https://github.com/brutal-org/brutal

🏢 An operating system inspired by brutalist design that combines the ideals of UNIX from the 1970s with modern technology and engineering
https://github.com/brutal-org/brutal

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🏢 An operating system inspired by brutalist design that combines the ideals of UNIX from the 1970s with modern technology and engineering

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/brutal-org/brutal
• Owner: brutal-org
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-06-03T09:20:13.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-08-22T18:35:40.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-03T07:09:28.792Z (12 days ago)
• Topics: c, hobby-os, kernel, microkernel, modern-c, operating-system, osdev
• Language: C
• Homepage: https://brutal.smnx.sh/
• Size: 13.6 MB
• Stars: 1,075
• Watchers: 29
• Forks: 43
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md
  • License: license

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README

        
![Banner](meta/shared/cover.png)






  Striking modernist shapes and bold use of modern C are the hallmarks of BRUTAL.


  Inspired by brutalist design BRUTAL combines the ideals of UNIX from the 1970s
 with modern technology and engineering.






# BRUTAL



  





  





  





  















- **BRUTAL** is an operating system built from scratch in modern C.

- **BRUTAL** is built on top of a capability based micro-kernel.

- **BRUTAL** targets x86_64, i686, RISC-V and ARM.

- **BRUTAL** exposes its features to developers through clean APIs.

- **BRUTAL** features a rich and modern C library complete with fibers, custom allocators, generic data structures, and more...

## Screenshots








BRUTAL running in QEMU 6.2



## Build Instructions

BRUTAL is pretty easy to to build from source using GNUMake, NASM and LLVM.

See [building.md](meta/building.md) for more details.

## Roadmap

Right now the main goal of brutal is to run doom.

See [roadmap.md](meta/roadmap.md) for more information on how we plan to get there and where you can contribute.

## Credits

This project takes inspirations and/or reuse code from the following projects.

See [credits.md](meta/credits.md)

## License



  



The brutal operating system and its core components are licensed under the **MIT License**.

The full text of the license can be accessed via [this link](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) and is also included in the [license](license) file of this software package.