Sylphide OS targets microcontroller-based computers
Technology · First reported 29 Oct, 20:59 · Updated 00:09
Sylphide OS is an open-hardware and software project for building a computer-like environment on microcontroller boards that generally cannot run Linux. Its version 0.1 has a graphical interface and support for three hardware targets plus an emulator; storage, networking and other features are planned.
- The project aims to give microcontroller boards with keyboard, display and storage a computer-like environment, despite their constrained resources.
- Version 0.1 includes a graphical desktop, window manager, rendering framework and drivers for three targets, as well as a Linux-hosted emulator.
- Storage, networking, interface widgets and loading external programs are listed as planned features, not current capabilities.
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- Current version
- 0.1
- Hardware targets
- Olimex esp32-p4-pc, Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and FabGL; a Linux-hosted emulator is also available.
- Underlying kernel
- FreeRTOS
- Developer
- Thomas Capricelli
- Planned features
- Storage, networking, interface widgets and loading external programs
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