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Welcome to the 0.5.0 Developer Preview of ravynOS! As usual, this is an unstable pre-release of upcoming stuff intended for people helping build the system. It is not complete. It contains bugs - sometimes serious ones - including application and desktop crashes and even kernel panics. You have been warned.
This release runs (as usual) on amd64 - aka x86_64. Much progress has been made on the ARM64 port and we hope to have an ISO available soon for that platform as well.
This release updates the FreeBSD base to 15-CURRENT and updates all third-party dependencies to their current versions as well. The build no longer relies on FreeBSD Ports and integrates all necessary code into the system repo. Cruft has been cleaned up, and the entire build runs against the source tree rather than the host system. This means ravynOS can now be built on vanilla FreeBSD 15 (and probably) 14 systems for easier development. However, executables will need to run on ravynOS. The new simplified iso build process (below) can help with this.
The turbo
editor is now included in the base for those who don't vim
right away.
The ability to easily link objects in subdirs has been added to the Frameworks makefiles (rvn.framework.mk). This simplifies bundling code from subdirs into a single library and lets us build (for example) an OpenGL.framework containing a libOpenGL.so that includes not only the Apple APIs for GL but mesa and underlying dependencies that actually implement them. This functions more like a real Framework and simplifies linking of apps. CoreText, OpenGL, AppKit, Onyx2D have all been improved this way.
It's this easy. You can control the object file extension using LINK_EXT.${subdir}= .ext
and exclude specific objects per directory with LINK_EXCLUDE.${subdir}= file.o file2.o
. Example here.
ravynOS no longer has a package repository or uses the pkg
command. This command is once again available for installing and managing FreeBSD packages from upstream repos. These packages will normally install into /usr/local
and should not conflict with or break the base system, but do be careful. We have not finished locking in library run paths so installing libraries in /usr/local and having them found first may cause issues. In such a case, remove the packages.
A new build tool [tools/ravynOS/build.sh](https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos/blob/main/tools/ravynOS/build.sh)
makes the whole process much easier and consistent, including creation of a bootable ISO live image with your changes. Instructions can be found on the wiki.
A simple Dock has been added with a few default icons. It is very minimal so far. The indicator of a running app (dot under the icon) works, and it manages the desktop wallpaper as on macOS. Clicking an icon will launch it if it is not running. Manage the Dock by editing its plist file in ~/Library/Preferences
.
Partial support for NSStatusItem has been added. A NSStatusItem created by a Cocoa app will transparently appear in the Menu Extras area of the global bar, using its supplied icon. The item will disappear if the process exits. Context menus do not work yet.
/bin/install.sh
have been fixed and it works again.zsh
has been moved to /bin
from /usr/bin
. bash
remains available in /bin
as well.neofetch
and plutil
have been added.cmake
, gmake
and all GNU binutils (prefixed with 'g'), and nasm
were added.dyld
has been temporarily removed until the real one can be builtpci.ids
v2.2 was added to /etclaunchd
's handling of user-specified environment variables was made compliant with macOS MontereySee open issues for the full list.
Please see the wiki for system requirements, install instructions and where to find things.
Ask questions or give feedback in the Discussions area. Please report any bugs to the Issues tracker. Your help in fixing said bugs would be appreciated too! Thanks!
Download from GitHub or your closest mirror:
NomadLogic - US West | Clarkson - US East | HS Fulda - Germany | NTNU - Norway | dotSrc - Denmark
Torrents are also available courtesy of FOSSTorrents
Unstable "nightly" builds are also available for developer testing:
Download from NomadLogic - US West | Clarkson - US East | HS Fulda - Germany | NTNU - Norway | dotSrc - Denmark
Torrents of the snapshot builds are available too! Thanks to @RangerRick for setting these up.
As usual, thank you to our community of sponsors, designers, developers, testers, and users, and mirror hosts for supporting the project. Special thanks to everyone who didn't give up on the project while my life was crazy. This one is for you.
Published by mszoek over 2 years ago
Welcome to the 0.4.0pre4 Developer Preview of ravynOS as we continue working towards release 0.4! As usual, this is an unstable pre-release of upcoming stuff intended for people helping build the system. It is not complete. It contains bugs - sometimes serious ones - including application and desktop crashes and kernel panics. You have been warned.
This snapshot release includes the start of a GUI based on Cocoa and Mach. It aims to be Mac compatible. The GUI is very rudimentary so far - please be patient! More is on the way.
Detailed release notes below!
TLDR: This release does stuff. More stuff than the previous one, but not by much, and a lot less than we want it to do eventually.
A major bug in mach_msg memory allocation was fixed, massively improving the kernel's stability. There may still be occasional freezes or panics, mainly in the drm-kmod
(DRM/KMS video) drivers or in the latest Intel wifi (iwlwifi) driver.
Launchd
now starts the Apple syslog (asld
) and auditd
services which had been previously disabled for stability issues. The command-line aslutil
can be used to examine ASL logs.
The Tanuki series releases used a pretty traditional X11/KDE desktop environment that was shoehorned into looking and behaving like the Mac desktop. However, this can only go so far due to the very different architecture and design of the two systems. 0.4.0pre3 had the very first bits of a new UI built ground-up to be what we need. This release adds some vital plumbing and the first version of SystemUIServer.
WindowServer should start automatically if it detects a supported GPU (Intel HD and Iris, AMD or Radeon - we are still working towards virtual machine support with qxl and vmwgfx drivers). If successful, a black and white "ravynOS" wallpaper should appear on all screens and a login window should appear on one of them. Enter "liveuser" as the user name, leave password blank, and click the Login
button. If you get it wrong, there is no feedback: just try again. A better login window is in development but we needed something quickly to make the Live ISO work :)
After login, the display should change to a black screen with a menu bar at the top of one screen. The menu bar has a clock and the Ravyn menu, with typical options like About this computer
, Recent items
, Sleep
and Restart
. Most of these work - try Sleep, Restart, and Shut Down in particular and please report if they work for your hardware.
When a Cocoa app (e.g. /Applications/Utilities/Install ravynOS.app
) is launched, its menus appear in the global bar and can be used as you would expect. Switching applications will switch the active menus as well. Exiting an application removes its menus from the bar. Remaining work items are tracked here. Also beware of known issues #288 and #280 in particular.
Since the desktop has no way yet to launch apps, you can press <Logo>-<Enter>
(Logo
being your Windows or Command key or its equivalent) to launch a terminal window. Press <Alt>-<Space>
while focused for a window menu, then enable Decorations to allow moving or resizing the window. The shell will be running as nobody
, so use su - liveuser
to get to your regular account. This is not a Cocoa app and has no menus; it will go away once we have something better.
open
options (e.g. redirecting I/O, setting env vars, wait for exit) are not yet implemented on the launchd
version of LaunchServicesPlease see the wiki for system requirements, install instructions and where to find things.
Ask questions or give feedback in the Discussions area. Please report any bugs to the Issues tracker. Your help in fixing said bugs would be appreciated too! Thanks!
Download 0.4.0pre4 from NomadLogic - US West or your closest mirror:
US Central | US East | US East 2 | Norway | Denmark
Torrents are also available courtesy of FOSSTorrents
Unstable "nightly" builds are also available for developer testing:
Download from US West | US Central | US East | US East 2 | Norway | Denmark
Torrents of the snapshot builds are available too! Thanks to @RangerRick for setting these up.
As usual, thank you to our community of sponsors, designers, developers, testers, and users, and mirror hosts for supporting the project.
Published by mszoek over 2 years ago
Welcome to the 0.4.0pre3 Developer Preview of ravynOS (formerly airyxOS)! As usual, this is an unstable pre-release of upcoming stuff intended for people helping build the system. It is not complete. It contains bugs - sometimes serious ones. It might spontaneously panic & reboot, melt your computer, eat your cat, or accelerate the heat death of the universe. You have been warned.
Also please note that the ISO currently does not boot into a GUI. You will see the boot messages and then it will appear to freeze. Switch to tty1 (Alt+F2 usually) for a login prompt. The login is liveuser
with no password.
Detailed release notes below!
TLDR: This release does stuff. More stuff than the previous one, but not by much, and a lot less than we want it to do eventually.
The project's name, brand, associated images and assets have been changed.
The kernel and base system has been rebased onto the CURRENT (14.0) branch of FreeBSD. The extra packages built from ports remain on the 2022Q1 branch for now. We expect the move to CURRENT to improve hardware support, especially in the DRM/KMS video drivers. Please expect some instability as we work out the bugs from this major update.
There is now kernel support for Mach ports, port rights, messages, IPC including OOL descriptors, and system calls. This is provided by a kernel module, mach.ko
, which is (and must be) loaded at boot time by loader.conf
. Never remove this; it will break your system. (Why is it a module then? Due to technical limitations that we need to solve.)
The userspace parts are provided by headers in /usr/include/mach
and /usr/include/sys/mach
, libmach
, and extensions to libc
.
The mig
compiler is provided to compile .def
files into Mach IPC/RPC code.
launchd
and LaunchAgentsApple's launchd
is now the system init
process (pid 1). It starts a few essential services (asld
- syslog, notifyd
, devd
and auditd
) as LaunchDaemons then passes control to the standard rc
scripts to start the rest of the system. More services can be translated into LaunchDaemons over time. (asld
and auditd
are temporarily disabled for stability concerns.)
-+= 00001 root /sbin/launchd
|--= 00025 root /sbin/devd -d
|--= 00026 root /usr/sbin/asld -d
|--= 00027 root /usr/sbin/auditd -l
|--= 00030 root /usr/sbin/notifyd -d
LaunchDaemons are started from their descriptions in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons
or /Library/LaunchDaemons
as on macOS, but ours are currently defined in JSON instead of XML. (Because that's how iX Systems did their launchctl
.) Adding XML plist support here is on the task list.
A per-user launchd
instance is started to manage user LaunchAgents (defined in ~/Library/LaunchAgents
) and LaunchDaemons (defined in ~/Library/LaunchDaemons
).
You can now write (or build) software that needs Grand Central Dispatch, also known as libdispatch or Dispatch. Dispatch provides thread pools and concurrency. It can be used directly, but more importantly, opens the door to adding Dispatch support in Foundation. Note that neither Cocoa or CoreFoundation have been extended yet to support Dispatch.
A libxpc
has also been added, courtesy of work done by iX Systems. XPC is "a lightweight mechanism for basic interprocess communication" built on top of Mach. XPC is used by launchd
among other things and enables the addition of more compatibility stuff in Foundation. Note that Cocoa and CoreFoundation have not been extended yet to support XPC.
LLVM and Clang have been upgraded to 13.0.0.
ravynOS clang version 13.0.0 ([email protected]:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-13.0.0-0-gd7b669b3a303)
Target: x86_64-ravynos-freebsd14.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin
Clang now links libobjc
automatically for any input files detected as Objective-C (*.m
) or Objective-C++ (*.mm
). This only works if compilation and linking are one step. If linking is a separate step, you still need to specify -lobjc
.
Clang now defines the preprocessor symbol __MACH__
. The symbol __AIRYX__
is no longer defined by the compiler; instead it defines __RAVYNOS__
. You may notice that software tries to build in its Mac configuration due to the presence of __MACH__
.
Several essential header files from Darwin and Apple opensource have been added to /usr/include
.
LaunchServices now uses the "canonical" path of /var/db/launchd/com.apple.launchd.per-user.$UID
for its database. If you had an existing database under $HOME/Library/db
, you can move it to the new location to preserve your app associations. It has also been integrated with launchd
and will launch applications via the per-user instance if it is available.
A proof-of-concept hybrid runtime linker has been added as /usr/lib/dyld
. This is not Apple's dyld
- it's an attempt to resolve symbols from a MachO binary with exports from ELF shared objects. The goal here was to run Mac MachO executables against our ELF-based Frameworks and other libraries so we don't need two sets of them or to convert everything to MachO. Curious people can read these notes captured during its very early development.
So far, a small "hello world" in C using printf()
and one in Objective-C using Foundation's NSLog()
have been compiled on macOS and run under ravynOS's dyld
. GUI apps will not run yet.
You need to create symlinks as well that translate the library & framework names in the executable to those on ravynOS; e.g. ln -s /lib/libc.so.7 /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
.
(Due to the complexity of this translation, we will very likely be moving toward building a Mach-O based system.)
Alongside our dyld
is a very simple MachO image activator (BSD kernel module) that can recognize a MachO executable and transparently start it under dyld
. This lets you run MachO binaries the same way as native ELF ones. Load the macho.ko
module with kldload
to try it.
★ zoe@haru ~ᐳ file ~/hello2
/Users/zoe/hello2: Mach-O 64-bit x86_64 executable, flags:<NOUNDEFS|DYLDLINK|TWOLEVEL|PIE>
★ zoe@haru ~ᐳ ~/hello2
2022-01-17 23:24:34.531 hello2[50578:80187d000] Hello from MachO Foundation!
Our previous images used a pretty traditional X11/KDE desktop environment that was shoehorned into looking and behaving like the Mac desktop. However, this can only go so far due to the very different architecture and design of the two systems. 0.4.0pre3 has the very first bits of a new UI built ground-up to be what we need. It's based on the wayland protocol, wlroots, OpenGL ES2, EGL, and kernel mode setting (KMS) drivers using the direct rendering manager (DRM).
WindowServer can be started if you have an Intel, AMD embedded, or Radeon GPU. It will not work in virtual machines until we get KMS drivers for the virtual hardware - work is underway to support Vmware (vmwgfx) and virtio (qemu, bhyve, others). Briefly:
kldload i915kms # for Intel GPUs
/System/Library/CoreServices/WindowServer.app/WindowServer
If this works, you'll see a wallpaper and a placeholder menu bar with clock.
tmpfs
for writable areas and dropped unionfs
posix_spawn()
now supports the POSIX_SPAWN_SETEXEC
flag from Darwin./private
now exists with symlinks to some critical areasThere are still many major limitations and problems making this release unsuitable for daily use.
open
options (e.g. redirecting I/O, setting env vars, wait for exit) are not yet implemented on the launchd
version of LaunchServicesPlease see the wiki for system requirements, install instructions and where to find things.
Ask questions or give feedback in the Discussions area. Please report any bugs to the Issues tracker. Your help in fixing said bugs would be appreciated too! Thanks!
Download 0.4.0pre3 from NomadLogic - US West or your closest mirror:
US Central | US East | US East 2 | Norway | Denmark
Unstable "nightly" builds are also available for developer testing:
Download from US West | US Central | US East | US East 2 | Norway | Denmark
A huge thanks to the NetBSD and NextBSD projects for pioneering Mach support in BSD. Additional huge thanks to Jordan Hubbard, Kip Macy, the entire NextBSD team, and iX Systems for all their work on XPC, launchd, and Dispatch! As usual, thank you to our community of sponsors, designers, developers, testers, and users, and mirror hosts for supporting the project.
Published by mszoek almost 3 years ago
OpenJDK 17.0.1+12 (2021-10-30) built for airyxOS and usable as a bootstrap JDK for further builds.
This is a vanilla FreeBSD JDK other than being packaged for airyxOS. It does not have any menu, font, or other system integration yet.