Copyright (C) 2009 Kristian Hart

Introduction

I believe that for operating systems to truly improve in this period in time, there needs to be a new operating system created, that is not bloated and can be expanded upon easily. Adding new Features inside the kernel just adds more bugs. The only thing the kernel really needs to do is manage how software interacts with the hardware, nothing else.

Kernel

Leviathan achieves a lack of bloat through a Microkernel. This way if a feature is wanted it can be added in user land. This way the kernel is small and manageable, while being very extensible.

Design Doc Sections

• RWFS Design
• General System Calls
• Application System Calls
• Device System
• Memory Management

Intended OS Features

Planned For Version 1.0.0

• RWFS File System Server - 500 million exabytes of possible storage!
• Virtual File System - many filesystems can be read
• Virtual Disk System - allows for multiple disks to be treated as one
• Complete Device Driver Interface
• Preemptive Multitasking
• Flat Executables
• LEL Executables (Leviathan Executable Linkable)

• GUI
• Assembler
• Text Editor