node-os

Lightweight operating system using Node.js as userspace.

Node-os wants to bring npm to the entire system. Any package in npm is a node-os package, which at last count was 94,070 packages. The goal of node-os is to provide just enough to let npm provide the rest. Since anyone can contribute to npm, anyone can create node-os packages.

find us

Web: please use github issues for discussion
IRC: join #node-os on Freenode

state of the union

introduction

NodeOS is a Node.js based operating system, built off of the Linux kernel. The eventual goal of NodeOS is to produce images that can be run on

hardware
cloud providers like Joyent/Amazon/Rackspace
local virtual machines, like VirtualBox, VMWare, and KVM
PaaS providers like Heroku, or Joyent's Manta
container providers, like Docker

Core development is being done in layers:

Layer-0 provides the boot loader and kernel (currently provided by Docker)
Layer-1 provides the basic Linux structure
Layer-2 provides the Node.js binary and its required shared libraries
Layer-3 provides the core NodeOS additions, like the bootstrapping script
Layer-4 is for customizing distributions, like the init daemon and package manager

If you are hacking on NodeOS, you are likely building Layer-4 images. Layer-4 images can be build entirely from a Dockerfile, where as the other layers require more finesse.

NodeOS on Docker

Please first Install Docker

Quick Start

One Liner
```
sudo docker run -t -i nodeos/nodeos
```
or learn how to make a Custom Build

Build from Source

Warning: the build process is hairy, it prob. won't work the first time. I'm working on that.

git clone git@github.com:NodeOS/Docker-NodeOS.git
cd Docker-NodeOS
./build

NodeOS on QEmu

The steps are similar to Docker ones, just type

PLATFORM=qemu ./build

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