UboxOS | Devlog 1

I don’t have much have anything really flashy to show off yet.

I mapped an 8x8 font I found in the public domain on github to each character, and then I created a print function in order to print using the framebuffer limine gives me but in a way less complicated way.

This took way longer than it should have to debugged it. It started with the text being completely backwards, so I tried to make a fix but then that just made the text completely unreadable. I looked at a few forums and FINALLY fixed it.

It just feels satisfying to solve something on your own without copy and pasting from AI

I’m working on an OS from scratch for potato PCs.

I’m writing it from complete scratch and assembly in c++. I’m not hoping to finish it or even have a UI by the time stardance is over. I just thought it would be cool to work on this.

I’m taking a lot of inspiration from chromeOS and those web os things on those 2000s computers where it boots into a thin client, so I have 2 goals for my os,

1. be as memory efficent as possible and
2. get it to have a browser and vnc client.

an OS for all the hp streams of the world !

I called it UboxOS because it’s meant to be user friendly and because I was going to call it boxOS but BoxOS was already taken