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Sanos

Sanos is a minimalistic 32-bit x86 OS kernel for network server appliances running on standard PC hardware. The kernel implements basic operating system services like booting, memory management, thread scheduling, local and remote file systems, TCP/IP networking, and DLL loading and linking.

A Win32 layer allows the standard HotSpot JVM to run, essentially providing a JavaOS platform for server applications. It can also be used as a small kernel for embedded network server applications written in C. Sanos has a standard POSIX based API and an ANSI Standard C runtime library.

The kernel was initially developed as part of an experiment on investigating the feasibility of running java server applications without a traditional operating system only using a simple kernel. The sanos kernel is open source and released under a general BSD software license.

News

Apr 28, 2012: You can now contribute more easily to sanos with the new public git sanos repository.

Apr 8, 2012: Sanos is now self-contained in the sense that is can build itself.

Mar 8, 2012: Sanos version 1.3.4 released (10 year anniversary edition).

Jan 6, 2012: Sanos now supports virtio network and block devices.

Dec 27, 2011: The browsable Sanos source code has been updated using the new ctohtml utility.

Dec 22, 2011: New release of the Sanos SDK that can compile itself under sanos.

Dec 28, 2008: Sanos now runs on JPC, a pure Java PC emulator.

Mar 4, 2008: Search moved to Google Search.

Apr 10, 2007: Forum for discussing sanos added to site.

Apr 5, 2007: New Feedback page.

Mar 11, 2007: Home page redesigned.