rust-os

rust-os is an experimental operating system written in Rust, developed as part of the Low-Level Programming (LL) 2025W course.

The project implements a minimal x86_64 kernel that runs without the Rust standard library (no_std) and can be executed on bare metal or under an emulator such as QEMU.

Key features

• x86_64 no_std kernel written in Rust
• Execution on bare metal or under QEMU
• TAR-based read-only RAM disk mounted at /
• Interactive shell with basic filesystem commands
• Execution of WebAssembly (.wasm) programs from the RAM disk

Project scope

The primary goal of this project is to explore low-level operating system concepts such as booting, memory management, interrupts, and basic process execution, while leveraging Rust as a systems programming language.

The operating system is intended for educational and experimental purposes and is not designed for production use.

Source code

The rust-os course project is available in two GitHub repositories. Both repositories contain the same project and can be used interchangeably.

• https://github.com/rettetdemdativ/rust-os
• https://github.com/Konstiu/Rust-OS

Detailed documentation, build instructions, and implementation details are provided in the respective repository README files.

© 2025 – rust-os project