While reading the little book about OS development, I worked through some of the exercises they presented and put together pieces of my own operating system. This repository contains the code that has come from working through those exercises and subsequently building upon them with the use of other resources (see below).
This has only been performed on a Debian-based system. Similar packages could be downloaded on other platforms but that has not been tested. Development has been performed on both Ubuntu 15.10 and elementary OS Freya.
sudo apt-get install build-essential nasm genisoimage bochs bochs-sdl
For those systems that have not been tested or are more difficult to setup, a
Vagrantfile is included for creating a vagrant box to perform testing of the
system. Simply run
vagrant up
Followed by
vagrant ssh
cd /vagrant/
To get a shell into the folder.
Loading of the operating system and incredibly low-level tasks are delegated to Assembly code. Otherwise, the rest of the kernel and other pieces of this operating system are written in Standard C.
Plans are to eventually use Go to construct the user space modules.
When completed, I hope to have a working toy operating system with a minimal implementation, i.e. an operating system built from scratch. As part of its implementation, a subset of the C standard library will be rewritten.
This operating system is intended for use on 32-bit x86 architecture.
All references read and used while performing these exercises are found in a file in the repository.
This is not a truly working or productive operating system for any reasonable development environment. This operating system is for educational purposes only.