This page is dedicated to TempleOS - Bible-themed operating system written by Terry Davis. TempleOS is not just another flavor of Linux, it's a completely new operating system written from scratch. This page will contain resources and developments related to TempleOS. Terry claims he was receiving instructions from God when writing the operating system. Apart from his own reminiscences on spiritual matters which he included in the operating systems, the OS also has a number of Biblically-based programs and games. These include God Word, where you can get inspired by a random word from the Bible, and God Song - where you receive a randomly generated tune. A phrase that may be considered the slogan of the OS is - God's third temple is an operating system.
Author
TempleOS was written by late Terry Davis, a seasoned programmer who used to be one of the developers of the Commodor64 operating system, back before Windows was a company. TempleOS has some resemblences to the Commodor64 system, but is not a derivative of that system. After Terry's death, TempleOS became a sensation in the programming world, as TempleOS is truly a genius invention in many respects. From its small size, to the fact that it uses its own programming language, its own drivers, its own graphics library, 3D animations embedded into text files, and so on.
HollyC
Terry not only wrote a whole new operating system from scratch, which is a feat few people have accomplished in life, but he also developed his own programming language to write it, called HollyC. HollyC is a dialect of C, but much more light-weight, and efficient. Part of that is due to the fact that HollyC is designed only for one processor architecture, part due to the genius of the programmer. HollyC can be learned directly from inside the operating system itself. But tutorials developed by other people can also be found online.
Installation
TempleOS is designed to run in a virtual environment like VirtualBox or QEMU. As each manufacturer develops their own hardware firmware, making an operating system work on actual hardware is obviously not a one-man job. There are videos of people running TempleOS on real hardware, which may be believed to be true, maybe not. But given the fact that a lot of people are excited by this operating system, the day when TempleOS will run on actual hardware may not be far off.
The operating system was released into the public domain by the family of Terry Davis. An ISO file download can be obtained by this link.
Complete user-manual explaining how the operating system works and how to modify it are also shipped with the operating system.