[Cryogenica]

I'm currently working on an x86-64 (64-bit only, no 32-bit) operating system, which will be targeted at physical and remote exploitation. The OS will NOT be Linux-based and will be coded mostly, if not entirely, in assembly. If you would like to contribute, I'm open to letting people (a) develop for the OS, or (b) test the OS and look for bugs, in exchange for receiving support for your machine.

The OS will not be similar to existing Linux distros, such as Kali, due to the fact that it will provide the user with significantly lower-level access to the hardware more easily. It will not be a daily-use OS, but it will contain the features necessary to safeguard any data stored on the system, including full-disk-encryption using the user's choice of algorithms, along with protection against exploits run against itself (assuming proper user practice).

If you're interested in making this a reality, reply to this thread explaining how you could help and what your experience is. I want to have as many qualified developers working on this as practical, so if you're qualified, you'll almost certainly get a chance to work on it.

As I said, anyone I approve to help who either develops or tests the system, will get hardware support for their system guaranteed in the release versions, even if they get a new system.

[M00N66]

I'll test it for free. This is extremely interesting and I kinda just wanna see where it goes.

[Cryogenica]

I'll test it for free. This is extremely interesting and I kinda just wanna see where it goes.

Thankyou for your support, I have sent you a PM with details about how you can help!

[Hoss]

I don't mean to shoot you down, but it doesn't sound like you truly understand the scope of work ahead of yourself.

"The OS will NOT be Linux-based and will be coded mostly, if not entirely, in assembly" and "The OS will not be similar to existing Linux distros, such as Kali"
This seams to me like you are planning on starting from the kernel an working up (lots of work).

"due to the fact that it will provide the user with significantly lower-level access to the hardware more easily"
This tells me you don't really understand operating system development or Kali for that matter as all Kali does is provide a collection of tools.

Still, if you're set on do this, check out https://wiki.osdev.org it's a good resource and will probably tell you some of the same things I just did.

[Num5kull]

Good luck to you ! I'm still wrapping my head around Linux from scratch lol

[Vultra]

@"phyrrus9" would you be interested? haha

Spoiler:

this was sarcasm

[phyrrus9]

@"phyrrus9" would you be interested? haha

Spoiler:

this was sarcasm

Not really. I've heard this pitch over and over again. Everybody thinks they have what it takes to write an operating system, but few succeed. OP may want to google "BareMetal-OS" and use that for reference, if not just basing it off of that.

Linux has pretty close hardware access, there are devices in /dev for everything on the computer, and if something isn't present there, but you know it's major and minor numbers, you can just mknod it and it will show up. The difference is linux doesn't provide any sort of drivers for /dev components. I doubt OP will be writing these for common field laptops in this sort of category (usually macbook pros).

[d4kota]

This is great.
Good luck with that.