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Astral

An operating system for 64-bit architectures with its own kernel written in C.

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Astral is an operating system written in C for 64-bit architectures. It implements its own kernel and includes a collection of ported userspace software. Features include a 64-bit SMP capable preemptible kernel, networking with UDP and TCP support, a DHCP client, POSIX compatibility, and support for various filesystems (ext2, FAT12/16/32) and virtual filesystems (devfs, tmpfs). It supports block devices like NVMe, virtio-block, and AHCI, network devices like virtio-net and RTL8169, and USB via xHCI, HID, and Hubs. Package management is done by XBPS. The recommended way to run Astral is in a virtual machine such as QEMU.

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