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Pony OS
My Little Unix: Kernels are Magic
ponyos is a lightweight, UNIX-like operating system developed as a personal hobby project by the creator of ToaruOS. It features a monolithic kernel written in C and aims for a POSIX-compliant environment with a built-from-scratch userland. ponyos includes a graphical interface, dynamic linker, shared libraries, and a package manager. It’s designed for fun, experimentation, and as a platform to learn and play with operating system internals, with surprisingly advanced features given its... -
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Lightweight ring buffer manager
Lightweight generic ring buffer manager library
The library provides generic FIFO ring buffer implementation. -
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os-tutorial
How to create an OS from scratch
os-tutorial is an open source educational project by cfenollosa that teaches the basics of building an operating system from scratch. The repository provides step-by-step lessons starting with bootloaders and moving through kernel development, interrupts, memory management, and system calls. Each tutorial is accompanied by clear explanations, code examples, and references to deepen understanding. The project uses x86 assembly and C to illustrate concepts, making it accessible to students and... -
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NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Module
NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source
...This code base is shared with NVIDIA's proprietary drivers, and various processing is performed on the shared code to produce the source code that is published here. When packaged in the NVIDIA .run installation package, the OS-agnostic component is provided as a binary. -
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OBS Linux Vulkan/OpenGL game capture
OBS Linux Vulkan/OpenGL game capture
obs-vkcapture is a Vulkan layer and OBS Studio plugin that enables capturing of Vulkan-rendered content in real time, solving a long-standing limitation in game recording and streaming. It works by injecting a Vulkan layer into applications, intercepting rendering calls, and redirecting frame data to OBS Studio without requiring special in-game support. This is particularly useful for modern Vulkan-based games or tools that lack native screen capture hooks. It’s lightweight, efficient, and... -
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SkiffOS
Any Linux distribution, anywhere
SkiffOS is a lightweight, containerized operating system optimized for embedded systems, edge devices, and single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi. It integrates Buildroot and Docker to create minimal, reproducible OS images that boot directly into a containerized user environment. SkiffOS supports running full Linux distros or custom applications in containers, providing both performance and modularity. -
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Flash Linux 0.11 Talk
Annotated Unix system source code
flash-linux0.11-talk is an annotated walkthrough of the Linux 0.11 kernel that explains how a tiny Unix-like system boots, schedules, handles interrupts, and manages memory. The materials break down historically compact and dense code into digestible segments, with diagrams and call flows that trace execution from bootloader to user space. By focusing on a small, early kernel, the series reveals core OS concepts without the complexity of modern subsystems. -
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Gramine
A library OS for Linux multi-process applications
Gramine is a lightweight library-operating system (Library OS) designed to run unmodified Linux applications with minimal dependencies on the host OS, and to offer enhanced isolation and portability. It was formerly known as Graphene, but the project renamed to Gramine to avoid naming conflicts and to reflect its broader ambition beyond the original research prototype. -
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LOOM OS
LooM OS is a blazingly fast, ultra-lightweight Linux distribution
LooM OS is a blazingly fast, ultra-lightweight Linux distribution based on Debian 12, engineered exclusively for DevOps, SysAdmins, and Power Users. It features a pre-configured DevOps stack, a pure i3wm workflow, and the exclusive LinUtil CLI toolkit for advanced system maintenance -
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FTLDNS
The Pi-hole FTL engine
Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware. FTLDNS (pihole-FTL) provides an interactive API and also generates statistics for Pi-hole®'s Web interface. Fast, stats are read directly from memory by coupling our codebase closely with dnsmasq. Versatile, upstream changes to dnsmasq can quickly be merged in without much conflict. Lightweight, runs smoothly with minimal hardware and software requirements such as Raspberry Pi Zero. -
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CrossDB
Ultra High-performance Lightweight Embedded and Server OLTP RDBMS
CrossDB is a ultra high-performance, lightweight embedded and server OLTP RDBMS. It is designed for high-performance scenarios where the main memory can hold the entire database. -
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Capstone
Capstone disassembly/disassembler framework
Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community. Created by Nguyen Anh Quynh, then developed and maintained by a small community, Capstone offers some unparalleled features. Support multiple hardware architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), Ethereum VM, M68K, Mips, MOS65XX, PPC, Sparc, SystemZ, TMS320C64X, M680X, XCore and X86 (including X86_64). Having clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive... -
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PgBouncer
lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL
PgBouncer is a lightweight, high-performance connection pooler for PostgreSQL. It reduces the overhead of frequent connection handling by maintaining a pool of open connections, which are reused by client applications. PgBouncer supports various pooling modes, transaction-level handling, and authentication mechanisms, making it essential for scaling Postgres-backed applications. -
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DiscoBSD
2.11BSD-based Unix-like OS for STM32 and PIC32 Microcontrollers
Discobsd is an experimental UNIX-like operating system derived from 4.4BSD-Lite2, focused on simplicity, transparency, and education. It strips away non-essential features and complexity to present a cleaner codebase suitable for study and hacking. Discobsd preserves the classic UNIX environment while allowing room for modern experimentation, such as porting to alternative platforms or introducing new subsystems. It is valuable for those interested in historical BSD systems, teaching OS... -
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VirtualBox
Virtualization software for x86_64 hardware
VirtualBox is a powerful open-source full virtualization software that allows a user to run one or more “guest” operating systems simultaneously inside “virtual machines” on a single physical “host” machine. It supports a wide variety of host platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris, etc.) and guest OSes, enabling, for example, running Linux on a Windows PC, running Windows Server on a Linux host, or even legacy OSes in a controlled environment. This flexibility makes VirtualBox ideal for developers, testers, sysadmins, or hobbyists who need different OS environments, want to test software across systems, or need isolation for development, sandboxing, or security experiments. ... -
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Objeck
Objeck is a modern object-oriented programming language
General-purpose object-oriented and functional programming language. Designed to be intuitive, lightweight, cross-platform and fast. The Objeck compiler produces two types of binaries. The first is an executable and the second type is a library. Libraries can be linked into executables by passing the names of libraries to the compiler. Objeck can be built for a variety of targets. The language is implemented in C++, assembly (i.e., generated machine code) and assisted by code generators for... -
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simplewall
Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP)
simplewall is an open-source Windows application that provides a user-friendly firewall control interface powered by Windows Filtering Platform (WFP), enabling users to block or allow outgoing and incoming network connections without diving into complex OS settings or command-line tools. The app presents a clean, intuitive UI where users can define rules based on process names, IP addresses, ports, and protocols, making it possible to restrict apps from accessing the internet or control specific traffic flows with fine granularity. Because simplewall leverages WFP directly, it operates at a low level in the network stack, ensuring reliable enforcement of rules system-wide while remaining lightweight. -
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Berry Linux
A lightweight flavor of Linux based on Fedora
Berry Linux is a bootable CD Linux, automatic hardware detection. Berry Linux can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. -
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llama.cpp
Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++
The llama.cpp project enables the inference of Meta's LLaMA model (and other models) in pure C/C++ without requiring a Python runtime. It is designed for efficient and fast model execution, offering easy integration for applications needing LLM-based capabilities. The repository focuses on providing a highly optimized and portable implementation for running large language models directly within C/C++ environments. -
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Nightingale OS
A small operating system where I experiment and learn osdev
nightingale is a modern hobby operating system developed in Rust, focusing on safety, simplicity, and minimalism. It aims to be a clean platform for experimentation and learning, implementing a small kernel with core features like multitasking, memory protection, and a minimal filesystem. Its use of Rust provides strong guarantees around memory safety and eliminates common bugs found in low-level C-based systems. nightingale is ideal for those seeking to study OS development using a modern... -
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FontForge
Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
FontForge is a free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux. Use it to create, edit and convert fonts in OpenType, TrueType, UFO, CID-keyed, Multiple Master, and many other formats. FontForge is a free and open source font editor brought to you by a community of fellow type lovers. You can donate to support the project financially. Type design is visually complex as well as highly technical, however it is easier to begin making type now than ever, partly because of the availability of free tools like FontForge. ... -
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Crosvm
The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor
crosvm (ChromeOS Virtual Machine Monitor) is a secure, lightweight virtual machine monitor built on top of the Linux KVM hypervisor. Developed for ChromeOS, it is designed to isolate and execute Linux and Android guests efficiently while maintaining strong security boundaries. Unlike general-purpose emulators like QEMU, crosvm avoids full hardware emulation and focuses on modern paravirtualized I/O using the virtio standard, reducing complexity and attack surface. ... -
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Geany
A fast and lightweight IDE
Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, is translated into over 40 languages, and has built-in support for more than 50 programming languages. -
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picom
A lightweight compositor for X11
picom is a compositor for X and a fork of Compton. A lightweight compositor for X11. -
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Zydis
Fast and lightweight x86/x86-64 disassembler and code generation lib
Zydis is a fast and lightweight disassembler library designed for decoding x86 and x86-64 machine code into human-readable assembly instructions. It focuses on performance and accuracy, making it suitable for applications such as reverse engineering, debugging, and binary analysis. The library provides detailed information about decoded instructions, including operands, prefixes, and instruction lengths, enabling deep inspection of executable code. It is designed to be easy to integrate,...