This is an experimental spin-off / distribution of ToaruOS which includes no third-party components. ## Rationale ToaruOS's kernel is entirely in-house. Its userspace, however, is built on several third-party libraries and tools, such as the Newlib C library, Freetype, Cairo, libpng, and most notably Python. While the decision to build ToaruOS on these technologies is not at all considered a mistake, the possibility remains to build a userspace entirely from scratch. ## Goals - **Write a basic C library.** To support building the native ToaruOS libraries and port some basic software, a rudimentary C library is required. - **Remove Cairo as a dependency for the compositor.** Cairo is a major component of the modern ToaruOS compositor, but is the only significant third-party dependency. This makes the compositor, which is a key part of what makes ToaruOS "ToaruOS", an important inclusion in this project. - **Write a vector font library.** Support for TrueType/OpenType TBD, but vector fonts are critical to the visual presentation of ToaruOS. - **Support a compressed image format.** ToaruOS used a lot of PNGs, but maybe writing our format would be fun. ## Roadmap 1. Enough C to port the dynamic loader. 2. Get the VGA terminal building. 3. Get the shell running. 4. De-Cairo-tize the compositor.