MOROS 0.11.0

[vinc]

MOROS is a text-based hobby operating system targeting computers with a x86-64 architecture and a BIOS. It draws inspiration from Unix and DOS to provide a simple and efficient environment for computing and communication from the command line.

What's new in MOROS 0.11.0?

• Fixed binary loading
• Fixed block bitmap area calculation
• Added a VGA graphics mode
• Added device files to configure the network stack
• Added device files to configure the VGA driver
• Added device files to configure the sound driver
• Added a package manager pkg
• Added an image viewer render
• Added a search mode to the text editor and the text viewer
• Added scrollback buffer support to the shell
• Added a diff command
• Added more syscalls and userspace programs
• Refactored the kernel into modules
• Replaced the base64 command with encode and decode
• Replaced the fetch command by get

Read the full list of changes on the CHANGELOG

How to run MOROS?

The binary can be booted from USB on a computer with a BIOS or from a virtual machine with Bochs, QEMU, or VirtualBox. Here's a quick way to do it with QEMU:

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 32 -cpu max -nic model=e1000 -soundhw pcspk -hda moros-v0.11.0.bin

Read more detailed instructions in the README

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This discussion was created from the release MOROS 0.11.0.