urbit/urbit

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Urbit

Urbit is a personal server stack built from scratch. It has an identity layer (Azimuth), virtual machine (Vere), and operating system (Arvo).

A running Urbit “ship” is designed to operate with other ships peer-to-peer. Urbit is a general-purpose, peer-to-peer computer and network.

This repository contains the [Arvo Kernel][arvo]

For the Runtime, see [Vere][vere]. For more on the identity layer, see [Azimuth][azim]. To manage your Urbit identity, use [Bridge][brid].

Install

To install and run Urbit, please follow the instructions at [https://urbit.org/get-on-the-network][start]. You’ll be on the live network in a few minutes.

[start] !: https://urbit.org/get-on-the-network

Contributing

Contributions of any form are more than welcome! Please take a look at our [contributing guidelines][cont] for details on our git practices, coding styles, and how we manage issues.

You might also be interested in joining the [urbit-dev][list] mailing list.

Release

For details about our release process, see the [maintainers guidelines][main]

[arvo] !: https://github.com/urbit/urbit/tree/master/pkg/arvo [azim] !: https://github.com/urbit/azimuth [brid] !: https://github.com/urbit/bridge [vere] !: https://github.com/urbit/vere [list] !: https://groups.google.com/a/tlon.io/g/dev [cont] !: https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md [main] !: https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/master/MAINTAINERS.md