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- Monolithium is a 32-bit operating system for x86 PCs. It is not a Unix-like
- system, and shares almost nothing with the Unix architecture. Written
- completely from scratch, it is completely incompatible with other operating
- systems. Currently, only the Monolithium kernel is implemented. The other major
- components, the "system library" and "system manager", are still missing.
- Monolithium wasn't implemented according to any existing design, it was more or
- less designed as it was implemented, so the current interface may not be
- consistent. During this phase of its development, its kernel module interface
- and application programming interface are not stable and subject to major
- changes.
- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- 1) Why write another OS from scratch?
- Most software development today is focused on assembling software from existing
- "building blocks", using libraries and high-level programming languages, which
- are designed to be complex and generic because they need to cover a lot of use
- cases. Simplicity is a very useful trait that is often overlooked. Monolithium
- is one of the few operating system projects with simplicity as its primary goal.
- 2) Why is there no development history?
- I started this project in 2011, before I understood how VCS systems work and why
- they're important. I made backups at regular intervals, but since I didn't use
- git, there are no commits before the first release.
- 3) Will the interface ever become stable?
- Having a stable interface, which will not change to the extent that later
- versions break software running in userspace, is one of the end goals of
- the project.
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