[1]: http://moros.cc
- codebase is reasonably compact, can be understood in a few weeks
- can be built with standard GCC provided by package manager, no need to built a custom GCC from source
- has user space, too
Seems like your project also have those points checked. Bookmarked!
I should also note that user space programs can do memory allocation via syscall, but I currently have an issue with the kernel memory that I probably need to remap higher in memory. So, most commands inside the OS are still executed from kernel space, although they use syscalls and everything as if they were user space programs. I'm having a lot of fun creating device files inspired by Plan9 to communicate with the kernel.
There's a lot of work yet to arrive at something that feels truly complete as an educational OS, but I'm hoping to get there eventually. I really like this project because I'm learning along the way all the time!
Your first point is one of my main goals: I want the whole OS, including user space programs, to fit inside one brain. I'm always trying to find ways to keep complexity low without compromising too much on performance.
Edit: I set up CloudFlare in front of the server and there's now a working HTTPS version along with the HTTP version accessible from inside MOROS. This should also work when I'll use again the web server inside the OS. Thanks for prompting me to look into it!
“You only need encryption for the sensitive stuff” is what we did, poorly, in the late ‘00s / early ‘10s, and it was rightfully proven to be a bad idea. There’s a reason why browsers treat HTTP the way they currently do, and it isn’t because they’ve been co-opted by Big Certificate Authority.
EDIT: and as the other commenter says, there are download links.
Which IMO has been a huge mistake since breaking caching proxies for networks because we want to prove authenticity and have to do secrecy as well has been quite silly.