Index

Index

The content-oriented catalog of this wiki: every page, one line each, organized by category. This is the machine-facing counterpart to _Sidebar (navigation) and Home (landing page) — when answering a question, check here first to find the right page, then drill in. Updated on every ingest; see Wiki-Conventions for the maintenance rules.

Raw source: the nyx-os repository (kernel/, user/, AGENTS.md, git history) — see Wiki-Conventions#The three layers. Pages: 40 · Lines: ~9600 · Tracking: v5.9.180

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This wiki's root is also an Obsidian vault — open this folder directly in Obsidian for graph view, backlinks, and outgoing links over these same files. See Obsidian vault in Wiki-Conventions.

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Orientation

Page	Lines	Summary
Home	106	Landing page — at-a-glance table, links into every section, current release
FAQ	181	Answers to recurring questions, grouped by topic
Glossary	188	~70 terms used across the wiki and the source, NyxOS-specific ones marked
Troubleshooting	154	Symptom → cause → fix index across every subsystem

Getting started

Page	Lines	Summary
Building	210	Toolchain, build.ps1/run.ps1, the full QEMU invocation, stale-build traps
Debugging	265	Serial log, interrupt tracing, a real annotated boot transcript, self-test suite

Kernel

Page	Lines	Summary
Architecture	170	Layer map, source layout by subsystem, address-space diagram, key constants
[[Boot-Process	Boot Process]]	155
[[Memory-Management	Memory Management]]	125
[[Process-Management	Process Management]]	211
SMP	131	AP bringup, per-CPU state, locking, TLB shootdown
Syscalls	180	Calling convention, register map, boundary hardening (see [[Syscall-Reference
Drivers	107	One section per device driver, interrupt map
Security	98	Privilege boundaries, what is and is not defended

Storage and network

Page	Lines	Summary
Filesystem	131	VFS over ramdisk/EXT2//proc//dev, mount mechanics
[[Networking-Stack	Networking Stack]]	187
[[Cryptography-and-TLS	Cryptography and TLS]]	198

Graphics and applications

Page	Lines	Summary
[[GUI-Subsystem	GUI Subsystem]]	151
[[Desktop-Applications	Desktop Applications]]	132
[[Selene-Browser	Selene Browser]]	116
[[Image-Decoders	Image Decoders]]	172

Userspace

Page	Lines	Summary
Userspace	207	ELF loader, crt0, shared libc, dynamic loading, every program
Shell	187	The two shells compared, builtins by category, userspace shell grammar

HOWTO — procedures

Page	Lines	Summary
[[HOWTO-Add-a-system-call	HOWTO Add a system call]]	244
[[HOWTO-Write-a-userspace-program	HOWTO Write a userspace program]]	290
[[HOWTO-Add-a-shell-command	HOWTO Add a shell command]]	199
[[HOWTO-Add-a-GUI-application	HOWTO Add a GUI application]]	293

Reference — exhaustive, field-by-field

Page	Lines	Summary
[[Syscall-Reference	Syscall Reference]]	1012
[[Command-Reference	Command Reference]]	396
[[Hardware-Reference	Hardware Reference]]	496
[[Format-Reference	Format Reference]]	907
[[Kernel-Data-Structures	Kernel Data Structures]]	313
[[Source-Tree-Reference	Source Tree Reference]]	345

Project

Page	Lines	Summary
Contributing	193	Workflow, coding standards, verification matrix, doc-sync rule
[[Wiki-Conventions	Wiki Conventions]]	133
[[Version-History	Version History]]	434
Log	—	Chronological record of wiki maintenance — see [[Wiki-Conventions#Index.md and Log.md

See also

• Wiki-Conventions — how this index is maintained, and the ingest/query/lint workflow it supports
• Log — when each page was last touched and why
• Home — the human-facing landing page

External resources

• GitHub Wiki linking — how [[Page Name]] and [[Page#Section]] resolve — GitHub Docs