POSIX compliant Operating System
The moment I have been avoiding for way too long. Finally we have a very very modest implementation of POSIX mmap, currently we only support MAP_FIXED and only VESA fbdev implements mmap, but it’s a good start. As a demonstration of it, fbterm now uses mmap instead of I/O functions,...
About a month ago, I posted about using Nuklear GUI library in AquilaOS. We also have a video of NuklearUI with custom font, images and wallpaper. I have been trying to wrap my head around the code, understanding exactly how Nuklear works and how to convert it to client/server model...
I won’t lie, memory management is the most frustrating thing in OS design for me. It takes the most time and debugging it is nevertheless exhausting. I have, however, redesigned it to be more generic than before and relax much more arch. dependent code. The New Design Physical Memory Management...
I have been looking into various options of GUI/Windowing systems to implement in AquilaOS and here is what I found so far X While X is the defacto when it comes to GUI, it is extremely heavy, mostly optimized for Linux and requires too much dependencies. Wayland Wayland is a...
This is my first post, how exciting!