benOS is a decentralized operating system, originally based on Linux, uses some design strategies from RedoxOS and even some design concepts from OpenStack, Ethereum and EOS. Although we utilize some of their design strategies, benOS is completely custom from a codebase perspective.

benOS has many components that make the wheels turn. Below are a list of those components:

Nova - Global Decentralized Hypervisor For The Bench Network
Kepler - Global Decentralized Identity Management For The Bench Network
Designate - Global Decentralized Naming Service For The Bench Network
Flutter - Global Decentralized Image Service For The Bench Network
Neutron - Global Network Creation & Management For The Bench Network

• BenchCore - Core Decentralized Network Component For The Bench Network
  
• BenchChain - Neutron's RootChain On The Bench Network
  

Aero - Global Object Storage Distributor & Manager For The Bench Network
Explorer - Global dApp Distributor, Manager and Viewer For The Bench Network
benFS - benOS FileSystem
dappJS - dApp Development Kit For The Bench Network
Mercury - benOS Graphical User Interface
Asteroid - benOS Native Programming Language
Meteor - benOS Native IDE for dApp Development

benOS-Microkernel - benOS Microkernel
benOS-Bootloader - benOS Bootloader
ParseArgs - benOS-based Argument Parsing
X - benOS Graphical User Interface

NOTE: There are other pieces under development as well, as our development team grows.

As we move through the growth stages of decentralized technologies, at some point we had to get to the operating system. We have spent an enormous amount of time looking at how a decentralized operating systems should work and what makes them different from their earlier counterparts. A lot of the methodologies of old are still used but the way they work have changed dramatically. Some developers see a blockchain as a global computer and that it therefore is a operating system and in a way, they're right but in some ways they're wrong. Below we take a look at traditional operating systems vs. decentralized operating systems, as well as sophisticated blockchains vs. decentralized operating systems.

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benOS is currently under development in the development branch.

benOS may use software from other open source libraries. For a full list of software credits and acknowledgements, please visit https://github.com/benchlab/benOS/blob/master/ATTRIBUTES.md. The original LICENSE or LICENSES for the originating software(s) and library or libraries that were used to create benOS are still active, although, considering this Bench software and the softwares and/or libraries/packages it is imported into may be used to issue illegal securities, the BENCH LICENSE is activated for this purpose. This does not take away the credits, disable the originating LICENSE or in any way disown the original creation, creators, developers or organizations that originally developed many of the libaries used throughout Bench's large array of software libraries packaged together for the purposes of building a decentralized operating system (benOS)

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