Karnl is an open-source kernel primarily written in Zig.
It began as a personal project to learn more about low-level systems programming and to suffer have fun building a kernel from scratch.

• ✅ VGA text-mode output
• ✅ VERY basic keyboard I/O support
• 🚧 More features coming soon...

⚠️ Note:
Karnl is still in the very early stages of development — it currently doesn't have allocators, a filesystem, or much else… yet!

• Zig — tested with 0.14.0+
• QEMU
• A Unix-like environment (Linux, macOS, or WSL recommended)

⚠️ Note:
Currently, Karnl is best supported on Linux/Unix environments.
Windows support is planned for upcoming updates — or feel free to contribute if you'd like to help bring it earlier!

Clone the repo and run build.sh:

git clone https://github.com/DustoGuss/karnl.git
cd karnl
./build.sh # or chmod +x build.sh & ./build.sh

• OSDev Wiki
• Pluto

Karnl is under the MIT License — so feel free to fork it, modify it, and build cool things with it.