This project is licensed under GPLv3.
- 64-bit operating system with SMP (i.e., multicore) and ACPI support.
- Support for many modern hardware devices such as USB XHCI controllers.
- Networking support.
- POSIX and Linux API compatibility.
- Support for Linux-style special files (epoll, signalfd, timerfd, ...) and pseudo file systems (
/sys,/proc, ...).
Programs supported on aether-os include Weston (the Wayland reference compositor), Busybox, Coreutils, Bash, nano, vim and others.
General USB (XHCI)
Graphics virtio GPU, nvidia-open
Input USB human interface devices, PS/2 keyboard and mouse
Storage USB mass storage devices, NVMe, AHCI, virtio block
Network E1000, virtio network
Running make prepare and make run will build the kernel and a bootable image and a rootfs image, and then run it using qemu (if installed).