not-os

not-os is a minimal OS based on the Linux kernel, coreutils, runit, and Nix. It is also the build script, written in Nix expressions, to build such OS.

This is a project of Michael Bishop (cleverca22 on GitHub, clever on IRC). I modified it just a bit to make it possible to generate this documentation.

As a build tool, not-os uses nixpkgs and in particular the NixOS module system to build the three main components of a Linux-based operating system: