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| author = Jordi Sanfeliu |
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| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[Assembly language|Assembly]] |
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[Assembly language|Assembly]] |
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| operating system = [[Unix-like]] |
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| platform = [[IA-32|i386]] |
| platform = [[IA-32|i386]] |
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| source model = [[Free Software]] |
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| released = {{Start date and age|2018|04|23}} |
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| latest release version = 1.0.1 |
| latest release version = 1.0.1 |
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| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2018|08|04}} |
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2018|08|04}} |
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| source model = [[Free Software]] |
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| size = 35,000 [[Source_lines_of_code|LOC]] (approximately) |
| size = 35,000 [[Source_lines_of_code|LOC]] (approximately) |
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| genre = [[Monolithic_kernel|Monolithic kernel]] |
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| license = [[MIT_License|MIT License]] |
| license = [[MIT_License|MIT License]] |
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| website = https://www.fiwix.org/ |
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*[http://www.fiwix.org/ Fiwix home page] |
*[http://www.fiwix.org/ Fiwix home page] |
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*[http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4839 An article about Fiwix in OS News] |
*[http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4839 An article about Fiwix in OS News] |
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==External links== |
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* [https://www.fiwix.org/global/HTML/ Browse source code] |
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* {{Freshmeat|Fiwix|Fiwix}} |
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* {{freenode|fiwix}} on [[freenode]] |
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[[Category:Unix variants]] |
[[Category:Unix variants]] |
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Revision as of 14:56, 3 September 2018
 GNU/Fiwix v1.1 with Fiwix kernel v1.0.1 | |
| Original author(s) | Jordi Sanfeliu |
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| Initial release | April 23, 2018 |
| Stable release | 1.0.1
/ August 4, 2018 |
| Written in | C, Assembly |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Platform | i386 |
| Size | 35,000 LOC (approximately) |
| Type | Monolithic kernel |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | https://www.fiwix.org/ |
Fiwix or GNU/Fiwix is an operating system kernel based on the UNIX architecture and fully focused on being POSIX compatible. It is designed and developed mainly as a hobby OS, but it also serves for educational purposes. It runs on the 32-bit x86 hardware platform and is compatible with a good base of existing GNU applications. It follows the System V Application Binary Interface (or ABI) and is also Linux 2.0 System Call ABI mostly compatible
The Fiwix operating system uses the Fiwix kernel, includes a GNU toolchain (GCC, Glibc, Binutils, Make) and uses the Newlib v2.2.0 as its system C Library. Its primary filesystem is the Minix v2 which limits the file names to 30 character length, and a maximum file system size to 1GB.
Features
Features according to the official website include:
- GRUB Multiboot Specification compliant.
- POSIX compliant (mostly).
- Process groups, sessions and job control.
- Interprocess communication with pipes and signals.
- BSD file locking mechanism (POSIX restricted to whole file and advisory only).
- Linux 2.0 ABI system calls compatibility (mostly)
- Round Robin based scheduler algorithm (no priorities yet).
- Minix v1 and v2 filesystem support.
- EXT2 filesystem support (read only) with 1KB, 2KB and 4KB block sizes.
- Linux-like PROC filesystem support (read only).
- ISO9660 filesystem support with Rock Ridge extensions.
- RAMdisk device support.
- SVGALib based applications support.
- Virtual console support (up to 12).
- Keyboard driver with Linux keymaps support.
- Floppy disk device driver and DMA management.
- IDE/ATA hard disk device driver.
- IDE/ATA ATAPI CDROM device driver.
References
External links
- Browse source code
- "Fiwix". Freecode.
- #fiwix connect on freenode
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