https://github.com/cosmosos/cosmos

Cosmos is an operating system "construction kit". Build your own OS using managed languages such as C#, VB.NET, and more!
https://github.com/cosmosos/cosmos

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Cosmos is an operating system "construction kit". Build your own OS using managed languages such as C#, VB.NET, and more!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cosmosos/cosmos
• Owner: CosmosOS
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2014-12-04T17:29:45.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-26T13:12:28.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-28T02:21:25.847Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: hacktoberfest
• Language: C#
• Homepage: https://www.goCosmos.org
• Size: 227 MB
• Stars: 2,835
• Watchers: 179
• Forks: 531
• Open Issues: 119
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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Cosmos (C# Open Source Managed Operating System) is an operating system development kit which uses .NET, alongside the custom IL2CPU compiler to convert (most) C# code into a working bare-metal OS.

Despite C# in the name, any .NET-based language can be used, which includes: VB.NET, IronPython, F# and more. Cosmos itself and its kernel routines are primarily written in C#, and thus the Cosmos name.

In a project, Cosmos can be thought of as a compiler and a sort-of standard library for a project. It gives the user access to often hard to find or otherwise difficult to understand tools.



## Features

The following is a non-exhaustive list of features that Cosmos offers:

- Low level assembly access and pointer memory control

- A basic filesystem

- Most features found in the .NET core library

- A CPU/FPU accelerated math library

- A basic graphics interface

- A basic network interface

- A basic audio interface

## Setting it up

Cosmos has an article [here](https://cosmosos.github.io/install.html) on how to do that.

## Documentation

The Cosmos documentation can be found [here](https://cosmosos.github.io/index.html).

If you still have any questions on how to use Cosmos, you can open a [discussion](https://github.com/CosmosOS/Cosmos/discussions) or you can join the [Discord server](https://discord.com/invite/kwtBwv6jhD)!

The devkit changelog can be found [here](https://cosmosos.github.io/articles/Changelog.html).

## Reporting an issue

If you think you found a bug in Cosmos, please check existing [issues](https://github.com/CosmosOS/Cosmos/issues) first before opening a new one. Do **not** open an issue if you need help with something in Cosmos that is not a bug, if you don't know how to code it's not a Cosmos issue for example.