POSIX compliant Operating System http://aquilaos.com The moment I have been avoiding for way too long. Finally we have a very very modest implementation of POSIX mmap, currently we only support MAP_FIXED and only VESA fbdev implements mmap, but it’s a good start. As a demonstration of it, fbterm now uses mmap instead of I/O functions,... Sun, 20 May 2018 00:00:00 -0700 http://aquilaos.com/2018-05-20-hello-mmap/ http://aquilaos.com/2018-05-20-hello-mmap/ About a month ago, I posted about using Nuklear GUI library in AquilaOS. We also have a video of NuklearUI with custom font, images and wallpaper. I have been trying to wrap my head around the code, understanding exactly how Nuklear works and how to convert it to client/server model... Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 -0700 http://aquilaos.com/2018-05-09-playing-with-nuklear/ http://aquilaos.com/2018-05-09-playing-with-nuklear/ I won’t lie, memory management is the most frustrating thing in OS design for me. It takes the most time and debugging it is nevertheless exhausting. I have, however, redesigned it to be more generic than before and relax much more arch. dependent code. The New Design Physical Memory Management... Mon, 07 May 2018 00:00:00 -0700 http://aquilaos.com/2018-05-07-memory-management-redesign/ http://aquilaos.com/2018-05-07-memory-management-redesign/ I have been looking into various options of GUI/Windowing systems to implement in AquilaOS and here is what I found so far X While X is the defacto when it comes to GUI, it is extremely heavy, mostly optimized for Linux and requires too much dependencies. Wayland Wayland is a... Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0700 http://aquilaos.com/2018-04-09-nuklear-ui/ http://aquilaos.com/2018-04-09-nuklear-ui/ This is my first post, how exciting! Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0800 http://aquilaos.com/2018-02-17-hello-world/ http://aquilaos.com/2018-02-17-hello-world/