Crazierl - an Erlang Operating System

Crazierl is an experimental/hobby operating system based around BEAM. It’s fairly limited: 32-bit x86, BIOS boot, only two NIC drivers virtio-net and realtek 8168. But it can do dist (with the gen_tcp_dist example carrier from OTP), and you can push code over dist to hot-load in development. It also supports SMP, but it’s crashy with high core counts in qemu; there’s almost certainly several concurrency bugs in the kernel.

I’ve put up a fun browser based demo here. I don’t recommend using a phone; it does work on the phones I tested, but it’s very awkward to use. You can share a link with a hashtag with your friends and click the consent checkbox, and it (should) link up into dist and I’ve also included a chat application you can start with chat:start(). (quit chat with /quit, or use the shell menu with ctrl-g to switch between shells etc). The browser demo relies on the v86 javascript x86 virtual machine. It can also run on a real x86 system, but I’ve had mixed luck on modern systems, it uses some esoteric legacy VGA features and support for that isn’t getting better.

The IP stack is based on GitHub - rickpayne/erlang-tcpip: Erlang TCP/IP Stack · GitHub but I’ve made a fair amount of changes, so please don’t hold any bugs you see in my demo against the upstream; it’s almost certainly my fault.

Source here

(libraries seemed like the best section; although I’m not sure crazierl quite fits in this section)

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Congratulations! Now are you aware of the existing Brazilian and Californian laws, and the Colorado and New York ones in progress, that require you to do age verification, with huge fines if you do not? You need at least a notice that sownloading the software is forbiidden to people living under jurisdictions with such laws. I love that you’ve made this, and I hate that the lying loonies who pass such laws want to make life hard for you. Protect yourself.

I’ve only looked at the California law. I think I’m ok for that one, because it applies a requirement to account setup, and I don’t have any accounts. :slight_smile:

US law doesn’t apply everywhere, contrary to what people in the US think.

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