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.

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

• node-os.com
• quick start tutorial
• build from source with docker
• view packages for node-os on npkg.org

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.

• Please first Install Docker

• One Liner

  sudo docker run -t -i nodeos/nodeos
  

• or learn how to make a Custom Build

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

git clone [email protected]:NodeOS/Docker-NodeOS.git
cd Docker-NodeOS
./build

The steps are similar to Docker ones, just type

PLATFORM=qemu ./build