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Hello OSDev community,

I'd like to introduce HavenDOS, an experimental 32-bit x86 operating system that I'm developing independently under Tech Haven Studios.

HavenDOS is written from scratch in C and Assembly and uses a monolithic kernel. The project focuses on low-level operating system development, hardware interaction and building a usable text-based environment.

Current release: 0.8.8.1 – Helios (Beta)

Some implemented features include:

32-bit x86 monolithic kernel

Text-mode console environment

PS/2 mouse support and registered USB HID mouse support

USB device detection

Read-only exFAT volume support

Persistent console grid settings

Built-in system utilities

Experimental hardware detection

Testing

The current release documentation reports 4,062 suite checks and 32 QEMU boot checks. These are software test results, not a claim of compatibility with all physical hardware.

HavenDOS is still under active development. Some features remain incomplete, and hardware compatibility testing is ongoing.

Project links

Website: https://techhavenstudios.lovable.app

GitHub: https://github.com/MGKFN/HavenDOS

I'd appreciate feedback from other OS developers, especially regarding kernel design, hardware support and potential compatibility issues.

Thanks for reading!

Why is your source code in a .zip?

So people can DOWNLAOD it easier and to save Resources

Git already compresses deltas when you clone a repo. And this way we don't get the histories of the files. This is not how you're supposed to use git. Plus I highly doubt your OS is that huge already.

It isn’t even that big it’s hobby maybe 10/20 users max, I’m doing the source upload when home from work. If you wanna try HavenDOS use the download on Website and use qemu or smth similar

MGKFN wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2026 11:13 pm So people can DOWNLAOD it easier and to save Resources

That makes no sense. GitHub already has an option to download a zip of a repository, if you want to, and is far more efficient when updating versions. It also allows people to browse a single source file without having to download everything. Git is far less resource intensive than single zip files.

Okay, I’ll do later but my source folder has more then 100 files so GitHub won’t do it bc to many files

There’s no limit to the number of files in a GitHub repository, and little limit on the repository size, but for more than 100 files you may need to use the cli command rather than GitHub’s web interface. I’d always use the cli commands anyway as it’s much easier than drag and dropping loads of files and more easily automated to single commands.