A little operating system with big ideas

Hello, Australis.
A whole new world to explore.

Welcome to Australis OS — an operating system built from the ground up with Hydrogen. Get to know the project, explore its early capabilities, and discover how every part fits together.

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Australis is an experimental OS, not a finished desktop product. What can it do today?

Australis OS · PreviewOS

CONCEPT PREVIEW · NOT AN ACTUAL OS SCREENSHOT❯ Welcome to Australis

Made to explore ✳

What's Australis?

A from-scratch operating system built with the Hydrogen programming language. Its own bootloader, kernel, filesystem and applications are being developed step by step. For now, it's best explored in a virtual machine.

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A good place to begin

Explore at your own pace

Small steps, approachable guides, and a little curiosity. No operating-system experience needed.

01 · GET READY

Your first boot

Set up the development tools and start Australis safely inside QEMU.

Start here 02 · SAY HELLO

Explore the system

Discover the command shell and see what's already working.

Take a tour 03 · LOOK INSIDE

How it works

Learn about the bootloader, kernel, filesystem and applications.

Explore architecture

A peek behind the scenes

Australis, one step at a time

Follow the graphical environment, shell and startup process. Real screenshots appear here when verified captures are added; other previews are clearly labelled illustrations.

01DesktopILLUSTRATION · NO SCREENSHOT YET

Illustrative preview · Graphical environment