OpenMach

OpenMach is an experimental operating system developed with the goal of advancing operating system research. It is based on the UK22 release of Mach 4 released on March 29, 1996. This project builds on the ideas from the original Mach kernel at Carnegie Mellon University, the later Mach 4 kernel from University of Utah, and design philosophies from systems that have emerged in recent years that show considerable promise. The result will be a very small, privileged kernel coupled with tightly knit user mode servers and user level libraries to provide applications a highly secure, robust and performant environment in which to execute.

License

OpenMach is released under the BSD 2-Clause License.

Source

The latest copy of the sources for OpenMach can be obtained using Git from https://github.com/openmach/openmach.git [Browse Code | Download zip | Download tar.gz]

Building

git clone https://github.com/openmach/openmach.git openmach
cd openmach && mkdir obj && cd obj
../i386/configure --with-elf --enable-debug
make (or gmake in the case of FreeBSD)
On successful build, you can use the sample (freebsd) script to copy the binaries to the right location in the disk image.

Sample bochsrc for those using bochs to debug.

Bug Reporting

You may report issues or request features at the Project Issues Page @ GitHub

IRC

For technical or general discussions about the project, join us at irc.freenode.net in the #openmach channel.

Maintainers

Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to the project to contribute as they see fit. Following the BSD model, non-trivial changes should be reviewed by one or more other committers before being checked into the source tree.

  • Shawn Debnath
  • Documentation

  • Mach Documentation Library