Minoca OS

Minoca is the free operating system.

On November 1, 2016 the Minoca Corp company announced the publication of the source code Minoca OS under license GNU GPL v3.

According to the statement in the blog of the company, Minoca OS there is a system of general purpose, contains 625 thousand lines of the documentary code, generally in the Si language, partially C ++ and the Assembler. OS kernel for x86 has the size ~ 750 CBs. With drivers, a network stack and the video buffer the loaded system uses 5−7 MB^[1].

Minoca OS is the operating system which can be used on any devices. Developers consider, it most of all is suitable for the built-in systems (IoT) and mobile devices where there are restrictions on level energy consumption, to the amount of memory and power of the processor.

A system is compatible to a set of interfaces of POSIX and on it start of the applied applications existing under Linux is possible.

Screenshot of the OS window, (2016)

The main difference from Linux in the concept of a core which architecture provides reduced energy consumption, the increased high-speed performance, smaller employment of memory and updating of a core without recompilation of drivers.

Minoca OS works at architecture of x86, ARMv6 and ARMv7 with support of a virtual memory. A system is controlled events, allows replacement and supports creation of networks. Behind use of resources, memories and a programs runtime the debugger of Minoca Debugger monitors^[2].

Minoca OS can be used on low-power devices as requires for work of rather small resources. But at the same time demands wide functionality from the device:

• multithreading,
• support of file systems
• other components of the high level.

In Minoca OS the scaling option is put that does it suitable for computers with multi-core processors and volume RAM.

In terms of the application or the user, Minoca OS is similar to the server Linux distribution kit, one of OS developers Evan Green stated. Such option is selected consciously that OS could work with the majority of applications.

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