juniorohanyere / ferretos

A complex terminal based operating system

Ferret OS

A console operating system (OS) that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs via a command-line interface (CLI).

A light-weight, but complex, terminal-based OS where all the basic features of an OS are displayed on, and operated from, the CLI.

Key Features

User interface: provides a friendly user interface that allows users to interact with the system via a command-line interface.

File system management: manages the organisation and storage of files on disk, providing a hierachical file system and file access controls, via the CLI.

Process management: manages the execution of programs or proceses, allocating resources such as CPU time, memory, and I/O devices.

Memory management: manages the allocation and deallocation of memory to processes, ensuring that each process has access to the memory it needs.

Device management: manages the interaction between the computer and its peripheral devices, such as printers, scanners, and network adapters.

Security: provides security features such as user authentication, access controls, and encryption to protect the system and its data from unauthorised access.

Networking: provides networking features such as TCP/IP protocol support, network configuration, and network device drivers.

Web interfacing: provides web browsing features, interfaced through the command line.

Multitasking: allows multiple programs or processes to run simultaneously, sharing system resources such as CPU time and memory.

Error handling: provides error handling features that detect and recover from errors such as hardware failures, software crashes, and network errors.

Virtualisation: provides virtualisation features that allow multiple operating systems or instances of an operating system to run on a single physical machine, and also ability to run on virtualisation softwares, like virtual box and vmware, as a guest operating system.

Windowless: provides a command-line interface, where there is no support for windowing features or graphical user interface (GUI) , every activity is carried out on a single terminal.

Customization: provides customization for system layouts and appearance.

Project Structure

FerretOS
 |
 |-core/
 |  |
 |  |-boot/
 |  |  |
 |  |  |-stage1
 |  |  |
 |  |  |-stage2
 |  |
 |  |-cpu/
 |  |
 |  |-drivers/
 |  |
 |  |-kernel/
 |
 |-os/
    |
    |-bash/
    |
    |-libs/
    |
    |-sysroot/
    |  |
    |  |-bin/
    |  |
    |  |-devices/
    |  |
    |  |-etc/
    |  |  
    |  |-home/
    |  |
    |  |-media/
    |  |
    |  |-root/
    |  |
    |  |-tmp/
    |  |
    |  |-usr/
    |     |
    |     |-bin/
    |
    |-term/
    |
    |-utils/
    |
    |-websh/

The above structure shows a prototype for directories of the project.

NOTE: It's just a PROTOTYPE and can be modified or entirely changed with time.

See the readme files located in each directories for more info

Have A Feel!

CLIMB.mp4