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    Hermit Kernel

    Hermit Kernel

    A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel

    Hermit Kernel is designed to reduce latency and overhead by avoiding traditional OS abstractions, while still providing essential services such as scheduling, memory management, and networking. It bridges the gap between performance-critical applications and the simplicity of unikernel deployment.
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    Talos Linux

    Talos Linux

    Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes

    Talos Linux is Linux designed for Kubernetes – secure, immutable, and minimal. Supports cloud platforms, bare metal, and virtualization platforms. All system management is done via an API. No SSH, shell or console. Production-ready supports some of the largest Kubernetes clusters in the world. Open source project from the team at Sidero Labs.
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    Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon

    Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon

    A refined, friendly, & modern desktop experience with longterm support

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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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    CoolPotOS

    CoolPotOS

    CoolPotOS for ia32 / amd64

    CoolPotOS is a small, hobbyist operating system designed to be minimal and educational, offering the most basic kernel capabilities while remaining accessible to beginners. Written in C and Assembly, it focuses on bootstrapping, kernel entry, and simple console output. Though in early stages, CoolPotOS showcases the boot process, memory segmentation, and essential CPU features, serving as a great learning resource for those new to operating system internals.
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    Glow OS

    Glow OS

    System Analysis Software

    Glow is an educational, hobbyist operating system written in C and Assembly, developed to help learners understand the internals of OS design and kernel development. Targeting x86_64 systems, Glow features its own kernel, bootloader, and minimal userland. With clear code structure and a simple design, it serves as a playground for experimenting with low-level systems programming, boot sequences, interrupt handling, and basic UI components like shells and text rendering.
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    Winux Operating System

    Winux Operating System

    The definitive successor for Windows 10 users

    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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    SerenityOS

    SerenityOS

    The Serenity Operating System

    SerenityOS is an open source Unix-like operating system project with its own custom kernel, graphical user interface, system libraries, and userland tools. It combines a nostalgic “90s UI aesthetic” with modern system capabilities: a preemptive, multi-threaded kernel, own browsers, network stack, file systems, IPC, security features, and a suite of graphical / developer applications. The project is both a hobbyist OS and a polished engineering sandbox.
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    MentOS

    MentOS

    An educational 32-bit linux-like Operating System

    MentOS is an educational operating system developed for academic use, particularly in university settings, to help students understand low-level system concepts such as process management, memory handling, and scheduling. Written in C, MentOS closely mimics a simplified Unix-like OS and includes hands-on implementations of key kernel features. Designed to be highly readable and modular, it offers a practical approach to learning systems programming through real-world kernel components, making it a valuable tool for operating system courses and personal exploration.
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    Fiwix

    Fiwix

    A UNIX-like kernel for the i386 architecture

    Fiwix is a Unix-like operating system kernel designed for educational purposes and hobbyist development, targeting 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. ...
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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 hobbyist origin.
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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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    MX-Linux

    MX-Linux

    MX-Linux project

    MX Linux is a cooperative venture between the antiX and MX Linux communities. It is a family of operating systems that are designed to combine elegant and efficient desktops with high stability and solid performance. MX’s graphical tools provide an easy way to do a wide variety of tasks, while the Live USB and snapshot tools inherited from antiX add impressive portability and remastering capabilities.
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    antiX-Linux
    antiX is a fast, lightweight and easy to install linux live CD distribution based on Debian Stable for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems.
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    ArkOS

    ArkOS

    Another rockchip Operating System

    Another rockchip Operating System. This OS came about from an initial fork of The Retro Arena to support a roms folder on a NTFS partition so that the management of roms could be done by simply putting you SD card into an appropriate card reader on a Windows 10 computer. Through various upgrades and tweaks overtime, it has diverged significantly from TheRA and it's time to rebrand this distro. With suggestions provided by community members, ArkOS was chosen.
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    Tock OS

    Tock OS

    A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers

    Tock is a secure, embedded operating system designed for microcontrollers and low-power hardware platforms. Written in Rust, it uses a novel kernel architecture where the OS runs a minimal trusted core and all userland code, including device drivers, is sandboxed and isolated. Tock is ideal for IoT devices, wearables, and embedded research projects where reliability and safety are critical. Its capability-based security model and preemptive multitasking allow developers to safely run multiple applications on constrained devices with confidence in memory and fault isolation.
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    eduOS-rs

    eduOS-rs

    A teaching operating system written in Rust

    ...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 systems development. It is a valuable resource for students and instructors alike, providing clear, structured examples of kernel development.
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    DreamShell

    DreamShell

    Operating system for the Sega Dreamcast

    The Dreamshell is the operating system for the Sega Dreamcast based on the KallistiOS kernel. It has a dynamic loadable modular system and interface for creating applications with XML UI and both C/C++ and Lua scripts on. You can see examples in ready-made applications and modules, drivers for various devices, formats and interfaces. Examples for audio and video decoding, compression, packaging, binding, network, emulation, scripts and more.
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    Linux Lite

    Linux Lite

    A free, easy to use operating system

    Linux Lite is free for everyone to use and share, and suitable for people who are new to Linux and for people who want a lightweight operating system that is also fully featured. With a free Office Suite, Media Player and a choice of Web Browsers.
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    Downloads: 3,962 This Week
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    egos-2000

    egos-2000

    Helping students read all the code of a teaching operating system

    egos-2000 is a minimalist operating system built for educational and research purposes, offering a simplified kernel and runtime environment for exploring OS concepts. It runs on QEMU and is written in C/C++ with a focus on clarity and modularity. The system includes a basic filesystem, process management, and syscall interface, making it ideal for understanding core OS principles. egos-2000 is particularly well-suited for students learning about kernels, user-space interaction, and boot-time execution in a clean, hands-on environment.
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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 language with a strong safety model.
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    Linux Q83

    Linux Q83

    LinuxQ83 AMD64 and ARM64 (Raspberry Pi 4) (Radxa Orion O6)

    LinuxQ83 is a modern, lightweight Linux distribution focused on performance, usability, and innovation. It features the COSMIC Desktop, a next-generation environment written in Rust, offering high performance, stability, and memory safety. COSMIC provides a clean and customizable interface for efficient window and workspace management. The system is suitable for both older and newer hardware thanks to its low resource usage.
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    Downloads: 1,290 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    sealos

    sealos

    Sealos is a production-ready Kubernetes distribution

    A Cloud Operating System designed for managing cloud-native applications. Sealos['siːləs] is a cloud operating system distribution based on the Kubernetes kernel. Using the cloud like using a personal computer, reducing the cost of the cloud to 1/10 of the original.
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    joborun linux

    joborun linux

    Like Arch built from ground up with runit

    Arch as it was meant to be, simple, fast, secure, cutting edge - without the systemd labyrinth to choke it Utilizing runit (default) init and service supervision - alternatives offered Abiding to Arch goals and principles more than Arch-Linux itself Build from source in the complete absence of systemd and libraries using eudev, consolekit2, seatd, libudev-zero and other alternatives. Maintaining as much compatibility to pacman/Arch-Linux based packages as possible, so you have a wide variety of software to choose from (Arch, AUR, Obarun etc.) Graphic environment support for X11 OpenBox and JWM and in wayland labwc the true Openbox equivalent (see screenshot) For veteran sys-admins who appreciate building from source in as lean an environment as possible! ...
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    Downloads: 1,822 This Week
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