BærOS Documentation

Table of Contents

• BærOS in a nutshell
• Contribute to BærOS
• The quickest start
• Structure
• Further information

BærOS in a nutshell

BærOS is an open-source Unix-like operating system project, designed to be a playground for computer science students (and teachers!). Target platform for BærOS are cheap single board computer (SBC) like the Raspberry Pi.

Currently, BærOS is in a very early stage, not much more than a bootloader and a Hello World kernel (called nucleus).

Contribute to BærOS

BærOS is developed under the open source license MIT and welcomes any contributions especially from students:

• Download and contribute your code on GitHub.
• Mailinglist/Forums will be eventually be created...

The quickest start

You can run BærOS currently on Raspberry Pi Model 1 only, more devices will be added from time to time. You can compile and run it using the following terminal statements:

# Assumption: git and gcc-arm-none-eabi is installed
git clone https://github.com/chrlns/baeros.git
cd baeros/nucleus                              
make TARGET=armv6
 
# Format a SD card with FAT32
# Copy contents of baeros/misc/sd to SD card
mv nucleus.img /path/to/sd/BAEROS.IMG
 
# Put SD card in your pi and boot it

Structure

Here follows a introductory description of BaerOS structure as soon it has one.

Further information

Follow the Mastodon tag #baeros for news.