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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.
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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.

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# 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.



![workflow](https://github.com/Andy-Python-Programmer/aero/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg)

[![lines_of_code](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://andypythonappdevelop.npkn.net/f0d517/)](https://github.com/Andy-Python-Programmer/aero)

[![discord](https://img.shields.io/discord/828564770063122432)](https://discord.gg/8gwhTTZwt8)



**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**: 



# 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**)

- `nasm`

- `qemu` (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:

```shell

$ git clone https://github.com/Andy-Python-Programmer/aero

$ cd aero

```



## Building Aero



```shell

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](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](LICENSE) file for license rights and limitations.