WingOS

What the project is about

The project is about creating an operating system that is easy to program for, with a simple and clean API.

• It tries to experiment with new ideas and API, ditching old and legacy concepts when possible.
• WingOS is a microkernel based operating system, currently targetting x86_64. It tries to be a capability based OS, with a focus on security and stability.
• The userspace is beginning to be fleshed out, with a VFS+ext4+nvme support.
• Wingos has a working progress UI library inspired by flutter with a rasterizer and a widget system.

Milestones

• milestone 3 blog post
• milestone 2 blog post
• milestone 1 blog post

Feature list

For now the kernel is still in development, but it has a few key features:

• is 64 bit
• is SMP capable (multiple CPU support)
• has a basic scheduler with SMP support, priority, and CPU affinity support (and support cpu tree for NUMA systems)
• Nvme (NVMe) disk support (in userspace)
• Ext4 filesystem support (in userspace)
• VFS support (in userspace)

Dependencies

• The project uses the cutekit build system.
• The project uses limine as a bootloader.

Roadmap (OS)

• Boot
• x86 basic support (interrupt, paging, …)
• SMP support (apic, …)
• Scheduler (with SMP support, priority, and cpu affinity support)
• Loading user space app
• User space (ring 3)
• Syscalls
• Spaces and handles
• Userspace objects (Virtual and Physical Memory, IPC, Task…)
• Services and IPC (inter process communication)
• PCI support (scan, devices, …) (in userspace)
• Hello File! (NVME + GPT + Ext4 + VFS)
• Blocking IPC
• Graphics support (VESA, framebuffer, …)
• Input support (keyboard, mouse, …)
  • Interrupt handling in userspace
• Port DOOM
• Signals
• basic POSIX server
• Create a shell
• Above and beyond

Building the project

For now I don’t have a complete dependency list, but you will need:

• cutekit
• Clang cross compiler for x86_64
• Everything needed to build a cross compiler
• git, wget, gptfdisk, mkfs.fat (dosfstools), qemu

Run bash meta/build/make_cross_compiler.sh to build the Wingos specific version of gcc.

Now do ck s to start the build and run.

Do ck p to build ports (now no ports are buildable, do a git clone recursive to get all ports).

Codeberg

The project is synced to codeberg (github <-> codeberg), you can either use github or codeberg. Note that in the future the project aims to be fully ported to codeberg.

Made by human

WingOS is made by Humans, and not by a generative AI.

More information can be linked to the by-human repository.