Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language.

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• Keeping the code as simple and easy to understand as possible, while not sacrificing performance and prioritising code correctness.
• Making a usable OS which can run on real hardware, not just on emulators or virtual machines.
• Targeting modern 64-bit architectures, CPU features, and multi-core computing.
• Maintaining good source-level compatibility with Linux to allow to easily port programs over.
• Exploring V capabilities in bare metal programming and improving the compiler in response to the uncommon needs of bare metal programming.
• Having fun.

Note: Vinix is still pre-alpha software not meant for daily or production usage!

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You can grab a pre-built nightly Vinix image at https://github.com/vlang/vinix/releases

Make sure to boot the ISO with enough memory (8+GiB) as, for now, Vinix loads its entire root filesystem in a ramdisk in order to be able to more easily boot on real hardware.

• mlibc
• bash
• gcc/g++
• V
• nano
• storage drivers
• ext2
• X.org
• Networking
• Wayland
• Hypervisor
• X window manager
• V-UI
• Intel HD graphics driver (Linux port)

The following is a distro-agnostic list of packages needed to build Vinix.

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GNU make, diffutils, curl, git, bsdtar, rsync, xorriso, and qemu to test it.

sudo apt install -y make diffutils curl git libarchive-tools rsync xorriso qemu-system-x86

sudo pacman -S --needed make diffutils curl git libarchive rsync xorriso qemu

sudo yum install -y make diffutils curl git bsdtar rsync xorriso qemu

To build the distro, which includes the cross toolchain necessary to build kernel and ports, as well as the kernel itself, run:

make distro-base # Build the base distribution.
make all         # Make filesystem and ISO.

This will build a minimal distro image. The make distro-full target is also avaliable to build the full distro; this step will take a while.

In Linux, if KVM is available, run with

make run-kvm

In macOS, if hvf is available, run with

make run-hvf

To run without any acceleration, run with

make run