Thoth

An operating system inspired by the Unix philosophy and design.

Objectives

The project has the following objectives...

• To create a lightweight multi-platform monolithic kernel
• To create a user-space environment for guest programs
• To create a user-space interface to the OS inspired by Unix/POSIX
• To create a robust set of drivers for commonly used hardware

Current features

• x86_64 and i686 (i386) versions
• Kernel-space VGA driver
• Initial general-purpose C utility library

Why?

This operating system is not designed for real-world use. It exists only as a way through which I may become more familiar with OS development.

Getting a copy

Building

Thoth uses the 'tup' build system. Make sure you install tup before attempting to build the project.

Navigate to the top-level directory of Thoth and run the following command:

./setup.sh

NOTE: If you wish to build for a target architecture other than x86_64, edit the file build-default/tup.config at this point

Build Thoth by running the following command:

tup build-default

Running

Run thoth using QEMU (make sure you have QEMU installed) with the following command:

sh qemu.sh

Credits

• A lot of people on IRC, most notably 'sortie' on #osdev (irc.freenode.net)