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# ZenithOS
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The Zenith Operating System is a modernized, professional fork of the 64-bit Temple Operating System.
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ZenithOS strives to be simple, documented, and require as little of a knowledge gap as possible. One person should be able to comprehend the entire system in at least a semi-detailed way within a few days of study.
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Simplify, don't complicate; make accessible, don't obfuscate.
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> The CIA encourages code obfuscation. They make it more complicated than necessary.\
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—Terry A. Davis
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Features in development include:
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- Fully-functional AHCI support
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- ~~VBE support~~ 32-bit color VBE graphics
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- A new GUI framework in 32-bit color
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- Compiler optimizations for speed improvements
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- SSE2+ instruction support in compiler and assembler
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- Network card drivers and a networking stack
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Changes include:
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- 60 FPS
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- VBE graphics with variable resolutions
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- 440Hz 'A' tuning changed to 432Hz
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- HolyC -> CosmiC
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- System-wide renaming for clarity
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- Removed shift-space mechanism
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- Caps Lock is reassigned as Backspace
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- Reformatted code for readability
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- Added comments and documentation
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## Getting started
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### Prerequisites
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- For running in a VM: Intel VT-x/AMD-V acceleration enabled in your BIOS settings. (Required to virtualize any 64-bit operating system properly.)
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- Working knowledge of the C programming language.
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Every commit contains a "Zenith-latest-YYYY-MM-DD-HH_MM_SS.iso" in the root of master, which is a timestamped ISO build of that commit.
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This is basically a read-only repository. Everything happens inside the OS, as intended by Terry. After you've installed the latest release in a VM, you can make changes to the source. Once you've made your changes, you can make copies of the relevant files and put them into a folder, along with some kind of notes as to what you've done either as a DolDoc document or in the pull request later. You can then make a RedSea ISO file out of that folder by running `RedSeaISO("MyChanges.ISO", "/Home/Folder");`. Export the contents of the VM hard drive in whatever OS-specific way you have to (there are scripts in the root of the repo), grab the ISO, and send it; a pull request attachment with the zipped ISO would work fine.
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## Background
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In around November of 2019, [VoidNV](https://github.com/VoidNV) decided to continue Terry's work in a direction that would make it a viable operating system while still keeping the innovative and divine-intellect ideas and design strategies intact.
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At first, development occurred exclusively inside a VM and ISOs were occasionally generated as official releases. This was not a good approach, as things broke and there was no way of telling which changes caused what, so it was scrapped and restarted from scratch.\
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Releases of the "old" Zenith are currently archived on the `mega.nz` website:
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- [Previous Releases](https://mega.nz/#F!ZIEGmSRQ!qvL6Wk6THzE-dazkfT6N3Q)
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The repository was removed in August of 2020, and is reuploaded here for preservation and future work. The latest archived [front page](https://web.archive.org/web/20200811190005/https://github.com/VoidNV/ZenithOS/), [master.zip](https://web.archive.org/web/20200811190054/https://codeload.github.com/VoidNV/ZenithOS/zip/master), and [related links](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://github.com/VoidNV/ZenithOS/*) can be found on archive.org.
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## Screenshots
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System Report, Z Splash and AutoComplete, with Stars wallpaper
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32-bit color!
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