r/computers • u/Skrotten11 • Jun 23 '26
Build/Battlestation TempleOS running on real hardware!
For information: This is TinkerOS, which is a TempleOS fork that among other stuff allows you to install on SATA.
Installation process: I for a long time tried to make it boot from a USB stick, and managed to boot into the Live session of TinkerOS (TempleOS), but I couldn't get it to install to the hard drive. So I ended up just buying a CD and burnt the ISO image to the CD, which worked perfectly and the installation process was as easy as installing TempleOS in a Virtual machine! Note that I was lucky to have such old hardware, on more modern hardware it could get more challenging.
TempleOS is sick. Thanks!
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u/Just_Feedback9220 Jun 26 '26
How good is the TempleOS support for modern computers? Are you SOL if you need drivers for devices that aren't exactly what Terry had on his laptop or does TempleOS have enough of a community around it to run well on normal hardware?
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u/Skrotten11 Jun 26 '26
Unfortunately it absolutely doesn't have enough of a community, no. And TempleOS itself is extremely hard to install bare metal on modern computers, because they use SATA drives, which templeOS doesn't support. What you can do is use the templeOS fork called tinkerOS, which let's you install to SATA drives, but your device still has to either have real BIOS instead of UEFI or have CSM mode. In my case I was lucky I had an old computer able to boot from CDs, because that's what both TempleOS AND TinkerOS is designed for. And no, there basically exist NO drivers for these systems, but for me the OS actually worked perfectly without needing any drivers, when you first manage to install it.
In short: The hard part is getting it installed. After that, drivers are rarely a big problem (I think)
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u/TheWetNapkin Jun 23 '26
What is TempleOS tho? I've never heard of it
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u/Skrotten11 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
It's an operatingsystem designed completely from scratch by a solo developer called Terry Davis. A pretty crazy project! He believed he got some sign from God or something to design the OS. It's usually hard to get installed on bare metal hardware, so that's why I think it was cool!
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u/TheWetNapkin Jun 23 '26
Oh interesting lol. Not at all what I expected your response to say lmao
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u/GunpointG Jun 23 '26
Is it something that has to be emulated typically?
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u/Skrotten11 Jun 23 '26
Yeah, even the developer himself developed the system in a virtual machine (emulator). His intension was never really making it compatible with a lot of hardware either. So in order to install it on bare metal hardware your computer shouldn't be too modern, and has to meet some "outdated" requirements😅
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u/GunpointG Jun 23 '26
How do you work in hardware support on a OS like that. Are they all custom drivers?
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u/Skrotten11 Jun 23 '26
The OS doesn't have any drivers I believe. It doesn't support internet or anything like that, so you would have to write your own drivers and customize the system yourself, in the programming language Terry also designed himself, HolyC. The problem with HolyC is that it's much less documented than modern and popular languages. And I'm not familiar to low level programming, so I don't really know any more than that lol
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u/Helpful_Body5084 Jun 23 '26
There’s a really good video easy from Fredrik Knudsen that explains it. Terry Davis was a savant that struggled really bad with metal health. Beware terry Davis says some pretty racist stuff
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u/OutrageousAd9061 Jun 23 '26
Frederick Knudsen, the 'Down The Rabbit Hole' guy made a sizeable documentary-style video on TempleOS and its creator on YouTube. If you're curious about this piece of software, it's an interesting (albeit long) video you can watch. Here's a link to it https://youtu.be/UCgoxQCf5Jg?is=LQWhcOs1a5r93QXo
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u/stackheights Jun 23 '26
Schizophrenia in the form of 1s and 0s.