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The Sortix Operating System
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Sortix is a small self-hosting Unix-like operating system developed since 2011
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aiming to be a clean and modern POSIX implementation. There's a lot of technical
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debt that needs to be paid, but it's getting better. Traditional design mistakes
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are avoided or aggressively deprecated by updating the base system and ports as
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needed. The Sortix kernel, standard libraries, and most utilities were written
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entirely from scratch. The system is halfway through becoming multi-user and
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while security vulnerabilities are recognized as bugs, it should be considered
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insecure at this time.
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Links
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For more information, documentation and news, please visit the official website:
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https://sortix.org/
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You can also download the newest release and cutting edge nightly builds at:
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https://users-cs.au.dk/sortie/sortix/release/
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You can retrieve the current git master from our project page at:
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https://gitlab.com/sortix/sortix
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System Requirements
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Sortix has low system requirements. It also works well under virtual machines
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such as VirtualBox and Qemu:
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* A 32-bit x86 (with SSE) or 64-bit x86_64 CPU.
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* A few dozen megabytes of RAM - or if you are using a cdrom release with ports
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then you likely need at least twice the size of the cdrom image.
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* A harddisk or cdrom drive or support for booting from USB.
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* A multiboot compliant bootloader if booting from harddisk.
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* ATA or AHCI harddisk.
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Documentation
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The system is documented as manual pages. Introductory system usage is covered
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in the user-guide(7) manual page.
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Building Sortix
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Development of Sortix under itself is covered in development(7).
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Development from another operating system is covered in cross-development(7).
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You can view the cross-development(7) manual page with this command:
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man share/man/man7/cross-development.7
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License
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Copyright 2011-2016 Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen and contributors.
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Sortix is free software licensed under the ISC license as described in the
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LICENSE file. It also contains permissively licensed code from other projects.
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