support.
• segmentation/paging.
• dynamic memory allocation, malloc/free.
• Interrupts and Input.
• kernel and usermode applications.
• system calls
• read-only file system
• multitasking
• shell (basic command parsing)
• libc

Planned

Core:

• networking (ip stack)
• vesa graphics card driver
• compostive GUI (GEM stack)
• fancy splash screen
• Multiprocessor/core support, SMP
• self healing features
• real file system,ide driver
• os installation on physical hdd

Apps:

• text editor.
• process manager.
• man pages.
• irc client.
• gcc port.

Running

cd src
make run

Documentation

Can be found in docs.

License

GPLv3