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    StartOS

    StartOS

    Linux server OS optimized for self-hosting

    StartOS is a sovereign, self-hosted operating system built by Start9 Labs to empower individuals with digital independence. Designed to run on personal servers, it provides a privacy-first interface for installing, managing, and running decentralized applications without needing technical expertise. StartOS includes services like Bitcoin nodes, messaging platforms, file hosting, and password managers, all running locally and without third-party control. With a user-friendly UI and strong...
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    ProzillaOS

    ProzillaOS

    Web-based operating system inspired by Ubuntu Linux and Windows

    ProzillaOS is a lightweight, user-friendly Linux distribution based on Arch Linux, designed to offer a fast, minimal, and easy-to-use experience out of the box. Tailored for new users and enthusiasts who enjoy the power of Arch with added usability, ProzillaOS provides a curated desktop environment with pre-installed essential applications, graphical tools for package management, and a clean, modern aesthetic. Its goal is to maintain a balance between simplicity and customization, making it...
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    Community Linux 64

    Community Linux Distro

    Boot from USB, stay on the USB with overlay file system that is automatically added from free space. Result: an installation less 64 bit Linux Distro. See quick boot: https://sourceforge.net/projects/community-linux-64/files/video_20250404_013524.mp4 Update: 32G_1.0.0.img.gz uploaded, suitable for direct 'dd' operation on a 32 Gig USB drive. (Remember to decompress the image first with gunzip) Windows users may create this USB with Rufus in 'dd' mode. Target audience: All PCs, especially Mini PCs, Embedded PCs, Kiosks, Info Terminals, Cash registers ... etc.
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    goon-linux

    The full GNU/Goon/Linux distribution

    Includes source code to the distro, kernel and compiler included. GNU/Goon/Linux is a m68k based distribution also available for PowerMacs and SGI hardware.
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    Puter

    Puter

    The Internet OS! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable

    Puter is a browser-based personal operating system and file explorer built entirely with web technologies. It mimics the experience of a traditional desktop OS, allowing users to manage files, launch apps, and interact with a graphical interface—all within a web browser. The project is designed to be both functional and nostalgic, combining the aesthetic of retro operating systems with modern development tools like React and Tailwind CSS. Puter offers a self-hostable, customizable...
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    OctoPi

    OctoPi

    Raspberry PI distro for controlling 3D printers over the web

    OctoPrint is a snappy web interface for your 3D printer that allows you to control and monitor all aspects of your 3D printer and print jobs right from within any browser on your network. OctoPi includes the OctoPrint software for 3d printer and a mjpg-streamer, which can be used to stream JPEG files over an IP-based network. Includes RaspiCam support. Learn how you can support OctoPrint here. https://octoprint.org/support-octoprint/
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    Nexa Linux

    Nexa Linux

    Simple. Connected. Yours.

    Nexa Linux is a lightning fast, user friendly and community driven distribution, based on Ubuntu, made for beginners, switching from Windows or experts.
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    Pop!_OS

    Pop!_OS

    A project for managing all Pop!_OS sources

    Pop!_OS repository serves as the central source code hub for Pop!_OS, a Linux distribution developed by System76 and based on Ubuntu, designed to deliver a polished and performance-oriented desktop experience. It contains packaging, configuration, and system-level customizations that define how Pop!_OS behaves and differentiates itself from standard Ubuntu installations. The project integrates system tools, hardware optimizations, and user interface components into a cohesive operating...
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    OpenFang

    OpenFang

    Open-source Agent Operating System

    OpenFang is an open-source agent operating system designed to orchestrate autonomous AI agents and workflows in a structured, production-oriented environment. Written primarily in Rust, the project focuses on building a high-performance runtime where multiple specialized agents can collaborate to complete complex computational or development tasks. It aims to move beyond simple chat-based agents by providing infrastructure for persistent agent memory, task coordination, and scalable...
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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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    LxPup - Puppy Linux + LXDE

    LxPup - Puppy Linux + LXDE

    Puppy Linux with the LXDE desktop environment

    LxPup is a version of Puppy Linux using the LXDE desktop environment and is an updated “descendent” of loukitchou’s LxPup13.01. LxPup offers the Openbox window manager, LxPanel panel manager and PCManFM file manager. There are various "flavours" of LxPup some built as derivatives of official Puppy Linux builds (based on Slackware and Ubuntu components) and one a new woof-ce build (Slackware based). The various flavours offer different kernels and access to the software repositories of...
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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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    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...
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    Design OS

    Design OS

    The missing design process between your product idea and your codebase

    Design OS is an open-source product planning and UI design framework that sits at the intersection of design thinking and generative AI, guiding creators through a repeatable process from product idea to structured design deliverables. It fills what the maintainers describe as the “missing design process” in AI-first development, helping users define product visions, model data, map user flows, and lay out interfaces before a coding agent begins implementation. The tool is poised to produce...
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    EVE OS

    EVE OS

    EVE is Edge Virtualization Engine

    EVE is an open-source, secure, and container-optimized operating system for edge computing, developed by the LF Edge foundation. It enables enterprises to deploy and manage edge applications on heterogeneous hardware platforms using a zero-trust architecture. EVE supports virtual machines, containers, and unikernels while being hardware-agnostic, making it suitable for industrial gateways, edge clusters, and IoT devices. With its remote provisioning, lifecycle management, and built-in...
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    Bottlerocket OS

    Bottlerocket OS

    An operating system designed for hosting containers

    Bottlerocket is a free and open-source Linux-based operating system meant for hosting containers. Bottlerocket focuses on security and maintainability, providing a reliable, consistent, and safe platform for container-based workloads. This is a reflection of what we've learned building operating systems and services at Amazon. The base operating system has just what you need to run containers reliably, and is built with standard open-source components. Bottlerocket-specific additions focus...
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    HiddenVM

    HiddenVM

    HiddenVM — Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace

    If at any time Tails pushes an unexpected update, and HiddenVM is not yet updated for it, and you are stuck with a new Tails and no working HiddenVM version, you can re-download and temporarily use an earlier version of Tails until HiddenVM is updated. There are archived direct HTTP download mirrors of Tails images, archived official torrents with PGP signatures, or third-party archives at linuxtracker.org or fosstorrents.com, etc. (Always verify third-party torrents with archived official...
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    Horust

    Horust

    Horust is a supervisor / init system written in rust

    Horust is a Rust-based init system for Linux, designed to be fast, simple, and secure. Unlike traditional init systems, Horust focuses on stateless configuration using TOML files and aims to bring predictability and ease of use to system boot and service management. Written with Rust’s safety guarantees, Horust provides features like dependency handling, parallel service startup, and logging, making it suitable for containers, embedded systems, or minimal Linux environments where systemd is...
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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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    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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    cross-platform-terminal-characters

    cross-platform-terminal-characters

    All the characters that work on most terminals

    cross-platform-terminal-characters is a utility library that provides consistent, cross-platform terminal characters such as checkmarks, arrows, and box-drawing symbols for use in command-line interfaces. It ensures that terminal UI components look correct and legible across operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux, accounting for encoding and font inconsistencies. By automatically selecting fallback characters when necessary, it simplifies the process of designing beautiful, portable CLI tools.
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    OSHI

    OSHI

    Native Operating System and Hardware Information

    OSHI is a free JNA-based (native) Operating System and Hardware Information library for Java. It does not require the installation of any additional native libraries and aims to provide a cross-platform implementation to retrieve system information, such as OS version, processes, memory and CPU usage, disks and partitions, devices, sensors, etc.
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    comal-linux

    comal-linux

    Simple Muslim GNU/Linux Distro

    Comal-Linux is a Linux distribution derived from Slackware Linux. It is packaged as a live CD. Comal-Linux is an unofficial Muslim edition of Slackware.
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    StateOS

    StateOS

    Free real-time operating system (RTOS) for microcontrollers

    StateOS is a compact, open-source real-time operating system designed for embedded systems and written in ANSI C. It supports cooperative and preemptive multitasking, making it ideal for running multiple real-time tasks on microcontrollers. StateOS emphasizes clarity and ease of integration with existing projects and provides a full set of synchronization primitives, timers, and message-passing tools. It's widely used in industrial and academic settings for prototyping and low-level firmware...
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    AmogOS

    AmogOS

    Among-us themed OS. As seen on Reddit and Youtube

    A parody OS inspired by Among Us. (pronounced A-mog-O-S).
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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