About

skiftOS is a hobby operating system built for learning and for fun targeting the x86 platform. It features a kernel named hjert, a graphical user interface with a compositing window manager, and familiar UNIX utilities.

Features

Pre-emptive multitasking
I/O redirection
IPC sockets
Low level utility and system library (libsystem)
2D and 3D graphic library (libgraphic)
Support for fileformats like PNG & ZIP through custom encoders & decoders(libfile, libcompression)
Graphical user interface library (libwidget)
A compositing window manager (Compositor)
Posix and libc compatibility layer library (libcompat)
A terminal emulator which support unicode and vt100 escape sequence (Terminal)

Community

Discord ↗ Reddit ↗ GitHub ↗ #skiftOS on Twitter ↗

Latest Release

skiftOS

All Releases ↗ Source Code ↗

Running on QEMU

QEMU is the prefered platform for testing the operating system. Running GRUB base images required this command:

qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom bootdisk-grub-x86_32.img -rtc base=localtime,clock=vm -m 256M -enable-kvm -serial stdio -display sdl

Limine base images required another command:

qemu-system-x86_64 -hdd bootdisk-limine-x86_32.img -m 256M -enable-kvm -serial stdio -display sdl

Running on Virtual Box

Running skiftOS in Virtual Box required:

Other/Unknown operating system type
At least 128MiB of ram
No hard drive needed
With hardware acceleration

Running on Real Hardware

Running skiftOS real hardware required:

Working bios PS/2 emulation.
At least 256mb of ram (512mb recommended)

License

The skift operating system and its core components are licensed under the MIT License.