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Windows 95 in Electron
Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows
windows95 in Electron is a quirky, nostalgia-driven project that ports a complete emulation of Microsoft Windows 95 into a desktop application that runs on modern operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux. It essentially wraps an emulator — preconfigured to boot Windows 95 — inside a user-friendly app built with web technologies so developers and hobbyists can explore the look and feel of that classic OS without needing legacy hardware or complicated setup. ... -
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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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Mabox Linux
Lightweight ready to use OpenBox Desktop Rolling-release Manjaro based
Mabox is a Manjaro based, desktop Linux distribution. The project ships with Openbox as the default desktop with pinch of customistations and home-brewed tools, like improved menu, side-panels and Mabox Control Center. Works great even on weaker computers. -
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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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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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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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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... -
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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,... -
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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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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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Pop!_OS
A project for managing all Pop!_OS sources
...Pop!_OS is known for its out-of-the-box support for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, as well as features like disk encryption, power management profiles, and streamlined workspace navigation. The repository also plays a key role in coordinating updates, managing dependencies, and maintaining compatibility across the system. -
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S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N.
S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. optimizes the macOS software update experience
super is a compact, high-performance tiling window manager for macOS that offers keyboard-driven workflow efficiency similar to tiling window managers found in Linux environments like i3 or dwm. Written in Swift, super leverages macOS APIs to allow users to manage windows in grid-like patterns, enabling rapid arrangement, resizing, and navigation without reaching for the mouse. It’s ideal for developers, power users, and keyboard-centric users who want to boost productivity within macOS’s graphical interface. -
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A security-focused, desktop-ready Arch Linux derivative. Hardened by default with XFCE, firewall, IDS, and VPN tooling preconfigured.
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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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Rhino Linux
Ubuntu-Based, Rolling Release w/ Pacstall & XFCE at its core
PLEASE NOTE: this is a mirror repository of our builder for hosting our images. For the full project page, visit https://github.com/rhino-linux --------------- Rhino Linux re-invents the Ubuntu experience as a rolling-release distribution built on a stable desktop environment. Pacstall is at the very heart of the distribution, providing essential packages such as the Linux kernel, Firefox, and distinctive Rhino Linux applications and theming. We use sane defaults. The XFCE Desktop... -
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Ufficio Zero Linux OS
Linux Desktop OS for professionals
Ufficio Zero Linux OS is a desktop operating system offered in many versions based on PCLinuxOS, Linux Mint and Devuan. We also have created Duplica, a Bare Metal Restore Solution. This distro has many packages for professional use. The project is managed by the Italian company SIITE SRLS and promoted by the Italian Association Boost Media APS. Ufficio Zero Linux OS is trademarked through the Linux Mark Institute. All rights reserved. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus... -
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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 too complex or heavy. -
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DiscoBSD
2.11BSD-based Unix-like OS for STM32 and PIC32 Microcontrollers
Discobsd is an experimental UNIX-like operating system derived from 4.4BSD-Lite2, focused on simplicity, transparency, and education. It strips away non-essential features and complexity to present a cleaner codebase suitable for study and hacking. Discobsd preserves the classic UNIX environment while allowing room for modern experimentation, such as porting to alternative platforms or introducing new subsystems. It is valuable for those interested in historical BSD systems, teaching OS... -
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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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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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ANTIRTOS
Function pointers queues classes library for Arduino
ANTIRTOS is a compact real-time operating system (RTOS) written in ANSI C for microcontrollers and embedded systems. It is designed to be simple, portable, and efficient, making it ideal for resource-constrained environments such as IoT devices, robotics, and educational hardware projects. ANTIRTOS features a basic scheduler, support for cooperative and preemptive multitasking, and offers portability across different CPU architectures with minimal changes. Its simplicity and clarity make it... -
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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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openFyde
openFyde supported hardware "x86 PC with Intel HD graphics
overlay-amd64-openfyde is the official overlay repository for the amd64 (x86_64) build of openFyde, a Chromium OS-based distribution tailored for developers, power users, and alternative devices outside of Google's supported ChromeOS hardware. openFyde offers a fast, secure, and web-centric desktop experience with support for Linux apps, Android containers, and cloud integration. This overlay includes the custom configurations and firmware patches necessary to optimize openFyde for generic... -
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Freeloader Linux
Freeloader Linux is a live bootable distro
Freeloader is a live Linux distribution to reclaim your PC and privacy. No hard disk required (boot from DVD/USB) -
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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.
