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# Dusk OS

Dusk OS is a work-in-progress operating system, whose primary purpose is to be helpful during the event of a societal collapse, but which will still likely be very useful even before it happens.

It is made mainly by Virgil Dupras, the developer of Collapse OS, as a bit «bigger» version of Collapse OS, one that's intended for the first stage of societal collapse and will be more «powerful» and comfortable to use for the price of increased complexity¹.

Dusk OS is written in Forth, but also additionally (unlike Collapse OS) includes a so called «almost C» compiler, allowing ports of already existing programs, e.g. Unix command line utilities. It can also be seen as a Forth implementation/system.

The project is available under CC0 1.0² and is a non-Unix, extremely minimalist 32 bit free as in freedom operating system.

Ssome of the interesting features of the system are:

• Written in Forth, offering simplified C compiler as its main feature.
• Portable: using simple abstract assembly to run on different architectures.
• No virtual memory.
• Preferring static memory allocation.
• 32 bit system, maximum 4 GB of memory.
• Graphics: primarily no GUI and simple graphics capabilities will be present, direct access to screen pixels (through so called «grid» interface).

# Credits and Notes

• See also: duskos.org and Gopherhole.
• Some text was made by Drummyfish, of the LRS Wiki, via Git, CC0.

This page was last edited on 2026-10-19 21:06:25.

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