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Notice! We've moved the project to C++ recently, so don't expect it to be idiomatic yet. There is still a lot of work to be done, and any help is very appreciated :)
- skiftOS is a simple, handmade operating system for the x86 platform, aiming for clean and pretty APIs while keeping the spirit of UNIX.
- skiftOS features an UNIX-like terminal experience with many familiar UNIX utilities.
- skiftOS is pretty easy to build from source, just follow the build guide.
- skiftOS is capable of running on real hardware.
- skiftOS is a labor of love.
- skiftOS features a graphical user interface (GUI), with a compositor.
- skiftOS includes many applications like an Image Viewer, a Text Editor, a Terminal Emulator, etc...
- skiftOS can run DOOM
skiftOS running in QEMU 5.1
(Youtube) Systems with JT - SkiftOS (version 20.51)
(Youtube) Daimyo - Tribute to free softwares on SkiftOS.
- Manual
- Building (start here if you are new)
- Contributing
- Code of conduct
- echfs
- limine (BSD-2-Clause License)
- lodepng (zlib License)
- Material Design Icons (SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE )
- std_truetype (MIT/Public Domain)
- serenityOS AK utilities: while not directly used in skift, AK was a big inspiration in the creation of libutils.
The skift operating system and its core components are licensed under the MIT License.
See license.md