A hobbyist operating system for vintage 32-bit PCs.
Its goal is to provide a simple platform for tinkering with retro hardware and running graphical interactive apps on bare metal.
At a minimum, it only requires an i386 CPU, 4MB of RAM, and a VGA display capable of 640x480x16 mode.
By design it is completely monolithic, mostly configured at compile time, and supports only standard PC devices: VGA/SVGA, keyboard, PS/2 mouse, serial mouse, PC speakers. The only future plans are bugfixes, optimizations, and adding more apps.
GentleOS/32 has a pure 16-bit spin-off called GentleOS/16, which targets older devices such as the 80186.
For details of construction and operation, see USAGE.md.
Except where otherwise noted, GentleOS/32 is licensed under the GPLv2.
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