Aero is a new modern, experimental, UNIX-like operating system following the monolithic kernel design. Supporting modern PC features such as long mode, 5-level paging, and SMP (multicore), to name a few.
cargo add aero
Aero
Aero is a new modern, experimental, unix-like operating system written in Rust. Aero follows the monolithic kernel design and it is inspired by the Linux Kernel. Aero supports modern PC features such as Long Mode, 5-level paging, and SMP (multicore), to name a few.
Is this a Linux distribution? No, Aero runs its own kernel that does not originate from Linux and does not share any source code or binaries with the Linux kernel.
Official Discord Server: https://discord.gg/8gwhTTZwt8
Screenshots
Running DWM, mesa-demos and Alacritty in Aero!
Features
- 64-bit higher half kernel
- 4/5 level paging
- Preemptive per-cpu scheduler
- Modern UEFI bootloader
- ACPI support (ioapic, lapic)
- Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)
- On-demand paging
Goals
- Creating a modern, safe, beautiful and fast operating system.
- Targeting modern 64-bit architectures and CPU features.
- Good source-level compatibility with Linux so we can port programs over easily.
- Making a usable OS which can run on real hardware, not just on emulators or virtual machines.
How to Build and Run Aero
Please make sure you have a Linux host system before building Aero. If you are using windows, use WSL 2.
Dependencies
Before building Aero, you need the following things installed:
rust(should be the latest nightly)nasmqemu(optional: required if you want to run it in the Qemu emulator)make
Hardware
The following are not requirements but are recommendations:
- ~15GB of free disk space (this will vary depending on the amount of packages you want to build)
- >= 8GB RAM
- >= 2 cores
- Internet access
Beefier machines will lead to much faster builds!
Getting the source code
The very first step to work on Aero is to clone the repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/Andy-Python-Programmer/aero
$ cd aero
Building Aero
make distro-image
make qemu
# To build documentation run the following command. The documentation will be outputed
# to the `target/doc` directory.
#
# Optionally you can pass `open=yes` to open the documentation in the default browser.
make doc open=yes
Contributing
Contributions are absolutely, positively welcome and encouraged! Check out CONTRIBUTING.md for the contributing guidelines for aero.
License
Aero is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations.