User's Guide

This is the user's guide to HelenOS. It starts from the very basics (like downloading and your first boot), teaches you the basics of using HelenOS (console, shell, etc.) and progresses to more advanced topics.

Read this guide carefully before posting questions to the mailing list.

This guide is not complete and always in need of improvements.

Basic Topics

Quick Start	Quick and easy way to get HelenOS up and running in close to no time.
Running in QEMU	How to run HelenOS in QEMU on different architectures.
Running in VirtualBox	How to run HelenOS in VirtualBox.
Running on SPARC	How to boot HelenOS on SPARC
GUI	Moving virtual terminals around.
Console	Switching VCs. Mostly. (obsolete)
Shell	Your best friend. The primary way to control the system.
Text Editor	Standard issue. Insert, Delete, Copy, Paste, Save, Load and Quit
Common Text Editing Keys	If it can edit text, it supports these controls.
Command Reference	List of commands you can run from the shell.

Intermediate Topics

Tasks, Monitoring	See what is running on the system, killing tasks
Services and Devices	Introduction to Services and Devices
Disks and File Systems	-WIP-
Networking	Configuring and using TCP/IP networking
Audio	Audio devices and applications
Installing to hard disk	Experimental

Advanced Topics

If you never ran HelenOS before, you clearly are in the wrong chapter.

Kernel Console	Kernel hacker's penultimate tool to debugging the system.
Compiling From Source	If you do, read this very carefully!