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SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V

SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V

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  • thegeomaster
    What an astounding achievement. In 6 years, this person has written not only a very well-designed microkernel, but a build system, UEFI bootloader, graphical shell, UI framework, and a browser engine.The story of 10x developers among us is not a myth... if anything, it's understated.
  • monax
    Didn’t expect to see my project on the main page today ‘^^ Right now the build is broken, so you can’t test the full OS, but you can run individual apps with:```bash ./skift.sh run --release <app-name> ```on Linux or macOS.To see all available apps:```bash ls ./src/apps ```
  • hu3
    This is the kind of project that allows you to have a 2 line CV:contact: your e-mailskills: project websiteand you'd get hired in a ton of places.
  • FerkiHN
    Wow, you did it yourself?! This is just wow, as a C/C++ developer I know how to create an OS, but at most I could come up with an idea, but writing all this myself, I have no words.
  • j1000
    How devs can create something like this with normal time constrains? I couldn't squeeze this kind of project having day to day 9 to 5 job as dev.
  • rubymamis
    The code is really well written - very understandable and modern, kudos on that!I'm curious, how come the app I just compiled works on macOS?
  • spuz
    What ideas do you employ around security? Do apps have full access to memory? To hardware? Is there a permissions system? Sorry I'm not that familiar with how microkernels work.
  • pkphilip
    This looks really cool! congratulations to the person who made this! Is there a video demo of this somewhere?I am amazed that you also managed to write a browser engine!
  • anta40
    Looks awesome. Consider it bookmarked.I'm on macOS, and still no luck building the code. But anything which doesn't involve building a custom GCC easily gets my vote :)
  • Panzerschrek
    What else does it have rather than beautiful UI? Network support? Sound? What file systems does it support? What about multiple users? What about applications isolation?It would be nice to have such information displayed somewhere on the site.
  • the__alchemist
    Thank you! We need more GPOS options. We have been entrenched in the main 3. I think there's lots of room for making something better. [misaligned incentives?]
  • nerflad
    I find every project of this nature so so beautiful and incredible. Congrats.
  • reactordev
    Obviously not her first rodeo...I dove deep into the code base. Found lib-sdl. Found impl-efi. Found co_return and co_await's. Found try's. Found composable classes. Found my codebase to be a mess compared to the elegance that is this. We are not worthy...The modules... :chefs-kiss:
  • tampueroc
    Slightly related and coming from ignorance here, but what is the general intuition for the pros and cons of a microkernel approach in OS development?
  • boogerlad
    This is your chance! As a clean slate design, you can abandon the concept of a hierarchal file system and replace it with rdbms.
  • brodo
    Very impressive! Do you support GPUs or is the UI completely CPU rendered? It looks really beautiful.
  • anon
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  • drob518
    Looks beautiful.
  • kirito1337
    What a great project.
  • akash100x
    so cool! building from past 6 years (impressive)
  • hisamafahri
    dang, so cool
  • Dementor430
    looks like a cool project
  • binocry
    damn this is really good. I hope the register folk sees this.
  • kencut801
    [flagged]
  • kookamamie
    Looks great. I did pick up pretty strong NIH vibes, though. As an example, would CMake or Meson not work as a build system?