KnutOS

An x86_64 hobbyist OS made for FUN and LEARNING! It is written in C and Assembly and features a monolithic kernel.

Screenshots

⤷ Silent boot

⤷ Verbose boot

⤷ Shell

⤷ Interrupt screen

⤷ Local terminal showing serial communication

Features

• Limine bootloader
• Stivale2 boot protocol
• GDT
• TSS
• IDT & ISR's
• Physical memory manager -> Bitmap based
• Virtual memory manager -> 4- & 5-level paging
• Slab allocator
• ACPI table parsing
• Local APIC
• Serial communication
• Basic framebuffer
• Basic keyboard driver with a small shell
• Basic kernel libraries

Future Features

• ACPI Parser (custom or ACPICA)
• C standard library port
• ELF loader
• IPC support
• SMP
• Double buffering
• Compositor
• GUI library

Dependencies

NOTE: Depending on your Linux Distribution the package names might be different (supposing you are using Linux)

• x86_64-elf-binutils
• x86_64-elf-gcc
• nasm-git
• make
• xorriso
• qemu

Installation

• Install the dependencies
• Get the repository
  • git clone https://github.com/Tix3Dev/KnutOS --recursive
  • cd KnutOS
• Build it
  • make all
• Run it
  • make run

Contributing

For those interested in contributing, please refer to the contributing guidelines.