quark/README.md

Quark

Hobby OS, multiboot-compliant

What is quark?

A quark is an elemental fermion described in the... Oh, the OS?

Quark is a work-in-progress open-source OS designed to be easily scalable. It has been my main project since June 16th.

But what does it do for now?

As I said, it's a WIP, so it's gonna be growing. But I have some planned milestones. Here they are:

Milestone 1: Basic kernel

• x86-specific things
  • Interrupts (IDT, IRQ, ISR, PIC)
  • GDT
  • PIT timer
• Basic VGA text mode output
• PS/2 keyboard
• UART drivers
• Physical memory manager
• Virtual memory manager
• Virtual file system (mount and unmount capabilities)
• QROFS file system

Milestone 2: Users, welcome

• User space
• Process management
• ELF parser
• Shell now is a user space program
• Some drivers are now in user space

Milestone 3: Graphics

• Basically everything about GUI and stuff

Milestone 4: Connections and security

• Ethernet driver
• IPv4 (or maybe v6?) stack
• TCP/IP stack
• Network application layer
  • HTTP
• Criptography (with hardware acceleration)

Milestone 5: There you go! Free way!

• Some WiFi drivers
• USB drivers
• Applications!
  • File manager
  • Web browser
  • Terminal
• Package manager
• Some outside-of-the-box stuff
  • A web page
    • Wiki
    • Downloads
    • Forums
  • Matrix community server

And more! (when we get there)

Are contributions accepted?

Yes, of course! Feel free to create an issue reporting a bug or requesting some feature. Or even do a pull request!

You can even fork this project, if you want to, and continue by your way (just make sure to keep GPLv3!)