Dennix is a unix-like hobbyist operating system for x86 and x86_64 that has been in development by a single developer since 2016. Exciting features include:
- A monolithic kernel written in C++
- A standard C library that is sufficiently complete to allow running most ports with no substantial modifications
- A reasonably complete shell
- Common command line utilities
- A graphical user interface
- Harddisk drivers for ATA and AHCI
- An ext2 file system driver
- A collection of ports of third-party software
To build Dennix you will first need to install a cross toolchain for Dennix.
The command make install-toolchain will download, build and install the
toolchain. The installation script can be configured using environment
variables. You can use the command ./build-aux/install-toolchain.sh --help
to get information about these environment variables.
You will probably want to set $PREFIX to a path where you want the toolchain
to be installed. After the toolchain has been installed you need to add
$PREFIX/bin to your $PATH. Finally you can run make to build a bootable
cdrom image.
Patches and scripts for installing third-party ports are available at
https://github.com/dennis95/dennix-ports. If you put the contents of that
repository into a subdirectory named ports all third-party ports will be
downloaded, built, and installed automatically during the build. For releases a
ports tarball is available that includes all third-party source code and that
does not need to download any additional files.
Dennix is free software and is licensed under the terms of the ISC license. The
full license terms can be found in the LICENSE file. The math library (libm)
code was adopted from musl and is licensed under the MIT license and other
permissive licenses compatible to the ISC license. See the libm/COPYRIGHT
file for details.
All third-party ports are released under their own licenses. The full license
text for every port is available in the /share/licenses directory of the
release image.
