README.md

Documentation

Welcome to the documentation of NightOS. This directory contains all design and specification documents of the project.

The rendered documentation can be found on https://clementnerma.github.io/NightOS.

A global, technical overview of the system's architecture can be found here.

The balancer - improve performances by balancing processes' priority
Crash saves - prevent data loss at maximum with crash-proof data saving
Domains - manage a network of computers
Encryption - encrypt the whole storage and individual user accounts
Freeze-prevention system - prevent the system from freezing when all RAM and CPU power are used
Parental control - manage children access to the computer
Permissions system - prevent applications and users from doing whatever they want
Sandboxes - isolate applications to prevent them from harming important data
Synchronization - synchronize settings between multiple computers

The list of default applications and their description can be found here.

Overview - a global overview of the system
The controller - permissions management system
Developer mode - enable powerful development options
Devices - manage hardware devices
File formats - description of all native file formats
I/O manager - manage input/output requests
Multi-platform management - how the NightOS ecosystem can be used on other operating systems
Performances - system tweaks used to optimize general and specific-case performances
Pre-compiling applications - pre-compiling applications to improve installation time and size
Processes - low-level view of how code runs in a concurrent way
The registry - configure the system's behaviour and features
Services - special processes that run in the background and allow other applications to perform specific tasks
The shell - the de-facto way to run complex and/or automatized tasks on NightOS

Applications and libraries - document describing common things between applications and libraries
Applications - how applications are structured and behave
Libraries - what are libraries
Filesystem - how the filesystem works
Storage permissions - how permissions are managed on filesystem elements
The boot process - how updates are performed
Update processes - how updates are performed
Containers - process isolation system
Permissions - list of applications' permissions
The registry - exhaustive specification of the registry's content
Vocabulary - the list of NightOS-related terms
The shell - the native shell of NightOS
Shell scripting - Hydre's scripting language
Crash saves - what are crash saves and how they are handled
Services - specifications about services work and behave
Translations - how content translation is handled

Hardware - how the kernel interacts with hardware
Memory - memory organization and management
Processes - processes concept and management
Scheduling - tasks scheduling
Data structures - data structures used by the kernel to represent things in memory
Kernel-process communication - how the kernel communicate with processes and vice-versa
Inter-process communication - communication between processes
Signals - complete specification of signals
System calls - complete specification of system calls