Vinix – A modern operating system written in V
Summary
Vinix is a minimal, monolithic operating system written from scratch in the V language, designed to run Alpine Linux binaries natively without Linux underneath. It emphasizes speed, small resource usage (about 100 MB RAM at boot and 1 GB disk after install), and optional per-app sandboxing, with a focus on a single desktop experience and no systemd. The project targets Apple Silicon Macs (starting with M1) and uses Limine as the bootloader, with a built-in pkg package manager for Alpine repositories; it remains in alpha and not suitable for production yet.