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Sculpt OS version 23.04

(published in April 2023)

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 the live components view (shown), a file browser, and network connectivity. The interactive graph in the center presents the system components with their relationships and allows the user to interactively add/remove components offered by federated software providers.

Instructions

Sculpt 23.04 documentation (printable version)

Download disk image

sculpt-23-04.img (29 MiB) (signature)

SHA256 48cf9d85bcce5db657c1572372da75c247a91e2116f438a8b350bc6908ec71d2

Mobile-OS version

An early 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-23-04.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-23-04.ova (signature) appliance that contains the Sculpt 23.04 image along with a known-to-work VirtualBox configuration.

    SHA256 9912553a59709aec8ffa36ab21514016a765115a9be518193a4328a177445a78

  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 23.04 in Qemu

You may take the following command line as starting point for experimenting with Sculpt 23.04 on the Qemu emulator. 

 qemu-system-x86_64 -display sdl -cpu core2duo -machine q35 \
                    -m 1024 -drive format=raw,file=sculpt-23-04.img \
                    -netdev user,id=net0 -device e1000,netdev=net0

Previous versions

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

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