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Sculpt OS version 24.04

(published in April 2024)

Sculpt is an open-source general-purpose OS. It combines Genode's microkernel architecture, capability-based security, sandboxed device drivers, and virtual machines in a novel operating system for commodity PC hardware and the PinePhone. Sculpt is used as day-to-day OS by the Genode developers.

The administrative user interface ("Leitzentrale"): The panel at the top gives access to a live view of the system structure (shown), a file browser, network connectivity, power control, and system update/rollback. The interactive graph at the center presents the running components with their relationships and allows the user to interactively add/remove components offered by Genode Labs and federated software providers.

Instructions

Sculpt 24.04 documentation (printable version)

Download disk image

sculpt-24-04.img (30 MiB) (signature, public key)

SHA256 ca696e8755e71e64d0db85c2e5ee092994a226fe0b64944b6979bfc3129f6923

Mobile-OS version

An experimental phone variant of Sculpt OS tailored for the PinePhone is available at https://depot.genode.org/genodelabs/image. Information about installing and using this variant are available in the form of a dedicated article at https://genodians.org.

Preparing a bootable USB stick on Unix

On Unix-based systems, use the dd command to copy the disk image to a USB stick: 

 sudo dd if=sculpt-24-04.img of=/dev/sdx bs=1M conv=fsync

Here, /dev/sdx refers to the device node of your USB stick. To determine it, you may inspect the output of dmesg after plugging it in.

Preparing a bootable USB stick on MS Windows

Option 1: Rufus

  1. Download and run Rufus (alternative portable executable available)

  2. Plug in your USB thumb drive and select it under "Device"

  3. Download the Sculpt OS image linked above and select it under "Boot selection"

  4. Write to the USB drive by clicking "START"

Option 2: Win32 Disk Imager

  1. Download, install, and run Win32 Disk Imager

  2. Download the Sculpt OS image linked above and select under "Image file"

  3. Plug in your USB thumb drive and select it under "Device"

  4. Write to the USB drive by clicking "Write"

Running Sculpt as VirtualBox appliance

  1. Download the sculpt-24-04.ova (signature) appliance that contains the Sculpt 24.04 image along with a known-to-work VirtualBox configuration.

    SHA256 9e8598ed956fdf4b2df243860151e184dcacbb8b6800ef8b7f247b1cbfe3b159

  2. Start VirtualBox and import the OVA file as appliance.

  3. After boot, you will be presented with two disks, the boot disk and an empty disk as playground. You may format the latter using Sculpt's user interface.

Running Sculpt 24.04 in Qemu

You may take the following command line as starting point for experimenting with Sculpt 24.04 on the Qemu emulator. 

 qemu-system-x86_64 -display sdl -cpu Nehalem-v2 -machine q35 \
                    -m 1024 -drive format=raw,file=sculpt-24-04.img \
                    -netdev user,id=net0 -device e1000,netdev=net0

For better performance, you may also try the options -accel kvm -cpu host.

Previous versions

All previous releases are available at the dedicated Sculpt OS archive page.

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