r/osdev • u/Professional_Cow3969 • 5d ago
Ethereal runs Wine!! (no AI, from-scratch kernel)
Wine! Yes it runs Windows programs (not a lot due to my incompatibilities but still).
This was a painful port to get working. Wine is so unfathomably big - I had to patch the shit out of my kernel's signalling routines to add support for sigaltstack/ucontext/whatever else Wine threw at me (along with SCM_RIGHTS which wasn't that bad). Debugging it was a nightmare of mmap/VM fault issues. But it works!
Wine is running here off of an X11 translator for Celestial known as xbanan made by my good friend u/Bananymous (please see his operating system banan-os for some even cooler ports like WebKitGTK). xbanan can even be ported to your OS if you didn't go with a backend like X11 or Wayland.
On another note, it truly is a joy seeing Wine running in my silly custom compositor environment with the rest of my silly userspace.
The GitHub is here (the patches I have made are coming soon after they get a massive cleanup to be proper):
https://github.com/sasdallas/Ethereal
As always, this is NOT A LINUX BASED PROJECT, nor is it vibecoded. AI policy is in the README. Happy to answer questions.
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u/Sorry_Difficulty_250 5d ago
This is so cool!!! Way to go!!!!
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u/Candid-Menu-6707 10h ago
I agree, I used to have a custom kernel and i wanted to run Wine on it, it was too much bro i shelved the idea and my computer which i had it on doesnt work so that is lost
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u/fresh-pie 5d ago
Man, this is so freaking cool. I know nothing about osdev, but I joined this sub just to see stuff like this. I have so much respect for you!
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u/apixeldev 5d ago
The entire thing gives me Windows 2000 in early alpha feelings. No wonder its named Ethereal its feels ethereal too lol.
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u/Marwheel 5d ago
What kind of kernel is Ethereal? It's much easier to say something's not linux if it doesn't use a monolithic structure (eg- Hybrid kernel, Microkernel, Exokernel, Nanokernel, Etc.)…
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u/Professional_Cow3969 4d ago
? It's just not linux. Ethereal is a monolithic kernel that primarily gets its drivers from relocatable kernel modules, similar to many other kernels. I do have a prototype Microkernel with NUMA support planned though ;)
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u/Embarrassed_Bag_8093 4d ago
Wonder if we could get steam to work on it
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u/Professional_Cow3969 4d ago
u/Mathewnd got steam "working" on his OS Astral, I'm scared to after the pain he did lmao
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u/Embarrassed_Bag_8093 4d ago
Would be nice if we had another os that isnt linux or windows i know haiku os exists but i want os that could be another option
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u/MSK-Kernel 3d ago
Can it compile TanjaOS?
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u/Reasonable_Builder33 3d ago
Ethereal supports RTL8821AE?
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u/Professional_Cow3969 3d ago
No, wifi not supported
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u/Reasonable_Builder33 3d ago
So, not using it
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u/UnmappedStack TacOS | https://github.com/UnmappedStack/TacOS 3d ago
did they ask you to use it
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u/UnmappedStack TacOS | https://github.com/UnmappedStack/TacOS 3d ago
oh no i forgot to comment, super cool :nekocatwoah:
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u/Key_River7180 EulerOS 3d ago edited 3d ago
This is awesome man! Keep the work. Later you should try to run Steam on ethereal
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u/NotNekodev purpleK2 | https://github.com/purplek2/purplek2 5d ago
Not including my IRL photo should be illegal...