Is anyone here interested in contributing to this OS?

valivalivali 11 points 6 comments June 06, 2026
github.com · View on Hacker News

Discussion Highlights (5 comments)

valivalivali

Looking for systems programmers who want to build an OS from scratch. X OS is an x86_64 microkernel built from scratch. No POSIX, no Unix ABI. The kernel only handles scheduling, memory, and IPC. Everything else — display server, filesystem, shell — runs in ring 3 via message passing. Currently boots in QEMU with GPU compositor, NVMe block device, XFS filesystem, and PS/2 input. Needs help with: terminal, shell, drivers, networking, UI design, and applications.

sameersri2004

Good Idea can be used with AI agents as their OS would definately be terminal first rather than having a UI.

sublimefire

I personally look at the license and say no. If the license does not respect my contributions and just farms my input then why bother?

jp_sc

What is this, the "lean methodology" for OSS? Every other repo of that user is a placeholder with an ellaborated README but zero code.

sam_gardner

This is awesome! Do you have an end-goal in mind?

Semantic search powered by Rivestack pgvector
10,002 stories · 93,925 chunks indexed