Open Source C++ Operating System Kernels

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    CachyOS

    CachyOS

    Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution

    CachyOS - Arch Linux Based Distribution With Heavy Optimizations & Multi-Architectures For Ultimate Desktop Experience Filesystems: - btrfs - zfs - ext4 - xfs - f2fs Our installer will auto detect which micro architecture your machine got, if x86-64-v3 or x86-64-v4 is detected it will automatically use the optimized packages, which is around a 10 % performance improvement. Desktop Environments: - KDE - CuteFish - i3 - Gnome - Openbox - Wayfire - Xfce - LXQT - bspwm All packages are compiled with Full LTO and other optimization flags. Depending on the march your cpu have it is compiled against x86-64, x86-64-v3 or x86-64-v4. For the Desktop Environment we provide basic theming. In CachyOS-Hello can be also security related packages enabled, like: DNScrypt-proxy Firejail apparmor Security and Performance! https://discord.gg/qJqj94uFwE https://t.me/+zCzPX4cAFjk1MTY
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    Downloads: 5,373 This Week
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    Linuxfx Winux OS

    Linuxfx Winux OS

    Winux Operating System by Linuxfx

    Break free from hardware restrictions and forced upgrades. Winux is the definitive successor for Windows 10 users seeking performance and reliability. Featuring an Intuitive Familiar Interface and Native Compatibility for your essential software.
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    Downloads: 716 This Week
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    QP Real-Time Event Frameworks & Tools

    QP Real-Time Event Frameworks & Tools

    Real-Time Event Frameworks based on active objects & state machines

    QP real-time event frameworks (RTEFs) provide lightweight, modern, event-driven architecture based on asynchronous Active Objects (Actors) and Hierarchical State Machines. The matching QM model-based design tool and other host-based tools complement the QP frameworks by supporting graphical modeling, code generation, software tracing, and unit testing for event-driven embedded software. Visit https://www.state-machine.com for more information. The QP RTEFs can run on bare-metal microcontrollers, replacing a traditional RTOS. The frameworks contain a selection of built-in real-time kernels (RTOS kernels), such as the cooperative QV kernel, the preemptive non-blocking QK kernel, and the unique preemptive, dual-mode (blocking/non-blocking) QXK kernel. Native QP ports and ready-to-use examples are provided for ARM Cortex-M (M0/M0+/M3/M4/M7/M33/...) as well as other CPUs. The QP RTEFs can also work with many traditional RTOSes and General-Purpose OSes, such as Linux and Windows.
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    Downloads: 171 This Week
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    Tools and plugins related to bart's PEBuilder
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    Downloads: 141 This Week
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    ravynOS

    ravynOS

    A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide an experience with MacOS

    We love macOS, but we’re not a fan of the ever-closing hardware and ecosystem. So we are creating ravynOS, an OS aimed to provide the finesse of macOS with the freedom of FreeBSD. This is a developer preview image that’s mainly intended for helping build the system. We recommend running in a virtual machine, although it should work on any hardware supported by FreeBSD-CURRENT (14.0) with at least 2GB (8GB recommended) RAM. PLEASE NOTE: On 2022-02-14, we decided to abandon the current path of using X11/KDE desktop components and write from scratch a new UI that will align better with our goals. This stepping back will slow the project but ultimately should result in a better outcome. We intend to bring many of the features you’ve come to love from macOS to ravynOS like clean design, global menus, and drag-and-drop installs. All of your FreeBSD ports and apps, Linux apps, and even trivial Darwin & macOS binaries can now run on ravynOS. And we’re actively working on improving it!
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    ChibiOS/RT free embedded RTOS
    ChibiOS/RT is a free and efficient RTOS designed for deeply embedded applications. It offers a comprehensive set of kernel primitives and supports many architectures: ARM7, Cortex-M0, Cortex-M3, Cortex-M4, PowerPC e200z, STM8, AVR, MSP430, ColdFire, H8S, x86.
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    Downloads: 68 This Week
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    ALG

    ALG

    A Fast, Offline, Graphical distribution based on Arch Linux

    October 2025 ISOs have been released! 3 new ISOs - PLASMA, GNOME, XFCE have been released. Thank you to all the members in the ALG community for their support.
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    Downloads: 333 This Week
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    The Fresh Project

    The Fresh Project

    Simply Awesome.

    The official home of Fresh, a One UI-based custom firmware for Samsung devices.
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    Downloads: 225 This Week
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    Cryptic Allusion Dreamcast-related development: KallistiOS, Ghetto Pong, etc.
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    nxtOSEK is an RTOS for LEGO Mindstorms NXT. nxtOSEK consists of I/O driver part of LEJOS NXJ, TOPPERS/ATK1 RTOS, and glue code for them. You can write applications for NXT in ANSI-C/C++. Check nxtOSEK site: http://lejos-osek.sourceforge.net
    Downloads: 43 This Week
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    DracOS GNU/Linux Remastered
    What is DracOS GNU/Linux Remastered ? DracOS GNU/Linux Remastered ( https://github.com/dracos-linux ) is the Linux operating system from Indonesia , open source is built based on Debian live project under the protection of the GNU General Public License v3.0. This operating system is one variant of Linux distributions, which is used to perform security testing (penetration testing). Dracos linux in Arm by hundreds hydraulic pentest, forensics and reverse engineering. Use a GUI-based tools-tools the software using the CLI (command line interface) and GUI (graphical user interface) to perform its operations. Now Dracos currently already up to version 3.1.5 with the code name "KUNTILANAK WITH REMASTERED".
    Downloads: 40 This Week
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    Lightweight Slackware modification. Desktop-centric applications built on up-to-date libraries and easy on hardware resources. Kinda Slackware without lots of work to start out...
    Downloads: 55 This Week
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    7-max increases the performance of some applications up to 10-20%. Windows uses small (4 KB) RAM pages by default. 7-max allows to use large (2 MB) RAM pages.
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    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    Cooperative Linux

    Cooperative Linux

    Run Linux on Windows or other OSes, natively.

    Cooperative Linux is the first method for optimally running Linux on Windows and other operating systems natively. It is a port of the Linux kernel and support code that allows it to run cooperatively without emulation along with another operating system.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    µOS++ (micro OS plus plus)
    "µOS++" (micro OS plus plus) is an open source, royalty-free, real-time operating system intended for embedded systems built around ARM Cortex M or AVR devices. It is based on a preemptive scheduler written in C++ (more info in the Wiki).
    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    Syllable Desktop is a complete operating system that is easy to use, powerful, lightweight and extraordinarily fast and responsive. It has its own kernel, filesystem, GUI and applications. Syllable Server is a matching small and efficient Linux server.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    SulinOS

    SulinOS

    Indipendent distro uses inary package system. Sulin is roolling donkey

    Sulin is rolling donkey Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/sulinos Github: https://github.com/sulinos Telegram: https://t.me/sulinos powered by donkey team
    Downloads: 31 This Week
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    IntelBluetoothFirmware

    IntelBluetoothFirmware

    Intel Bluetooth Kernel Extensions for macOS

    IntelBluetoothFirmware is a Kernel Extension that uploads Intel Wireless Bluetooth Firmware to provide native Bluetooth in macOS. The firmware binary files are from the Linux Open Source Project.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    mOSesek
    Simple 32/64bit mode OS. Paging, handling exceptions IRQ INT, Basic: PIC/APIC, PCI, kbd, ps/2 mouse, ata. Thanks to wiki.osdev.org and (in alphabetical order): Kicer86, milyges, Nevar, webczat, Wojtulas. (IRC freenode #osdev.pl)
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    Offline Filesystem to enable the use of an Network file system without a network connection or after a connection loss.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    PixelBuilds

    PixelBuilds

    Latest Android builds from PixelBoot.

    Builds and images, yet to be tested, both stable and unstable from several different custom ROMs, with different changes in source code for further experimentations to fix build bugs and issues. If installing on your own personal device, proceed with caution, and kindly follow instructions given by builder.
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    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    scmRTOS is tiny Real-Time Preemptive Operating System intended for use with Single-Chip Microcontrollers. scmRTOS is capable to run on small uCs with as little amount of RAM as 512 bytes. The RTOS is written on C++ and supports various platforms.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    The Darwin Source repository is intended to fill a void left by the closure of the OpenDarwin project: providing a permanent and public repository for the open source components of Mac OS X.
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    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS is a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distribution.

    A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    PEACE is another Win32 OS implemented on NetBSD/i386.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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