A real desktop
Windows, a taskbar, settings, files, and applications form the everyday surface. The visual design is being refined in public through an interactive simulator.
An operating system in development
Your computer.
More possible.
PaOS Forge™ is a new personal operating system built around a native desktop, modular Linux capabilities, and useful automation. It aims to make powerful tools feel like a natural part of everyday computing.
The simulator is a design preview. It shows planned interactions, not a downloadable or fully working OS. Best viewed on a larger screen.
✦ PaOS ForgeOverview Files Terminal◉ 9:41
peter@paos ~ $ forge status
● Local tools ready
● Your workspace, your machine
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● Local tools ready
● Your workspace, your machine
peter@paos ~ $
▣ Home ⌘
▤ Documents 24
◇ Projects 8
✧ Neighborhoods 3
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A visual concept for the planned PaOS experience
THE IDEA
Familiar to use.
Different underneath.
A desktop should let you get to work immediately. PaOS Forge is being designed to pair familiar windows, files, and apps with an unusually flexible foundation for local tools and AI.
Linux where it helps
The RC plan includes modular Linux guest capabilities, so familiar CLI tools and selected applications can work within the PaOS experience.
AI with useful boundaries
The plan puts local automation, AI hooks, and an assistant within reach while keeping owner control and clear permission boundaries central to the design.
FIVE WAYS IN
See PaOS at the
depth you want.
PaOS is not released yet. It has been tested only on six specific machines in our lab, and it is not installable on general hardware. These are the ways to see it now and soon.
Vision, docs and videos
Why PaOS exists and where it is going: this page, the roadmap, and Peter's AI theory channel. The first PaOS video is still to come.
The 0.1 simulator
A browser design preview of the PaOS 0.1 Preview desktop. It shows planned behavior; it is not the real OS. Open the simulator.
The GUI preview VM
Coming: real PaOS code in a virtual machine, running ahead of the hardware track, with real workflows. You link your own AI. Not available yet.
The real code
A read-only source preview on GitHub, published as dated snapshots. For reading now; download and install come later.
How to contribute
Reports, hardware notes, ideas, reviews and SDK apps by email to hello@paosforge.com. Security problems go privately to security@paosforge.com. See how to help.
TRY THE IDEA
Take the desktop
for a spin.
The simulator lets you explore the planned PaOS 0.1 Preview desktop, apps, themes, and interactions in your browser. Open the Start menu, move windows, try the terminal, and see what we are working toward.
Launch the 0.1 simulatorWORK WITH THE FORGE
Have a difficult hardware
or workflow problem?
PaOS is being developed as an open-source operating system. Gransee Engineering is interested in scoped projects where its hardware, operating-system, and AI-assisted development work may help. An initial conversation is about feasibility and boundaries, not a promise of a production-ready PaOS deployment.
Hardware and driver feasibility
Map a device's interfaces, test it on representative hardware, and define a reproducible driver or interoperability path. A useful first deliverable is a written feasibility report with measurements, risks, and next steps.
Embedded and appliance prototypes
Explore a focused kiosk, instrument, or dedicated-workstation use case. Begin with a bounded prototype and explicit hardware and recovery tests before discussing any field deployment.
Small-team workflow fitments
Understand a manual process, preserve the existing tools, and prototype one useful automation at a time. Work involving sensitive records or multiple production seats depends on proven backup, access, audit, and support capabilities.
Have a candidate project? Tell us the hardware or workflow, the outcome you need, your timeframe, and what access or sample data you can safely provide. We can discuss whether a discovery engagement makes sense.
Contact Gransee EngineeringProject inquiries are exploratory. PaOS downloads, commercial support plans, hardware certification, and production service levels are not available yet.
WHERE THINGS STAND
Building toward
the first release.
PaOS Forge is in active development and testing. We are working toward the first release, 0.1 Preview. The source is public now as a read-only preview; downloads, hardware guidance and the full contribution path follow when they are ready.
Peter plans a plain-language video introduction on his AI theory YouTube channel: why busy people need more time for people, and how AI-assisted building might help make computing more useful. The first PaOS video is still to come.
Licensing plan: MPL-2.0 core, Apache-2.0 interfaces and SDK, and the author's choice for separate apps and drivers. Linux guests retain their own GPL and other upstream licenses. License files and notices are in the source preview.
Updates and contact. To hear when PaOS 0.1 ships, email hello@paosforge.com with the subject “Tell me when 0.1 ships.” Your address is used only for that one announcement and is never shared. Questions and ideas go to the same address. Peter reads everything; replies come weekly. Security problems: email security@paosforge.com with no details in the first message; we reply privately. Support options are coming.
0.1 simulatorAvailable now · browser design preview
↗Source previewRead-only snapshots · not installable
↗GUI preview VMComing · real PaOS code in a virtual machine
↓Downloads and installersWith 0.1 Preview · no release package yet
↗Help the ForgeBy email now · code contributions later
↗Release announcementEmail to hear when 0.1 ships · one message
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