ValeOS

Friday, May 15, 2026 | 2 minutes read | Update at Friday, May 15, 2026

Niko~

Custom OS and bootloader. Initially intended for use with a custom PDA.

Project Link : https://github.com/sysangl/ValeOS

From the project README

Why am I making an operating system?

Why not? There was not really any reason, except someone told me I should make my own OS. And so I did.

Overview

This repository contains (or will contain) an entire operating system complete with a bootloader. Written in Assembly and C, this is a project built from boredom and procrastination (I should’ve focused on my studies). No standard C libraries are or will be used, everything will be self written. The source code for this OS is not based on Linux. The roadmap is as follows :

• Bootloader
  • and whatever this thing does, as long as it boots without being unstable I’m happy.
• Kernel
  • Text interface
  • Numerical printing
  • Error logging
  • Serial IO
  • Memory management
    • Paging, might try to make my owwn paging algorithm
    • Memory map
    • Malloc/Free
  • File IO
  • GUI
  • Wireless
• “Operating System”, the stuff ’normal’ people will actually see
  • DE + WM, can be toggled or used as a hybrid
    • allow custom css/styling
    • keyboard shortcuts for the keyboard warriors
    • can be fully turned off for a text only session.
  • File system
    • Possibly might just use btrFS and write my own drivers, if not :
    • Basic interface (open, read, write, close, etc)
    • Permission system, more like UNIX (eg. 9-byte perms : rwxr-x–x, etc)
    • Try to make my own block algorithm
    • Add support for common FS, like FAT, ext4 and NTFS
  • Extensive user customisation
  • Video and Audio support
  • Package manager, both CLI and GUI
  • Custom highlevel language
    • Probably just a spin on Python
  • Some basic starter apps
    • terminal & shell
    • text editor (tui & gui)
    • music player
    • image and video viewer
    • basic web browser (really basic)
    • file explorer
    • any other things I may come up with
  • Doom (very important for any Operating System)

I might choose to seperate these into different repositories. Such as :

• Boot loader + Kernel + Libraries, the bare things needed : This Repo
• Filesystem (if I decide to make my own)
• Desktop Environment + Window Manager
• Apps (although I may just leave them in this repo, if theyre not too big)
• Package manager
• Doom (again, very important, it needs its own repo)