Astral is a 64 bit operating system with its own kernel written in C for the x86-64 architecture.

• SMP capable preemptible kernel
• Networking (TCP, UDP, DHCP)
• POSIX compatibility
• Ports: X.org, wine, fvwm3, gcc, bash, quake, vim and more
• Filesystems: tmpfs, devfs, ext2, fat{12,16,32}
• Block devices: NVMe, virtio-block, AHCI
• Network devices: virtio-net, rtl8169
• USB: xHCI, HID, Hubs
• ACPI: thanks to uACPI, there is ACPI support with proper poweroff, etc.
• Multiple user support
• Package management using xbps
• Audio: Intel HD Audio driver with mixing done by sndiod.

• Installation program
• Fully self hosting

If you built it from source, run make run-kvm or make run-disk-kvm

There are prebuilt images and instructions at https://astral-os.org/about.html.

The build process dependencies are specified here. If you wish to use the make img option, you will need mtools. All other needed packages will be installed/built on a container.

It is highly recommended you download pre-built packages from the official repository by running make download. This greatly reduces the compilation time as it will only need to build the host tools.

To build the project, run make. This will create a file named astral.iso

After this, if you wish to create an ext2 disk image, run make disk