HorizonOS has been a technically ambitious and educational project. However, due to accumulated technical debt, heavy reliance on AI-assisted code generation, and early design decisions that no longer reflect my current standards, this repository will now be publicly archived.
Future development will continue under a new name: Lithium
→ https://github.com/lithium-os/lithium
A considerable portion of Horizon's codebase will be refactored, reorganized, and reimplemented as part of this new project.
As of the archival of this repository, the source code is permanently released as-is, where-is under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
I, the creator and rights holder of this project, hereby dedicate this work to the public domain. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, I waive all copyright and related rights to this work worldwide.
This means the project may be used, copied, modified, distributed, and performed by anyone, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without asking permission or providing attribution.
Thank you to everyone who followed or contributed to HorizonOS during its development. This project was an important step in my OSDev journey — now it's time to modernize, rebuild, and move forward with a stronger foundation.
– Wellbutteredtoast (Sam W.)