Alloy is the middleware/interface to the BareMetal kernel.

It's a full-color shell interface that supports active user command highlighting.

Alloy supports building on Linux.

It requires a full-color terminal to display properly.

To build it, enter the directory of the project and run these commands.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .
./src/alloy

You should type clear after starting Alloy, to get rid of the current screen content.

If you're building it for BareMetal, you'll need FreeType installed.

On Ubuntu, you'd install it like this:

sudo apt install libfreetype6-dev

Otherwise, you just need CMake and a build system that CMake supports, like GNU Make.