Erm, does anyone still bother hiring in US/UK?
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Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system
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Vinix is an operating system project written in the V programming language that aims to be modern, fast, simple to read and maintain, and capable of running on real hardware rather than only in emulators. It prioritizes correctness and performance while keeping source-level compatibility with Linux to ease porting; on arm64 it can run Alpine binaries. Current targets are 64-bit amd64 and arm64 (including Apple Silicon M1), with drivers for IDE/SATA on amd64 and VirtIO on arm64 and networking via Intel e1000 and VirtIO. The project is explicitly pre‑alpha and not for production use.
Practical details include bootable ISO images for amd64 and arm64, a default software set (X.org with Mesa, GTK, Python, V, GCC, git, curl and a package manager that offers larger apps like Firefox/Chromium on first launch), and recommended VM resources (at least 4 GiB RAM and a 16 GiB disk). The repository contains many build and run scripts, kernel and installer code, and comprehensive build prerequisites (clang/LLVM/LLD, make, qemu, V compiler, etc.). A visible roadmap lists Alpine/musl userland, shells, storage drivers and ext2, X and Wayland support, hypervisor and NUMA work, real‑time scheduling, graphics drivers and a V-based UI, signaling an active, ambitious systems project.
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