eDOS is a Python-based "Operating System" similiar in design to DOS. Its principle design revolves around all system files being compressed to a disk image and uncompressed as needed at runtime. This allows for eDOS installs to be completely portable and debuggable.
Is it a real operating system?
No. eDOS is just an isolated system with a command shell.
So, what's the point of it then?
eDOS is meant to be ran on embedded systems, as it can run smoothly with little overhead. It could be referred to as an more-isolated clone of Bash, but eDOS is more about making a fully functioning system rather than just a shell.
In case it wasn't already clear, eDOS uses a gzipped tarball to store its filesystem. It is important to make sure you have the CPU requirements to handle compressing/decompressing the archive at runtime and that you have enough physical disk space to do so as well.
The following are needed before continuing with the install:
- Python 3.10 or above (you can get the latest release from the Python website)
- Git SCM (optional, download here)
The following steps should allow you to setup a basic eDOS system.
Please note that these steps are platform-dependent, you might have to run different commands on your system.
- Clone the eDOS repository with
git clone https://github.com/iiPythonx/edos- If you don't have Git installed, you can also download the ZIP
- The rest of these steps assume you have also entered the cloned
edosfolder
- Ensure that Python Magic is setup correctly on your system
- You can do this by running
python3 -c 'import modules.magic' - Windows users will need to remove the
modules/magicfolder and replace it with an install of python-magic-bin.
- You can do this by running
After eDOS is setup, running it is as simple as launching launch.py.
If you're having issues with disk building, you can specify the --use-disk-folder parameter, which will load the filesystem directly rather than building disk.edos.