Basic information

Phantom is a relatively free unix based operating system with several extra features. Born in 1998, nowadays designed only for i386, suppossed to be small and easy to use. It's a good example of how not to write a new OS. Source codes are fully available.

This page provides Phantom 1.09d which is today (11.11.2003) a bit old as it's almost two years untouched. Phantom 1.10d is differs a lot from 1.09d and its name is kept for historical and nostalgic reasons.

Written by Ondra Havel. "d" stands for time-to-time development (approx. only week per year now). Due to actual lack of time the "development" slowed down significantly.

List of most possitive features folows.

• Multiple text consoles (up to 1.09d)
• VGA framebuffer device (1.10d)
• working kernel space memory manager
• fine working preemptive multitasking
• virtual filesystem interface
• fat based filesystems driver - FAT12, 16 and 32
• not so bad buffer cache
• floppy driver, IDE hd driver
• cs4232, soundblaster drivers, kernel level sound mixer (ugly)
• ATAPI devices (currently working with zip100 drives)
• PCI support
• beginning of TCP/IP implementation (+ extra ported ne2000 card driver)
• standard libC yet incomplete implementation
• truly client/server window manager RedGui (1.10d)
• unix sockets implementation

For successfull make you need NASM (Netwide ASseMbler).

If you would like to see Phantom in action I'd recommend you Bochs the i386 emulator.