An unfinished Operating System written in x86 ASM and C.
Captain:
- Synonym of Chief
- Responsible of a ship good management
OS:
- Acronym of Operating System
KaptainOS is an operating system, a program responsible of a computer good management.
An OS must:
- host programs
- bring an abstraction layer between software and hardware
- be able to differentiate users
- maintain a stable and secure environment for the program it hosts
KaptainOS, as of now, can only fulfil the first two requirements.
- Bootloader
- Program in 32 bits mode
- Being able to program in C
- Generic IO / Bus driver
- Text-mode VGA driver
- Interrupts management
- Keyboard driver
- RAM management
- Full blown VGA driver
- PCI driver
- Network card driver
- Ethernet driver
- Multitasking (easy to do)
- Users management
- Securing the system
KaptainOS – Binaries and tools
├── boot
│ Bootloader's code
├── kernel - kernel and RAM stuff
│ └── interrupts
│ Interrupts management
├── utils
│ bonus code like strings & mset
├── services - drivers and relationship with peripherals
│ ├── hardware
│ │ drivers that only talk to the hardware
│ ├── drivers
│ │ drivers that process data taken from the hardware
│ └── software
│ drivers that process data from other programs
└── programs
User programs
Follow these steps to be able to build KapOS:
- Boot a computer connected to the internet & with Debian Linux installed
- Install make:
sudo apt-get install build-essential - cd to the root folder of this project
- Install the toolset:
sudo make install_build_tools
Thou are now ready to modify, compile and run KaptainOS.
To open all C files and headers in 2 separate windows:
make edit
To compile the OS and boot it into the Qemu emulator:
make
To only compile the OS:
make compile
To test KapOS on real hardware:
- Warning : the following will erase the content your USB drive.
- Once it is compiled, upload it on a USB drive with the win_dd.bat file (run as admin in windows) in the root of the project.
- Boot the computer from the USB drive from the BIOS options.
There are only two included programs:
- a console - type
helpto peek at its features - a snake game
Feel free to explore their code, it's relatively simple.
Doc is located in services/doc.txt