Welcome to the Mandelbrot Operating System, a community driven OS by the youth. This OS is built by a humble (or not so humble) group of teenagers over at Discord. We do this solely to have fun and to learn. We are not organized and are here to enjoy ourselves. Sounds appealing? Create a pull request!

This project is made for fun and learning. It's like tracing OS history, but with modern knowledge and without a lot of (or any) budget!

• sudo pacman -S base-devel qemu nasm mtools

• sudo apt-get install build-essential qemu nasm mtools

MandelbrotOS depends on some tools, like the limine bootloader and the GNU Toolchain.

Before building the toolchain, you should fetch all submodules by doing:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Then you can proceed to build everything:

make toolchain

After it's done, you can head over to Building and Running.

To build the OS itself, make sure you have built the toolchain. After that, you can run:

make

Running make will automatically run QEMU by default.

MandelbrotOS is still in its early stages, and thus its userspace and kernel are not developed enough to get a working shell or UI, nor to port programs. However, some basic programs with predefined paths will be loaded by the kernel.

MandelbrotOS tries to keep some coding standards. They are

• Use snake_case for all variable and function names.
• Use SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE for all preprocessor macros and constants.
• Use include guards in all header files and make sure they follow the following format:

#ifndef __FILENAME_H__
#define __FILENAME_H__

// (...)

#endif

• Try to structure the file so that you include everything first, declare all variables second and then write all functions last.
• Code in GNU99 compatible C and NASM compatible assembly language.
• Use stdint.h and stddef.h variable declerations for standard number sizes.
• Make sure all custom typedefs end it _t.
• Once everything is done, make sure to format the code by running sh clang_format.sh.

MandelbrotOS uses code that is not it's own. You can see a list of used external libraries or snippets and their authors at AUTHORS.md

This is an open source project. Reuse code. Just follow the license terms and we are good. :)