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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Aura Operating System
AuraOS, the Franco-English Operating System developed in C#
...It is designed to showcase how high-level languages like C# can be used to create low-level systems such as kernels, user interfaces, and file systems. Aura features a colorful, windowed graphical desktop environment with built-in applications, all running on a custom kernel built from scratch. It is not based on Linux or Windows, but rather developed as an independent system with its own structure and drivers. -
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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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operating system simple
Operating System Guide Dari 0
...Maintained by AzkaDev, the guide collects educational materials, links, and code snippets that walk learners through each major component of OS development—from bootloaders to kernel structures and system calls. While still evolving, the guide acts as a roadmap and inspiration hub for those wanting to explore low-level systems programming with a hands-on approach. -
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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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AzkaOs
Open source operating system based flutter and kernel zircon
AzkaOS is a personal and experimental operating system project aiming to create a lightweight and customizable platform written primarily in Python and C/C++. It combines ideas from traditional desktop OSes with a scripting-heavy approach, offering a hybrid system that prioritizes ease of customization and user scripting. Though still in its early stages, AzkaOS aims to support desktop environments, package management, and basic system utilities while enabling users to control behavior... -
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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. It only takes 3 minutes to launch a Talos cluster on your laptop inside Docker. Talos reduces your attack surface. It's minimal, hardened and... -
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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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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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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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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. -
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rCore-Tutorial-Book-v3
A book about how to write OS kernels in Rust easily
rCore-Tutorial-Book-v3 is the official book for the third version of the rCore OS tutorial series, a comprehensive educational resource for learning operating system development using the Rust programming language. Targeted at the RISC-V architecture, this tutorial guides learners step-by-step through building a minimal, safe, and modern OS kernel from scratch. It is written in Markdown and powered by mdBook, making it easy to read, navigate, and contribute to. The book combines theoretical explanations with practical exercises, allowing students and enthusiasts to understand core OS concepts like bootstrapping, memory management, and process scheduling through hands-on implementation. -
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CachyOS
Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution
CachyOS - Arch Linux Based Distribution With Heavy Optimizations & Multi-Architectures For Ultimate Desktop Experience Filesystems: - btrfs - zfs - ext4 - xfs - f2fs Our installer will auto detect which micro architecture your machine got, if x86-64-v3 or x86-64-v4 is detected it will automatically use the optimized packages, which is around a 10 % performance improvement. Desktop Environments: - KDE - CuteFish - i3 - Gnome - Openbox - Wayfire - Xfce - LXQT -... -
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...A Bluestar Linux software respository is also maintained in order to provide additional tools and applications when needed or requested. Bluestar provides the following features: Up-to-date Kernel Wide Variety of Applications - Always Current Versions Full Development / Desktop / Multimedia Environment
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PuppEX Dev/Noble/Trixie/Jammy/Slack
PuppEX Dev/Noble/Trixie/Slack/Jammy are remasters of Puppy Linux
ABOUT PuppEX Dev64/Noble64/Jammy64 - ROX/Mate/KDE Build 251014/251008/241031/241109 is made by me. Kernel 6.17.1-puppex/6.16.9-exton is used. Three PuppEX derivatives are built using the Trixie Build Script. COMPATIBLE WITH Devuan 5.0/Slackware 15.0, Debian 13 and Ubuntu 24.04/22.04 PuppEX Noble64 is compatible with Ubuntu 24.04. PuppEX Slack64 is compatible with Slackware 15.0. PuppEX Jammy64 with Ubuntu 22.04. PuppEX Trixie64 is compatible with Debian 13. -
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ArchEX Linux Live System
ArchEX is a new (260108/260106) Linux Live System based on Arch Linux.
...Slideshow: https://archex.exton.se/calamares-slideshow-new.gif USB INSTALLATION Install ArchEX to a USB Pen Drive with persistence: https://archex.exton.se/install-usb/ BENEFITS of ArchEX/Arch Linux "Cutting Edge"-software and speed. Run the latest kernel. Always. Default locale/language: English A YouTube video about ArchEX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPlHLEr6Ld0&feature=youtu.be READ MORE: https://archex.exton.se - three (3) versions
