Nanvix is a Unix-like operating system written by Pedro H. Penna for educational purposes. It is designed to be simple and small, but also modern and fully featured.

Nanvix targets 32-bit x86-based PCs and only requires a floppy or CD-ROM drive and 16 MB of RAM. You can run it either in a real PC or in a virtual machine, using a Live System's Image.

In order to build Nanvix, you will need a Linux like programming environment, the x86 GCC compiler and the x86 GNU binutils.

TIP: If you are running a Debian-based Linux distribution, like Ubuntu, you can simply run the tools/dev/setup-toolchain.sh script.

Once you have setup the required tools, you should set the environment variable $TARGET to point to the toolchain's directory.

When done, you can build Nanvix by typing, at the root directory:

$ make nanvix

Or you can build a Live System's Image by typing, at the same directory:

$ make image

Note that for build a image you may require priveleged access.

Nanvix is a free software that is under the GPL V3 license and is maintained by Pedro H. Penna. Any questions or suggestions send him an email: [email protected]