The Ares Operating System # Ares is a new operating system under development. System design # The base of the system is the Helios microkernel. On top of this are several additional layers: Mercury: an environment for device drivers Venus: a collection of real-world drivers for Mercury Gaia: a userspace programming environment Luna: a POSIX programming environment Ares: a high-level operating system; package manager, desktop, etc At this time, Helios and Mercury are the focus of development.