Thoth

A modular, x86_64 micro-kernel operating system for the future

A screenshot of Thoth running on the QEMU virtual machine

About Thoth

Thoth is a hobby OS I decided to begin work on as a break from other projects. The kernel is written in a mixture of C and AT&T assembly.

Included with the operating system is a compatible C standard library (hopefully future releases will see this library mature into a user-space library too).

Thoth aims to be POSIX-compliant (it's a long way from that yet given that it still lacks both a filesystem and a user-space) but is not intended to be a run-of-the-mill UNIX clone. POSIX compliance is an 'extra' on top of everything else.

Building

Make sure you have an "x86_64-elf" build target version of gcc and binutils installed in a system-accessible location.

Thoth uses the SCons build system. To compile the kernel, simply run scons in the root of the repository.

scons

Running

To run the compile kernel without a bootloader using QEMU, simply run the utility script provided

sh kernel-run-qemu.sh

Creating an ISO

Make sure you have the necessary grub tools installed.

sh create-iso.sh

Run the iso with:

sh iso-run-qemu.sh

Alternatively, a script exists to run both of the above commands at once.

sh test.sh

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