GentleOS/32

A hobby operating system for vintage 32-bit PCs, built for tinkering with old hardware on the bare metal.

You can find more information on its website.

It has a spin-off called GentleOS/16, which targets even older, 16-bit PCs.

Building

The only prerequisite is Docker & Docker Compose, supporting linux/amd64 platform.

To compile GentleOS/32, run:

docker compose run --rm dev make -j4

You will find the resulting binaries in build/.

To clean up docker artifacts, run:

docker compose down --rmi all

Testing

The easiest way to test is to open gentleos32-web.html in a browser.

Attributions

• Assets in vendor/icons8 have been sourced from Icons8 using the free license and modified

• Assets in vendor/mona have been extracted from the Mona Font and modified (LICENSE)

• Assets in vendor/int10h have been extracted from the The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack and modified (LICENSE)

License

Except where otherwise noted, GentleOS/32 is licensed under GPLv2.