This is Lyos http://lyos.googlecode.com

WHAT IS LYOS

Lyos is an open source microkernel multitasking operating system, it runs on 32-bit x86-based PCs, it supports IDE harddisk and floppy disk.

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

FEATURES

Lyos has many standard features:

• Microkernel

  • Kernel only handles message passing, interrupts and task scheduling, other things like reading/writing files, memory managing and device operations are handled by servers.

• Multitasking

• TTYs

  • Multi-TTY support

• Interprocess Communication

• Device drivers

  • Hard disk drive support
  • Ramdisk support
  • Floppy(under development)

• Virtual file system

  • Ext2 filesystem support(under development)

• Memory management

COMPILATION AND INSTALLATION

1. Download the source

   • You can get the source with git: git clone git://github.com/Jimx-/lyos.git lyos
   • If you download the bzip file, unpack it: tar -jxvf lyos-0.3.X.tar.bz2

2. Setup toolchain

   • Under the lyos' root directory, run: ./scripts/setup-toolchain.sh

3. Compile Lyos

   • Remove all the object files: make mrproper
   • Configure Lyos: make config or make menuconfig
   • Build the kernel: make

4. Create disk image

   • Create disk image: make setup-disk

5. Run Lyos

   • Get Bochs Emulator at http://bochs.sourceforge.net
   • Run bochs: bochs
   • If you want to use qemu instead, run: make kvm