Hexium OS

Welcome to Hexium OS, an experimental operating system written in Rust. This project explores the boundaries of Rust in systems programming and serves as a platform for learning and innovation.

This operating system is being openly developed on GitHub. If you have any problems or questions, please open an issue there.

Features

• Rust-Powered: Fully written in Rust, focusing on safety, performance, and modern systems programming practices.
• Bare Metal Development: Runs directly on hardware, without relying on an existing operating system.
• Learning-Oriented: Aimed at understanding OS architecture, low-level programming, and Rust's capabilities in systems development.
• Modular Design: Designed for extensibility and future feature development.

Download

You can download the project from the GitHub repository.

Building

This project requires a nightly version of Rust because it uses some unstable features. At least nightly 2020-07-15 is required for building. You might need to run rustup update nightly --force to update to the latest nightly even if some components such as rustfmt are missing it.

You can build the project by running:

For Linux

make setup

make

For Windows

make.bat

This creates a bootable disk image in the root directory.

Please file an issue if you have any problems.

Running

You can run the disk image in QEMU through:

For Linux (using QEMU)

The QEMU tool need to be installed for this.

make run

For Linux (not using QEMU) NOT RECOMMENDED

You can use the ISO image produced by make to boot it using a different virtual machine tool.

For Windows THIS IS WHAT WILL BE USED, WHEN IT WORKS!!!

You can use the ISO image produced by make.bat to boot it using a different virtual machine tool.

We recommend either Virtual Box or Hyper-V Manager.