https://github.com/lutoma/xelix

💻⚙ Xelix is a hobby Unix-like kernel with GNU userland for x86
https://github.com/lutoma/xelix

c kernel osdev unix x86

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💻⚙ Xelix is a hobby Unix-like kernel with GNU userland for x86

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lutoma/xelix
• Owner: lutoma
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2011-10-13T18:55:00.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-12T17:06:28.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-15T05:58:06.085Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: c, kernel, osdev, unix, x86
• Language: C
• Homepage: https://xelix.org
• Size: 21.9 MB
• Stars: 64
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 36
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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# Xelix kernel

Xelix is a hobby POSIX kernel and operating system for x86. It has a largely GNU-based userland and can run many common \*nix programs.

Releases, build instructions and code documentation can be found at https://xelix.org (or in the `docs` folder).

## Features

* Preemptive multitasking with privilege and memory separation

* POSIX process API with fork/execve/wait and signal handling

* VFS with support for dynamic mount points, poll, pipes, and in-memory file trees

* Read/write ext2 implementation, IDE and virtio-block drivers

* BSD socket API for TCP/IP support using the [PicoTCP network stack](https://github.com/tass-belgium/picotcp)

* Terminal framework with support for multiple TTYs, pseudo terminals & ECMA48 escape sequences