Axel

Operating System

From mopp·Updated June 1, 2026·View on GitHub·

Axel is general purpose operating system which is written by [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/) and some assembly languages([nasm](http://www.nasm.us/), ARM assembly). The current OS architecture is monolithic kernel. The project is written primarily in Rust, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2013. Key topics include: nasm, operating-system, os, x86-64.

Axel

Axel Accelerates All For Me !

Axel is general purpose operating system which is written by Rust and some assembly languages(nasm, ARM assembly).
The current OS architecture is monolithic kernel.

Support architecture

x86_32
x86_64
arm6 (Raspberry pi zero)

Requirements

We need some tools to build Axel.

gcc
binutils
rust (nightly)
xargo
nasm
qemu
ld
make
grub

In case of Arch Linux, you can install these software easily to execute below commands.

console
# For ARM architecture.
yaourt -S arm-none-eabi-binutils arm-none-eabi-gcc arm-none-eabi-newlib

# For x86_32 architecture.
yaourt -S gcc-multilib nasm qemu