@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@ -See +Cleese is a project to build a functioning operating system written almost +entirely in Python. The basic idea is to have a microkernel mostly based on +the Python VM and all other operating system functionality written in Python. -http://code.google.com/p/cleese/ +James Tauber and Dave Long successfully built a proof-of-concept back in 2003. -for the older, working version. +You can see that work, along with some historical information at: -This is a reboot of the project, starting essentially from scratch. + http://code.google.com/p/cleese/ -Most experimentation is happening on branches rather than master. -All that's in master now is a bootable "hello world" kernel. +This is a reboot of the project, starting largely from scratch. James Tauber +is now joined by Brian Rosner. + +To get started, see BUILDING_TOOLCHAIN and SETTING_UP_DISKS. README @@ -1,13 +1,11 @@ -Quick instructions on getting things going. I am assuming a lot is already -done before even running make. This has only been tested on OS X 10.5.X with -a custom built toolchain (binutils-2.19/gcc-4.2.4). Buyer beware at this point. +After you have built the custom toolchain for i386-elf, run -make -make grub.img -make cleese.img +(cd hello_world; make) +(cd echo; make) +make images -In VirtualBox, create an other/other VM (no harddrive) +In VirtualBox, create an other/unknown VM (no harddrive) Add both grub.img and cleese.img as floppies in Virtual Media Manager. @@ -20,3 +18,5 @@ the shell: reboot From that point on, just booting cleese.img floppy will work. + +If you rebuilt any kernels, run make update-image to update cleese.img SETTING_UP_DISKS eceeb0fe11bc71a1bb8793f0154b202a7a4c7091 James Tauber jtauber@jtauber.com http://github.com/jtauber/cleese/commit/e7030b613058351b5699b0725a596f72c0973a02 e7030b613058351b5699b0725a596f72c0973a02 2009-10-10T20:53:55-07:00 2009-10-10T20:53:55-07:00 updated README and docs 6d8874905350cc23682b057f7cea1dfe2ff15208 James Tauber jtauber@jtauber.com