ToaruOS-NIH

This is an experimental spin-off / distribution of ToaruOS which includes no third-party components.

Rationale

ToaruOS's kernel is entirely in-house. Its userspace, however, is built on several third-party libraries and tools, such as the Newlib C library, Freetype, Cairo, libpng, and most notably Python. While the decision to build ToaruOS on these technologies is not at all considered a mistake, the possibility remains to build a userspace entirely from scratch.

Goals

• Write a basic C library.

  To support building the native ToaruOS libraries and port some basic software, a rudimentary C library is required.

• Remove Cairo as a dependency for the compositor.

  Cairo is a major component of the modern ToaruOS compositor, but is the only significant third-party dependency. This makes the compositor, which is a key part of what makes ToaruOS "ToaruOS", an important inclusion in this project.

• Write a vector font library.

  Support for TrueType/OpenType TBD, but vector fonts are critical to the visual presentation of ToaruOS.

• Support a compressed image format.

  ToaruOS used a lot of PNGs, but maybe writing our format would be fun.