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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://cs.au.dk/~sortie/sortix/release/
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You can retrieve the current git master from our gitorious project page at:
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https://gitorious.org/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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* A Parallel ATA harddisk, if you wish to access it from Sortix. The AHCI driver
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has not been merged yet.
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Documentation
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You can find the documentation for Sortix use and development at your local
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documentation mirror, for instance:
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The documentation directory in a Sortix system:
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/share/doc
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The doc directory inside the Sortix source repository:
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doc/
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The official Sortix website:
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https://sortix.org/doc/
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Building Sortix
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---------------
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If you wish to build Sortix under Sortix itself, please consult the user guide:
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$MY_LOCAL_DOCUMENTATION_MIRROR/user-guide
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If you wish to cross-build Sortix from another operating system, please read
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the cross development guide:
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$MY_LOCAL_DOCUMENTATION_MIRROR/cross-development
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Documentation
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Basic usage of the system has been documented at:
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$MY_LOCAL_DOCUMENTATION_MIRROR/user-guide
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License
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-------
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Copyright(C) Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen <sortie@maxsi.org> and contributors 2011,
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2012, 2013, 2014.
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Sortix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
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WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
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PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the COPYING-GPL and COPYING-LGPL files for more
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information.
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See the individual files for copyright terms. If a file does not contain a
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license header, you can assume it is released under the GNU General Public
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Licenser, either version 3 or (at your option) any later version. This includes
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Sortix-related experimental branches and repositories found on Gitorious: these
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things are so experimental that I might not have added copyright statements.
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The build scripts might not contain a copyright license in which case they are
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covered by the standard license for the software component they relate to.
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Unless the license header in the source code states otherwise, the Sortix
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kernel, the filesystem servers, the initrd tools, the utilities, the games, the
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benchmark programs, regression tests, base programs, editors, shell, init, and
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the tix package management programs are licensed under the GNU General Public
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License, either version 3 or (at youroption) any later version.
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Unless the license header in the source code states otherwise, the libc library,
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the libpthread library, and the libdispd library are licensed under the GNU
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Lesser General Public License, either version 3 or (at your option) any later
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version.
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The Sortix math library (libm) is licensed as described in the libm/LEGAL file.
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