Sylphide OS: an operating system for computers based on microcontrollers
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Do you want a hobby operating system with a desktop for a microcontroller-based computer? Sylphide OS is a new project aiming to build just that. For the last few weeks, I’ve worked on a new pet project: an operating system for computers based on microcontrollers. There aren’t many yet, but I expect them to be more and more common. Why MCU computers ? You get a relatively very simple platform, booting straight to your code (or almost), and you can understand the whole architecture. Exactly as it was with home computers long ago. And not at all what you get with modern computers. Even booting involves lot of very different systems, black magic, and even blog/proprietary software. ↫ Thomas Capricelli It’s very early in development, but by building it atop FreeRTOS, Capricelli had a head-start. It’s got a basic desktop, one that might need some changes to avoid the lawyers. The code’s open source, of course.