MOROS is a text-based hobby operating system targeting computers with a x86-64 architecture and a BIOS. It draws inspiration from Unix and DOS to provide a simple and efficient environment for computing and communication from the command line.
What's new in MOROS 0.11.0?
- Fixed binary loading
- Fixed block bitmap area calculation
- Added a VGA graphics mode
- Added device files to configure the network stack
- Added device files to configure the VGA driver
- Added device files to configure the sound driver
- Added a package manager
pkg
- Added an image viewer
render
- Added a search mode to the text editor and the text viewer
- Added scrollback buffer support to the shell
- Added a
diff
command - Added more syscalls and userspace programs
- Refactored the kernel into modules
- Replaced the
base64
command withencode
anddecode
- Replaced the
fetch
command byget
Read the full list of changes on the CHANGELOG
How to run MOROS?
The binary can be booted from USB on a computer with a BIOS or from a virtual machine with Bochs, QEMU, or VirtualBox. Here's a quick way to do it with QEMU:
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 32 -cpu max -nic model=e1000 -soundhw pcspk -hda moros-v0.11.0.bin
Read more detailed instructions in the README