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    Pony OS

    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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    Nightingale OS

    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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    EVE OS

    EVE OS

    EVE is Edge Virtualization Engine

    EVE is an open-source, secure, and container-optimized operating system for edge computing, developed by the LF Edge foundation. It enables enterprises to deploy and manage edge applications on heterogeneous hardware platforms using a zero-trust architecture. EVE supports virtual machines, containers, and unikernels while being hardware-agnostic, making it suitable for industrial gateways, edge clusters, and IoT devices. With its remote provisioning, lifecycle management, and built-in...
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    VirtualBox

    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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    Vanilla OS Live ISO Builder

    Vanilla OS Live ISO Builder

    Vanilla OS Live ISO Builder.

    Vanilla OS Live ISO provides the official live environment and installer for Vanilla OS, a Linux distribution that blends immutability, security, and user-friendliness. Built on Ubuntu with an immutable root file system, Vanilla OS uses ABRoot and Distrobox to offer transactional updates and containerized app environments. The live ISO project enables users to boot and test the OS without installation, and includes the Calamares installer to simplify the setup process. It ensures users can...
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    Quickemu

    Quickemu

    Quickly create and run optimized Windows, macOS and Linux

    Quickly create and run optimized Windows, macOS, and Linux virtual machines. Quickemu is a wrapper for the excellent QEMU that automatically "does the right thing" when creating virtual machines. No requirement for exhaustive configuration options. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu takes care of the rest. The original objective of the project was to enable quick testing of Linux distributions where the virtual machines and their configuration can be stored...
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    Crosvm

    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. Written in Rust, it...
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    Urbit

    Urbit

    An operating function

    ...The entire OS is a single pure function that provides application developers with strong guarantees: automated persistence and memory management, repeatable builds, and support for hot code reloading. Urbit is a personal OS designed from scratch to run peer-to-peer applications. A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century.
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    86Box

    86Box

    Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem

    ...Supports running MS-DOS, older Windows versions, OS/2, many Linux distributions, or vintage systems such as BeOS or NEXTSTEP, and applications for these systems.
    Downloads: 85 This Week
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    hhuOS

    hhuOS

    hhuOS - A small operating system

    hhuOS is an educational operating system project developed by students at Heinrich Heine University (HHU) in Düsseldorf, Germany. It is built from scratch in C and Assembly and intended as a teaching tool to help students grasp the foundations of kernel development, memory management, system calls, and multitasking. The project focuses on clarity, modularity, and hands-on experimentation with real OS components, making it suitable for OS development courses or personal exploration.
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    WANIX

    WANIX

    A virtual environment kit for the local-first web

    wanix is a hobbyist Unix-like operating system written from scratch in C, aiming to implement core features of a traditional OS in an educational and modular way. The project walks through kernel development starting from bootloading, memory management, system calls, and eventually to user programs. With support for x86_64 and simple tools like a shell and basic file I/O, wanix serves as both a learning platform and a launching point for more advanced kernel features.
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    Docker-OSX

    Docker-OSX

    Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker

    Run Mac OS X in Docker with near-native performance! X11 Forwarding. iMessage security research! iPhone USB working! macOS in a Docker container.
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    Vinix

    Vinix

    An effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system

    Vinix is an experimental Unix-like operating system written in V, a statically typed compiled programming language known for its simplicity and performance. The project aims to create a minimalistic and efficient OS that adheres to Unix principles while leveraging the modern features of the V language. Vinix serves as both a proof of concept for system programming in V and a platform for exploring OS design concepts.
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    Azure Linux

    Azure Linux

    General purpose Linux OS for Azure

    Azure Linux is Microsoft’s open-source Linux distribution built and optimized for Azure environments. It is designed to provide a secure and reliable operating system for virtual machines, containers, and bare-metal platforms. The distribution is derived from Fedora Linux sources while adding Azure-specific engineering for cloud operations. It uses the RPM package ecosystem, which makes it familiar to administrators and developers who already work with RPM-based Linux systems. Azure Linux...
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    Xash3D FWGS Engine

    Xash3D FWGS Engine

    Xash3D FWGS engine

    ...At the same time, the engine’s enhancements — modern input support (gamepad, touch), modern OS compatibility, cross-platform builds.
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    Fiwix

    Fiwix

    A UNIX-like kernel for the i386 architecture

    ...It implements many classic UNIX principles and aims to provide a clean, well-documented codebase that is both readable and easy to study. Fiwix offers a functional kernel that supports ELF binaries, a virtual file system, and standard system calls, making it a great platform for learning OS internals or experimenting with system-level programming. Its minimalist design helps users understand how key components like multitasking, filesystems, and memory management work under the hood.
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    Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard

    Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard

    Virtual MIDI controller for Linux, Windows and OSX

    VMPK is a virtual MIDI piano keyboard for Linux, Windows and OSX. Based on Qt and Drumstick the program is a MIDI event generator using the computer's alphanumeric keyboard and the mouse. It may be used also to display received MIDI notes.
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    systemd

    systemd

    The systemd system and service manager

    systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system. It provides a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. systemd...
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    AutomatedLab

    AutomatedLab

    Framework that lets you deploy complex labs on HyperV and Azure

    AutomatedLab is a provisioning solution and framework that lets you deploy complex labs on HyperV and Azure with simple PowerShell scripts. It supports all Windows operating systems from 2008 R2 to 2019, some Linux distributions and various products like AD, Exchange, PKI, IIS, etc. AutomatedLab (AL) enables you to setup test and lab environments on Hyper-v or Azure with multiple products or just a single VM in a very short time. There are only two requirements you need to make sure: You...
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    Virtual Magnifying Glass is designed for visually-impaired and others who need to magnify a part of the screen. Unlike similar programs it does not open a separate window for the magnification but instead puts a movable magnifying glass on screen.
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    Zephyr Project

    Zephyr Project

    Scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures

    The Zephyr Project is a new generation real-time operating system (RTOS) that supports multiple hardware architectures. It is based on a small-footprint kernel specially designed for use on resource-constrained and embedded systems. The Zephyr OS can be used for a wide range of applications: from simple embedded environmental sensors and LED wearables to sophisticated embedded controllers, smart watches, and IoT wireless applications.
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    F´

    F´

    A flight software and embedded systems framework

    ...It has been used for but is not limited to, CubeSats, SmallSats, instruments, and deployable. Component architecture with well-defined interfaces. To develop applications with F´, the following requirements of the user’s system must be met, Linux or Mac OS X operating system (or Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows), CMake, Bash or Bash compatible shell, Clang or GCC compiler, Python 3 and PIP. F´ can be quickly installed and ready to use by cloning the GitHub repository, installing Python code (typically in a virtual environment), and building one of our reference applications.
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    eduOS-rs

    eduOS-rs

    A teaching operating system written in Rust

    eduOS-rs is a teaching operating system written in Rust, developed by RWTH Aachen University to support courses on systems programming and operating systems. It serves as a practical and educational tool that demonstrates key OS concepts like memory management, multitasking, privilege separation, and system call handling in a safe and modern language. Designed to run on x86_64 hardware using QEMU, eduOS-rs leverages Rust’s ownership model and type safety to reduce bugs common in low-level...
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    ChrysaLisp

    ChrysaLisp

    Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries

    ChrysaLisp is a 64-bit, MIMD, multi-CPU, multi-threaded, multi-core, multi-user parallel operating system with features such as a GUI, terminal, OO Assembler, class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter, debugger, profiler, vector font engine, and more. It supports MacOS, Windows, and Linux for x64, Riscv64, and Arm64 and eventually will move to bare metal. It also allows the modeling of various network topologies and the use of ChrysaLib hub nodes to join heterogeneous host...
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    Sysdig

    Sysdig

    Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool

    Continuously assess cloud security posture by flagging misconfigurations and suspicious activity. Consolidate container and host scanning in a single workflow. Automate scanning locally in your CI/CD tools without images leaving your environment and block vulnerabilities pre-deployment. Visualize all network communication across apps and services. Apply microsegmentation by automating Kubernetes-native network policies. Unify threat detection and incident response across containers,...
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