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ANYKS OS

An operating system not written on top of Linux: its own kernel, its own memory model, its own networking and cryptography. Data centres first, then workstations, Elbrus processors and mobile devices.

Four stepsInterface
01 Sovereignty

A “national OS” today means someone else's kernel

Almost everything called a Russian operating system is a Linux build. The kernel is written by thousands of people in another jurisdiction, patches are accepted elsewhere, and the roadmap is set by someone else's community. Swapping one distribution for another changes nothing: the foundation stays the same.

What existsWhy it isn't enough
Astra, RED OS and othersLinux distributions: a foreign kernel
Aurorabought and adapted rather than written
KasperskyOSoriginal and interesting, but adoption is slow
Phantom OSa world-class idea — and development has stopped

What is open is not the technology but the combination: a system written from scratch, brought to industrial quality and deployed where it is actually needed.

02 Foundation

A system that never needs to “save”

The idea comes from Phantom OS, a Russian project where memory survives power-off, program objects live in a managed environment and garbage collection works at the system level. We take the idea and the experience, mistakes included, and write the kernel, drivers, networking, cryptography and graphics anew, to industrial standards.

Power loss

A normal system boots from scratch: load, recover, check. Here work resumes from the same point.

System update

Not “stop, update, start, wait for warm-up”, but continuing with the saved state.

Node failure

Application state is part of the system, not something each application puts into a database itself.

03 Strategy

Four steps, not an assault on the desktop market

StepWhat must workFor whom
1 · Data centrekernel, networking, storage, isolation, management, monitoringdata centres, telecom operators
2 · Workstationsgraphical environment, browser, documents, mail, printingorganisations required to replace foreign software
3 · Elbrusnative build of the system and applications for the architecturemakers of Russian hardware
4 · Mobiletouch shell, communications, secure exchangeagencies and enterprises with closed networks

In a data centre the list of required software is measured in dozens, not millions — a new system is complete there from day one. We don't promise to repeat thirty years of the world's software; we cover the list that is vital.

04 Elbrus

A national processor deserves a national system

Today Elbrus runs a system built on a foreign kernel, and much of the software goes through a compatibility layer. Sovereignty doesn't come in halves: if the processor is ours and the system isn't, independence reaches exactly as far as access to the foreign kernel.

  • Native build instead of translation — the system and applications are compiled for the architecture directly.
  • Architecture for the compiler — Elbrus shines through ahead-of-time instruction scheduling, and that is a system-level decision.
  • Groundwork exists: A-NTS builds with lcc and runs on Elbrus-8C2.
05 Software

The vital list is finite

For the data centre and developers

  • web server and application service
  • storage and backup
  • databases, logs, monitoring
  • compilers, editor, debugger, version control

For the workplace, and a bridge to everything else

  • browser, documents and spreadsheets, mail, printing
  • POSIX compatibility layer
  • running programs in isolation
  • porting source by rebuilding
06 Interface

Two works we look up to

These are not our screenshots. They are two environments that set the direction: the living keyboard-driven Omarchy and the 3D desktop Project Looking Glass, shown by Sun Microsystems more than twenty years ago and never brought to users. We take the approach, not the look.

Omarchy desktop
Omarchy — tiling layout, everything from the keyboard, one theme across the system. Screenshot of the Omarchy project, published by its authors.
Project Looking Glass, Sun Microsystems
Project Looking Glass, Sun Microsystems — windows live in 3D space and turn around to show their settings.
07 Mock-up

A workspace you want to work in

A keyboard-driven tiling environment: no dragging windows with the mouse, one consistent look, instant response. For overview and switching — a 3D space where desktops stand in depth.

1234ANYKS OSCPU 12% · RAM 3.2G · NET 118 MB/s · 14:20

Terminal

$ anyks status
kernel   running · 41 days
memory   persistent, snapshot 12 s ago
nodes    18/18 online
network  AWH · HTTP/3 · A-NTS

$ anyks restart service.web
state preserved · ready in 40 ms

Monitoring

requests/s  148,200
latency     0.42 ms
failures    0

Editor · service.lua

function route(req)
  return {code = 200}
end
SUPER+ENTER windowSUPER+1..4 desktopSUPER+F full screenSUPER+K search
08 Groundwork

Half of the system is already written

An operating system is more than a kernel: networking, cryptography, storage, data formats, an application runtime. We have all of it — written, measured and running on twelve systems.

Usually someone writing their own OS starts from zero and hits networking and cryptography in year three. We start where others stop.