Open Source Windows Operating System Kernels
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PrimeOS, the ideal Android based OS for mobile games on PC/Laptop.
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Super Grub2 Disk
Boots into many systems and GRUB2 ones!
Super GRUB2 Disk helps you to boot into most any Operating System (OS) even if you cannot boot into it by normal means. -
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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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Community driven projects featuring the latest innovations for cutting edge apps. Our flagship project JBoss AS is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, Java EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java.
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WSL2-Linux-Kernel
The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
The WSL2-Linux-Kernel repo contains the kernel source code and configuration files for the WSL2 kernel. If you discover an issue relating to WSL or the WSL2 kernel, please report it on the WSL GitHub project. It is not possible to report issues on the WSL2-Linux-Kernel project. Instructions for building an x86_64 WSL2 kernel with an Ubuntu distribution are provided. The number one way that we recommend you run Linux distributions is by installing Windows Terminal. Using Windows Terminal enables you to open multiple tabs or window panes to display and quickly switch between multiple Linux distributions or other command lines (PowerShell, Command Prompt, PowerShell, Azure CLI, etc). You can fully customize your terminal with unique color schemes, font styles, sizes, background images, and custom keyboard shortcuts. -
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FreeRTOS Real Time Kernel (RTOS)
Market leading real time kernel for 40+ microcontroller architectures
************************************************************************************************************************ * The primary FreeRTOS repository is now in Git. Go to https://github.com/freertos for the latest FreeRTOS kernel and libraries. * Our support has moved to https://forums.freertos.org. ************************************************************************************************************************ FreeRTOS is a market-leading real-time operating system (RTOS) for microcontrollers and small microprocessors. Distributed freely under the MIT open source license, FreeRTOS includes a kernel and a growing set of libraries suitable for use across all industry sectors. Visit https://www.freertos.org for more information and other download options. Note about support/discussions forum: The FreeRTOS support forum has moved to https://forums.freertos.org. Please update your bookmarks and create new posts in the appropriate category in the new community forums. -
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EmuTOS
Free operating system for Atari computers, and more.
EmuTOS is a TOS compatible operating system for Atari ST series computers, and more. It is made from Digital Research's GPLed original sources and is a free and open source alternative to Atari proprietary ROMs. -
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NuttX
Real-Time Embedded Operating System
Nuttx is a real time embedded operating system (RTOS). Its goals are: (1) small footprint usable in deeply embedded, resource constrained environments, (2) fully scalable from tiny (8-bit) to moderate (32-bit), (3) standards compliance, (4) real time, and (5) totally open. Think "Tiny Linux". NuttX is now and Apache project in incubation. See https://nuttx.apache.org/download/ for the latest downloads. -
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Website: https://prismlinux.org Discord: https://discord.gg/hMrWsTpdqw
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The USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network. To share USB devices between computers with their full functionality, USB/IP encapsulates USB I/O requests into IP packets and transmits them between computers.
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netboot.xyz
Your favorite operating systems in one place
netboot.xyz enables you to boot into many types of operating systems using lightweight tooling to get you up and running as soon as possible. Discover new operating systems without having to download and rewrite media over and over again. Rescue operating systems from a single image. An essential for any sysadmin. netboot.XYZ uses the iPXE project to enable you to provision, rescue, or load into a live boot environment leveraging the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) on most systems. netboot.xyz is a convenient place to boot into any type of operating system or utility disk without the need of having to go spend time retrieving the ISO just to run it. iPXE is used to provide a user-friendly menu from within the BIOS that lets you easily choose the operating system you want along with any specific types of versions or bootable flags. -
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stress-ng
This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository.
This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository. stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces. stress-ng was originally intended to make a machine work hard and trip hardware issues such as thermal overruns as well as operating system bugs that only occur when a system is being thrashed hard. Use stress-ng with caution as some of the tests can make a system run hot on poorly designed hardware and also can cause excessive system thrashing which may be difficult to stop. -
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Rocket.Chat Desktop App
OSX, Windows, and Linux Desktop Clients for Rocket.Chat
Secure and compliant communications platform. We use communication platforms on a daily basis to collaborate with colleagues, other companies, customers, and communities. Most of them give you very little in terms of control and customizations; except Rocket.Chat. Bring together messages, projects, and tasks in one place and watch your team’s productivity rise to new heights. Engage in contextual interactions with customers irrespective of how they contact you. Ensure long-term relationships and improved business outcomes. Create custom messaging experiences within your app or website by integrating and white labeling Rocket.Chat components and enterprise features. Extend and customize your workspace with custom apps, open APIs, powerful plugins, and webhooks. Own your conversations. Choose from self-hosted, air-gapped, or secure cloud deployment options that meet your security and compliance needs. -
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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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FarmBot OS
The operating system and all related software
The operating system and all related software that runs on FarmBot's Raspberry Pi. The FarmBot OS release page has moved to my.farm.bot/os. Old versions of FarmBot OS can still be found. Get configured over WiFi, mitigating the need to plug in a mouse, keyboard, or screen. Communicate with the web application over WiFi or ethernet so that it can synchronize (download) sequences, regimens, farm designs, events, and more; upload logs and sensor data; and accept real-time commands. Communicate with the Farmduino to send G and F commands and receive sensor and encoder data. Take photos with a USB or Raspberry Pi camera, and upload the photos to the web application. You must use a .img writing tool to write FarmBot OS onto the microSD card. We recommend downloading and installing balenaEtcher for this purpose. -
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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
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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. -
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Providing an easy to use platform for running Ancient UNIX & BSD on windows.
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ToaruOS
Hobby operating system, bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library
ToaruOS is a "complete" operating system for x86-64 PCs and experimental support for ARMv8. While many independent, hobby, and research OSes aim to experiment with new designs, ToaruOS is intended as an educational resource, providing a representative microcosm of functionality found in major desktop operating systems. The OS includes a kernel, bootloader, dynamic shared object linker, C standard library, its own composited windowing system, a dynamic bytecode-compiled programming language, advanced code editor, and dozens of other utilities and example applications. There are no external runtime dependencies and all required source code, totaling roughly 100k lines of (primarily) C, is included in this repository, save for Kuroko, which lives separately. Through out the project, ToaruOS has also attracted quite a few beginner OS developers who have tried to use it as a reference. -
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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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VxKex
Original VxKex copy
https://msfn.org/board/topic/186333-vxkex-extended-kernel-project-dissapeared/ Versions: * 1_1_1_1375 * 1_1_0_129 -
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HackSys Extreme Vulnerable Driver
HackSys Extreme Vulnerable Driver (HEVD) - Windows & Linux
The HackSys Extreme Vulnerable Driver (HEVD) is a Windows Kernel driver that is intentionally vulnerable. It has been developed for security researchers and enthusiasts to improve their skills in kernel-level exploitation. HEVD offers a range of vulnerabilities, from simple stack buffer overflows to more complex issues such as use-after-free, pool buffer overflows, and race conditions. This allows researchers to explore exploitation techniques for each implemented vulnerability. -
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Xone
Linux kernel driver for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S accessories
xone is a Linux kernel driver for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S accessories. It serves as a modern replacement for Xpad, aiming to be compatible with Microsoft's Game Input Protocol (GIP). Installing Xone will disable the Xpad kernel driver. If you are still using Xbox or Xbox 360 peripherals, you will have to install xpad-noone as a replacement for Xpad. -
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Zen Kernel
Zen Patched Kernel Sources
Zen Patched Kernel Sources. This is the top level of the kernel’s documentation tree. Kernel documentation, like the kernel itself, is very much a work in progress; that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered documents into a coherent whole. ARC processors are highly configurable and several configurable options are supported in Linux. Some options are transparent to software (i.e cache geometries, some can be detected at runtime and configured and used accordingly, while some need to be explicitly selected or configured in the kernel’s configuration utility.
