A spacebar oriented lightweight operating system for the x86 platform.
To get SpaceBarOS running in QEMU, you may first need to install some dependancies.
- GNU make
- GCC
- nasm
- QEMU
On a Debian-based Linux system (Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, ...) you can install these with:
sudo apt-get install build-essential nasm qemu
On Ubuntu 12.04, you will also need to install another package:
sudo apt-get install qemu-system-i386
Then you'll need to clone the source code and build it:
git clone git://github.com/irl/SpaceBarOS.git
cd SpaceBarOS/
make kernel.bin
To start SpaceBarOS in QEMU, then type:
make run
A JavaScript based simulator of SpaceBarOS is available for those that would like to have the experience of running it without having to set up a VM or finding a PC to run it on. You can find this here.
Under the linux/ folder, there are some files that allow for the spacebar application to be compiled under Linux. They do not currently work well at all and should be avoided. The aim is to make an ncurses wrapper for the SBOS terminal functions.
If you do intend to try it out, make sure to install libncurses-dev.
make linux
./spacebar
Thanks to Andrew McManus for helping me test out SpaceBarOS and find any problems that might affect Ubuntu users.
SpaceBarOS (C) Iain R. Learmonth <irl@sdf.org> 2011-2012.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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