Technical

This folder contains technical documents which essential describe low-level parts of NightOS.

• The controller - permissions management system
• Developer mode - enable powerful development options
• File formats - description of all native file formats
• Filesystem Abstraction Layer - how the system ensures specific features on less powerful filesystems
• Integrity checker - ensure the system hasn't been corrupted
• I/O manager - manage input/output requests
• Inter-process communication - communication between processes
• Multi-platform management - how the NightOS ecosystem can be used on other operating systems
• Performances - system tweaks used to optimize general and specific-case performances
• Pre-compiling applications - pre-compiling applications to improve installation time and size
• Processes - low-level view of how code runs in a concurrent way
• The registry - configure the system's behaviour and features
• Services - special processes that run in the background and allow other applications to perform specific tasks
• The shell - the de-facto way to run complex and/or automatized tasks on NightOS