ToaruOS is a from-scratch Unix-like operating system that provides a representative desktop OS environment for learning and experimentation.
It targets x86-64 PCs and ARMv8 VM environments, and includes its own kernel, bootloader, C standard library, dynamic linker, graphical environment, applications, and supporting tools rather than using the Linux kernel.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Includes Misaka, a hybrid modular kernel forming the core of the operating system.
- Provides a composited graphical user interface with its own window compositor.
- Ships with a dynamically linked userspace, shared libraries, and dlopen support.
- Includes a Unix-like terminal environment with a terminal emulator, shell, and familiar utilities.
- Bundles Bim, a Vim-inspired text editor with syntax highlighting.
- Includes Kuroko, a dynamic bytecode-compiled programming language.
- Offers VM integration features for VirtualBox and VMware Workstation, including absolute mouse support and automatic display sizing.
- Can be run in QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, and on some real hardware.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | Yutani |
| Init Software: | ToaruOS init |
| Package Management: | msk |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | x86-64, AArch64 |
| Home Page: | toaruos.org |
| Developer: | K. Lange |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distributions. |
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