BareMetal OS

[IanSeyler]

It's been a long time since I posted about BareMetal OS.. 2013 based on the date of the old thread.

BareMetal is in active development again. Latest additions:

- UEFI support
- NVMe driver
- Virtio (net and block) drivers
- xHCI driver with keyboard support
- Intel 10gbit driver (8259x chip)

https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-OS

[eekee]

Welcome back!

I just realised, when I want a native PC forth, it would save me some work to target an exokernel instead of the hardware directly. It's a way off though, I want to target ARM32 first because I have a lot of ARM32 hardware.

[sandras]

I would describe the OS I started working on as a userspace Forth system on top of a purpose built kernel. I'm not confident in my knowledge of exokernels to call mine that, but perhaps it will be something similar. I think we have a common idea in mind, eekee.

I'll also take this opportunity to express my long-standing admiration for BareMetal OS. Not to say there's anything wrong in writing a Unix-like OS, but I do enjoy seeing people try something different, simplify some aspect of an OS.

[phredreeck]

Welcome back.
Glad to see BareMetal OS is still alive