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skiftOS

• skiftOS is an operating system built from scratch in modern C++.
• skiftOS is featuring a reactive UI library and has a strong emphasis on user experience.
• skiftOS exposes its features to developers through clean APIs.
• skiftOS includes many applications like an Image Viewer, a Text Editor, a Terminal Emulator, etc...
• skiftOS features an UNIX-like terminal experience with many familiar UNIX utilities.
• skiftOS is also pretty easy to build from source, just follow the build guide.
• skiftOS is capable of running on real hardware.

Screenshots

skiftOS running in QEMU 5.1

Links

• Manual
• Building (start here if you are new)
• Contributing
• Code of conduct
• Running on Virtual Box (click here to experience skiftOS)

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Projects

• echfs
• limine (BSD-2-Clause License)
• Material Design Icons (SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE )
• serenityOS AK utilities: while not directly used in skift, AK was a big inspiration in the creation of libutils.

License

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

The full text of the license can be accessed via this link and is also included in the license.md file of this software package.