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    PrimeOS
    PrimeOS, the ideal Android based OS for mobile games on PC/Laptop.
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    Super Grub2 Disk

    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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    Downloads: 2,176 This Week
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    Linuxfx Winux OS

    Linuxfx Winux OS

    Winux Operating System by Linuxfx

    Windows Theme Over Linux a.k.a "Winux" is a super secure Linux operating system that is completely inspired by Microsoft Windows, but does not require any special hardware requirements and can be installed.
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    Downloads: 752 This Week
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    WSL2-Linux-Kernel

    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.
    Downloads: 84 This Week
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    FreeRTOS Real Time Kernel (RTOS)

    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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    Downloads: 255 This Week
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    EmuTOS

    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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    Downloads: 440 This Week
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    JBoss Community
    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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    Downloads: 222 This Week
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    The USB/IP Project
    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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    Downloads: 173 This Week
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    IPython Kernel for Jupyter

    IPython Kernel for Jupyter

    IPython Kernel for Jupyter

    This package provides the IPython kernel for Jupyter. IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most of using Python interactively.
    Downloads: 28 This Week
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    Rocket.Chat Desktop App

    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.
    Downloads: 28 This Week
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    netboot.xyz

    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.
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    Tools and plugins related to bart's PEBuilder
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    Downloads: 160 This Week
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    ReactOS

    ReactOS

    A free Windows-compatible Operating System

    Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That's the mission of ReactOS! Being part of a Worldwide Community, as ReactOS is, will boost your own personal skills to a highest new level. Working teamed with people from different countries will enhance your team-working, empathy and English. All these skills are really appreciated by companies out there in job interviews. Contributing your free time into an open source project seems to be also trending and marks a difference within you and another candidate for the same job. If you want to learn about coding and Windows internals, you won’t find a better real field case. You’ll find in ReactOS the possibility to move from the book theory to the practical cases. This is the main reason why top-most software companies offer ReactOS Devs jobs opportunities.
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    Zen Kernel

    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.
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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: 82 This Week
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    stress-ng

    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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    Ancient UNIX/BSD emulation on Windows
    Providing an easy to use platform for running Ancient UNIX & BSD on windows.
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    Downloads: 97 This Week
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    ToaruOS

    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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    Downloads: 84 This Week
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    Xone

    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.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 7 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: 32 This Week
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    VxKex

    VxKex

    Original VxKex copy

    https://msfn.org/board/topic/186333-vxkex-extended-kernel-project-dissapeared/ Versions: * 1_1_1_1375 * 1_1_0_129
    Downloads: 161 This Week
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    syzkaller

    syzkaller

    syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer

    syzkaller is Google’s coverage-guided, feedback-driven kernel fuzzer designed to uncover reliability and security bugs in operating system kernels at scale. It automatically generates, mutates, and minimizes system call programs, then drives them through a specialized executor (syz-executor) to exercise deep kernel paths. The system integrates tightly with sanitizers such as KASAN, KMSAN, KCSAN, and UBSAN to surface memory safety, concurrency, and undefined behavior issues with actionable reports. A distributed architecture coordinates many fuzzing VMs, collects crash signatures, deduplicates them, and bisects to the first bad commit when possible. syzkaller maintains per-kernel “syz” descriptions so it understands arguments, flags, and resources of thousands of syscalls and ioctls across Linux and other kernels. It also ships sophisticated reproducers and minimization routines so developers get small, deterministic test cases they can run locally to fix bugs quickly.
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    Debian 13 Mate

    Debian 13 Mate

    Debian Trixie with the Mate desktop environment

    EFI SUPPORT: Download the efi iso if you need efi support here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/debian-mate/files/current/ This is debian 13 mate. Built with debian tools, packages, and currently based on the stable branch (Trixie). Here I try not to use software from outside of the debian repositories. For all intents and purposes, this is just debian paired with the mate desktop environment with a lot of hardware support taken care of. Debian mate doesn't force you into new conformancy. We use the mate desktop environment here; no gnome 4 or unity for anyone. With a start menu and a taskbar, you're good to go. This is just another decent desktop use operating system, but better. Take a good long stare at my packages (check readme.txt).
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    Downloads: 68 This Week
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