Chaotix

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About

Chaotix (formerly known as Psychix or Magma) is a UNIX-like operating system written in C & multiple-architecture assembly that uses code from Xv6 and Yagura. It's features range from multitasking, to graphics & more!

Supported architectures

• [X] i?86
• [ ] ARM
• [ ] RISC-V
• [ ] PowerPC
• [ ] 68K

64-bit ISAs will be supported later, but first we want to support the basic 32-bit architectures...

Building

Building chaotix is easy. First of all, you'll need a i686-elf toolchain (if you don't have the toolchain, use chaotix's toolchain script which builds it for you). After that, simply run make. That builds the entire operating system (the kernel, libc, and the userland binaries). If you change the configuration (Config.mk), you must run make clean to clean all built source code, and then build by running make.

Testing & exporting

After building chaotix, you can test it and/or export it as a CD-ROM image. Chaotix supports using limine bootloader or GRUB bootloader. GRUB bootloader is the default option!

Testing

To test chaotix, simply run:

make run

To that all of the features of chaotix work, simply run:

make test

Exporting

To export chaotix, simply run:

make cdrom.iso

This will combine the chaotix kernel, it's initrd, and the GRUB bootloader into a bootable CD-ROM image (a .iso file). You can test it on real hardware by flashing that CD-ROM image to a USB drive using balena etcher or rufus. Chaotix supports multiboot, so you can also combine chaotix's kernel & initrd with any other bootloader that supports multiboot, but that isn't to be documented right now.

License

<a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"><img align="right" height="96" alt="MIT License" src=".assets/mit-license.png" /></a>

The Chaotix operating system is licensed under the MIT License.

See LICENSE to view the license. Also, take note that all files contain the license & copyright notice, unless if they are licensed under a license different from the MIT license. All fonts inside base/usr/share/fonts are NOT subject to Chaotix's copyright, and they are under a different license.