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Rufus is a standalone app designed to format and create a bootable USB drive for a large variety of ISOs. The app is just over 1MB in size and is notably faster than similar competitor apps such as the Windows 7 USB utility, Universal USB Installer, and UNetbootin. Rufus can come in handy when you need to simply format a USB drive, install an OS on a machine that lacks a CD/DVD-ROM drive, or when you need to boot an operating system temporarily without intentions of actually installing...

smolOS is a minimalist 16-bit operating system written in pure Assembly for x86 real mode. Its goal is to demonstrate the fundamentals of how an OS boots, handles input, and displays output using only the most essential code. smolOS fits in a single boot sector and runs directly on BIOS-compatible hardware or emulators like QEMU. It’s ideal for those seeking to understand bootloaders, BIOS interrupts, and ultra-low-level system programming through a practical and tiny project.

A practical guide and GitHub-hosted project by Samy Pesse that walks you through building a very simple UNIX-based operating system in C++, designed to boot, launch a userland shell, and remain extensible. It’s more than a proof of concept—it’s meant to be functional and educational. All the system source code will be stored in the src directory. Each step will contain links to the different related files. This course is open to contributions, feel free to signal errors with issues or...