lifebloodOS public release!
2025-09-09
written by Niko Viau-Chow-Stuart (Founder)
hello everynyan! wow it's been a bit, oops...
i like to keep promises, and also never drop any projects that i say i'm working on (as proof of this fact, the vap kernel still gets internal git pushes!)
something we announced awhile ago that we unfortunately have not given as much information on as we'd like is lifeblood! that cheap risc v devkit we announced back in april!
with my life currently being quite busy with college, we had an internal meeting among our developers as well as some friends close to the company on what out of our work-in-progress internal projects we should focus on, and lifeblood won by around a single vote! (to be fair, it won the entire vote of the people outside the company, but adjusted for the value of internal company votes it just barely got above asklyphe, which means hopefully some work will be done on that as well soon!)
since then, i've been doing my best to bring lifeblood os, the operating system that would be shipped with lifeblood computers, as far as possible; and what we've released, while still in a very early stage, should hopefully be enough to start developing basic stuff for the system!
currently, since we don't have any devkits that you can buy, you're limited to running the operating system in qemu's virt riscv32 board, which is unfortunate (but we hope to remedy this fact as soon as we can!)
the operating system, as stated earlier, is also still in an incredibly early state, and unless you have experience in low level system programming, you may have a bit of trouble getting your code on the OS
however! if you are either experienced, or just the curious type, the source code is now fully available on our git! (https://forge.voremicrocomputers.com/Vore_Microcomputers/lifeblood_os)
if you're interested in talking to other vore microcomputers fans, we have a discord you can join (yeah i know, we'll try not to limit any information to it) at https://discord.gg/YqUuCbxVsS
unfortunately, while that's all for now, we hope that this will be a great start to the public release of the lifeblood project! hopefully we'll have some more cool stuff to show off soon! (or in 5 months, who knows at this point lol)
as always, happy voring (:
image made by @cathodegaytube!