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Update README for the 1.0 release.

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The Sortix Operating System
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Sortix is a small self-hosting Unix-like operating system developed since 2011
aiming to be a clean and modern POSIX implementation. There's a lot of technical
debt that needs to be paid, but it's getting better. Traditional design mistakes
are avoided or aggressively deprecated by updating the base system and ports as
needed. The Sortix kernel, standard libraries, and most utilities were written
entirely from scratch. The system is halfway through becoming multi-user and
while security vulnerabilities are recognized as bugs, it should be considered
insecure at this time.
Sortix is a small self-hosting operating-system aiming to be a clean and modern
POSIX implementation. It is a hobbyist operating system written from scratch
with its own base system, including kernel and standard library, as well as
ports of third party software. It has a straightforward installer and is can be
developed under itself. Releases come with the source code in /src, ready for
tinkering.
Links
-----
For more information, documentation and news, please visit the official website:
https://sortix.org/
You can also download the newest release and cutting edge nightly builds at:
https://users-cs.au.dk/sortie/sortix/release/
You can retrieve the current git master from our project page at:
https://gitlab.com/sortix/sortix
System Requirements
-------------------
Sortix has low system requirements. It also works well under virtual machines
such as VirtualBox and Qemu:
* A 32-bit x86 (with SSE) or 64-bit x86_64 CPU.
* A few dozen megabytes of RAM - or if you are using a cdrom release with ports
then you likely need at least twice the size of the cdrom image.
* A harddisk or cdrom drive or support for booting from USB.
* A multiboot compliant bootloader if booting from harddisk.
* ATA or AHCI harddisk.
It has been in development since 2011 by a single developer and contributors.
Though the system is stable and capable right now, it is still early in
development, and a number of crucial features haven't been made yet. Releases
are made yearly and future releases will add features such as networking, SMP,
and USB that were skipped in favor of becoming self-hosting now.
Documentation
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The system is documented as manual pages. Introductory system usage is covered
in the user-guide(7) manual page.
Links
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For more information, please visit the official website:
https://sortix.org/
Building Sortix
---------------
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Copyright 2011-2016 Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen and contributors.
Sortix is free software licensed under the ISC license as described in the
LICENSE file. It also contains permissively licensed code from other projects.
LICENSE file. It also contains permissively licensed code from other projects.