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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.
    Downloads: 17 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 17 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 34 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    eduOS-rs

    eduOS-rs

    A teaching operating system written in Rust

    ...It serves as a practical and educational tool that demonstrates key OS concepts like memory management, multitasking, privilege separation, and system call handling in a safe and modern language. 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.
    Downloads: 2 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...
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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.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    rCore-Tutorial-Book-v3

    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.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Aura Operating System

    Aura Operating System

    AuraOS, the Franco-English Operating System developed in C#

    Aura Operating System is a GUI-based, object-oriented operating system written 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.
    Downloads: 22 This Week
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    BluestarLinux
    ...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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    Dimensional Rift OS

    Dimensional Rift OS

    Privacy,Security Focused Distro For I2P

    Rift Project Abandoned – Available for Handover The Rift project has been abandoned. Version 2.0 remains incomplete, but a prototype is available. I am considering fully handing over the project to someone who can continue its development. Those interested can contact me directly. - root0emir _________________________________________________ Dimensional Rift is a Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution focused on privacy and security. The system is built entirely around I2P...
    Downloads: 33 This Week
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    Onix OS
    onix is a minimalist educational operating system written in Rust, created to demonstrate low-level system design in a safe and modern language. It covers kernel essentials such as interrupts, memory management, and multitasking, and includes a tiny Unix-like shell for user interaction. onix is tailored for x86_64 systems and runs in QEMU, making it ideal for learning OS internals while benefiting from Rust’s type safety and concurrency guarantees. It’s a great project for students or...
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    MOOS

    MOOS

    C# x64 operating system programming with the .NET native

    MOOS (Meta Operating System) is an academic and experimental OS designed for clarity and extensibility, focusing on simplicity and modular construction. Written in Rust, MOOS provides a safe and modern platform to explore low-level system design, with a minimal but functional kernel that supports multitasking, a virtual memory manager, and a tiny standard library. It targets x86_64 and runs on QEMU, making it suitable for students and developers learning about OS fundamentals or testing novel ideas in kernel development.
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    linux-factory

    linux-factory

    Framework used to create custom debian linux operating systems

    linux-factory is a utility designed to streamline the process of building and customizing Linux kernel images using a simple, scriptable environment. It provides a modular framework for configuring kernel options, applying patches, and generating bootable images, making it ideal for embedded developers, kernel hackers, and OS maintainers. With a strong emphasis on repeatability and automation, linux-factory reduces the manual overhead of compiling and deploying Linux kernels across various...
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    Cosmos

    Cosmos

    Cosmos is an operating system "construction kit"

    Cosmos is an operating system "construction kit" made for Visual Studio 2022. Build your own OS using managed languages such as C#, VB.NET, and more! Cosmos (C# Open Source Managed Operating System) is an operating system development kit that uses Visual Studio as its development environment. Despite C# in the name any .NET-based language can be used including VB.NET, Fortran, Delphi Prism, IronPython, F# and more. Cosmos itself and the kernel routines are primarily written in C#, and thus the Cosmos name. Cosmos is not an operating system in the traditional sense, but instead, it is an "Operating System Development Kit". ...
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    System Programming Roadmap

    System Programming Roadmap

    A roadmap to teach myself compiler dev, malware reverse engineering

    system-programming-roadmap is a curated roadmap and resource guide designed to help learners navigate the complex world of system-level programming. It aggregates high-quality tutorials, books, project ideas, and documentation links related to topics such as operating systems, file systems, kernel development, networking, and compilers. This repository is ideal for beginners looking to structure their learning or for experienced developers seeking to expand their knowledge in a structured and progressive manner.
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    Kerla

    Kerla

    A new operating system kernel with Linux binary compatibility

    Kerla is an experimental operating system kernel written in Rust with a Linux-compatible syscall interface. It aims to run Linux binaries in user space without relying on a traditional Linux kernel. Kerla combines the safety guarantees of Rust with a familiar POSIX-like programming model, making it a unique exploration into safe systems programming. Though early in development, it supports basic userspace execution and is a promising proof-of-concept for running Linux userland programs in a fully Rust-based kernel.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    pranaOS

    pranaOS

    Smart Operating System for x86, ARM, Mobile, Watch

    pranaOS is a hobby operating system built from scratch in C and C++, intended to teach and demonstrate operating system fundamentals such as process control, memory management, and kernel bootstrapping. It is designed for the x86_64 architecture and features a custom shell, task scheduler, and keyboard driver. With a strong focus on education, pranaOS serves as a base for experimenting with kernel development and learning how different subsystems interact in a functioning OS.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    XStreamOS

    XStreamOS

    Server and Desktop OS based on illumos kernel

    XStreamOS and XStream Desktop are Sonicle effort to mantain a distribution of the illumos kernel, featuring the ZFS fileystem, Crossbow network architecture, virtualization, zones, and a starting point to contribute and develop the illumos kernel. Upon XStreamOS, Sonicle mantains full featured products such as XStream Server and XStream Storage.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    XNU

    XNU

    Legacy mirror of Darwin Kernel

    Darwin XNU is the hybrid kernel that powers Apple’s macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS operating systems, forming the foundation of the Darwin open-source core. The name XNU stands for X is Not Unix, highlighting its origin as a combination of multiple kernel technologies—primarily the Mach microkernel from Carnegie Mellon University, integrated with substantial components from FreeBSD and Apple’s proprietary IOKit driver framework. This hybrid architecture merges the microkernel model’s...
    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    Haiway

    Haiway

    Haiway Edge Computing OS

    Haiway is a simple operating system written from scratch in C with the goal of helping learners understand OS development fundamentals. Targeting x86_64 systems and running in a bare-metal environment like QEMU, Haiway implements its own bootloader, kernel, and essential subsystems such as memory management, interrupt handling, and user process execution. Designed to be lightweight and readable, the project emphasizes clarity and modularity, making it a useful base for experimentation or educational exploration into low-level systems programming.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    XBOOT

    XBOOT

    The extensible bootloader for embedded system

    xboot is a lightweight, modular embedded operating system designed for ARM-based microcontrollers and SoCs. It provides a complete runtime environment including a small kernel, device drivers, file systems, networking stack, GUI system, and scripting interface. xboot aims to be both educational and practical, offering a clear and portable codebase that can be adapted to various embedded platforms. Its minimal design and Lua scripting support make it suitable for quick prototyping and custom firmware development.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    PowerNex

    PowerNex

    An operating system written in D

    PowerNex is a microkernel operating system written entirely in the Nim programming language. Designed as a learning and research project, it explores OS development using a modern high-level systems language while still offering low-level control. PowerNex focuses on modularity, simplicity, and code clarity. While still in its early stages, the project includes basic kernel functionality, including memory management, task switching, and a custom bootloader, offering insight into building an OS from the ground up using newer programming paradigms.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    FlingOS

    FlingOS

    An educational operating system written in C#

    FlingOS is an educational operating system and framework aimed at teaching students and developers how operating systems work, using C# and a bit of C++ and assembly. It allows developers to build kernels in a managed, high-level language and understand the entire bootstrapping and runtime process from scratch. FlingOS is particularly focused on making OS development more accessible by bridging the gap between high-level languages and low-level hardware programming.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    GALAX-E

    GALAX-E

    A standard Ubuntu redistribution

    The GALAX-E operating system is built on the Linux Kernel and is currently in alpha mode. This is basically a redistributed Ubuntu that has been customized to support a certain look and is really not under development as of yet.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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