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Cosmos Documentation

Please, note that Cosmos is a fraction of a modern operating system. As such, many features of the .NET framework may be currently unsupported.

If you need help, please look at the FAQ or join the chat on Gitter before you create an issue.

Getting Started

• FAQ
• Cosmos Projects
• Cosmos Graphic Subsystem
• GUI
• Features
• Quick look under the hood
• Intro to plugs
• What is the "devkit?"
• Note to users of older releases

Contributing

• See this page if you want to start contributing/How to fix an issue with Cosmos or start developing for us
• Use the mailing list to ask for help or advice
• Use the issue tracker to report missing plugs/problems with Cosmos etc (not your OS code)
• If the answer to your question is "It's not yet implemented", try and implement it
• See if your question is covered by any of the "How to's" below

Joining

• Live chat on Gitter.im
• Yahoo Group
• Facebook
• YouTube Channel
• Resources

Guides

• How to install Cosmos

Videos

• 2016 Nov 23 - Cosmos interview for Channel 9
• Building your first operating system in less than 60 seconds
• Cosmos debugging
• Cosmos PXE network boot with VMWare
• Debugging on real hardware
• Cosmos running a 1024x768 screen & mouse: Demo, Source
• Cosmos videos on YouTube

See It In Action

• [Projects that use Cosmos](Cosmos Projects)
• Cosmos videos on YouTube

Articles

• Advance Cursor and GUI in cosmos tutorial
• [Quick look under the hood](Quick look under the hood)
• [Intro to plugs](Intro to plugs)
• Develop Your Own Operating System in C# or VB.NET
• X86 Assembly Debugger Preview
• Making a Remote PC Slave for Debugging or Fun (old article, code deprecated)

Links

• View license
• View contributors
• Issue tracker

Helpful resources

• Resources
• Cosmos on Wikipedia
• HxD Hex Editor
• Wireshark Network Monitor
• CIL Standard
• A good intro to x86 Assembly
• OSDev.org