Aquila OS

UNIX-like Operating System, including the kernel and system tools. Intended to be fully POSIX compliant. Oh, and it compiles with -O3.

Build Instructions

Follow the instructions in this wiki page.

CPU-based Features:

Supported Archetictures:

• x86
• x86-64

• Multitasking
• Multithreading
• SMP

Kernel Features:

• Monolitihic kernel
• Virtual Filesystem
• Supports loadable modules

Supported Filesystems:

• initramfs (CPIO Archive filesystem, used for Ramdisk, read only)
• tmpfs (Generic temporary filesystem, read/write)
• devfs (Virtual filesystem, used for device handlers, statically populated, read/write)
• devpts (Virtual filesystem, used for psudo-terminals, dynamically populated, read/write)
• procfs (Processes information filesystem, read only)
• ext2 (Basic Extended 2 filesystem, read/write)
• ext3
• ext4
• sysfs

Supported Devices:

• i8042 (PS/2 Controller)
• ramdev (Memory mapped device, generic handler)
• ps2kbd (PS/2 Keyboard Controller)
• console (IBM TGA console)
• ata (ATA Harddisk handler, PIO mode)
• fbdev (Generic framebuffer device handler)
• 8250 (UART)

Supported video interfaces:

• VESA 3.0

System Feautres:

• newlib-3.0.0 (latest)
• aqbox (Aquila Box, like busybox)
• fbterm (Framebuffer based terminal)
• tcc (Tiny C Compiler)
• lua (Lua programming language)
• kilo (Kilo text editor)