Aellix

An operating system written in Julia. (Technically it's just the userland, the kernel is Linux.)

Building

Building this requires my own "make" implementation, which is written in rust. You can install it like so:

cargo install --git https://github.com/mkualquiera/mk.git

Do make sure your cargo bin directory is in your PATH.

You must also have the grub-mkrescue command, which comes with grub2. Then, you can build the iso like so

mk

This will pull in the Linux kernel, the glibc source code, the julia source code, and build it all. It will then create a directory that represents the root of the iso, and copy the built files into it, as well as the workspace directory, which contains all of the Julia things. Finally, it will create an iso image from that directory.

You can then run it using

mk run

Hacking

Feel free to mess with all the things in the workspace directory. Some particularly interesting things are:

• workspace/etc/init.d: Any Julia files you put here will be run on startup.

• workspace/lib: Contains system libraries written in Julia. This includes the shell (Aell) as well as the text editor (Acorn) and other things.

• workspace/boot/grub.cfg: Contains the grub configuration. You can customize the colors and the kernel command line here.