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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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    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...
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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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    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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    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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    NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Module

    NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Module

    NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source

    ...Note that the kernel interface layers of the kernel modules must be built with the toolchain that was used to build the kernel. This code base is shared with NVIDIA's proprietary drivers, and various processing is performed on the shared code to produce the source code that is published here. When packaged in the NVIDIA .run installation package, the OS-agnostic component is provided as a binary.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Moss

    Moss

    Rust Linux-compatible kernel

    Moss Kernel is an open-source operating system kernel project designed to explore modern OS design and provide a foundation for experimental system research and development. Rather than replicating traditional monolithic kernels exactly, it emphasizes modularity, safety, and simplicity by incorporating well-structured subsystems for memory management, scheduling, and device abstraction that are easy for contributors to understand and extend.
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    Dokany

    Dokany

    User mode file system for Windows

    Dokany is the fork of Dokan, a user mode file system library that lets you easily and safely develop new file systems on the Windows OS. When creating new file systems on Windows, you need to develop a device driver that works in the kernel mode on Windows-- a difficult task without technical Windows Kernel knowledge. Dokany makes it easy. It enables you to create these file systems without device drivers, and is completely free to download. It is similar to FUSE, and also offers compatibility with a FUSE file system.
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    Atmosphère

    Atmosphère

    Atmosphère is a work-in-progress customized firmware for the Nintendo

    Atmosphère is an open-source custom firmware platform for the Nintendo Switch that enables advanced system customization, homebrew development, and extended functionality beyond the official operating system. It replaces and modifies key components of the system software, including the bootloader, kernel modules, and system services, allowing developers to hook into and extend system behavior. The project is composed of multiple subsystems such as Fusée for bootloading, Exosphère for secure...
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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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    Hardenwing OS

    Hardenwing OS

    Hardened Linux distribution based on Debian

    Hardenwing OS is a Debian-based Linux distribution focused on security. It adopts a multi-layered defense architecture against cyber attacks, incorporating aggressive mitigation techniques alongside kernel, system, and network hardening configurations. The distribution offers comprehensive security measures including BadUSB protection, permission hardening services, package manager hardening, module blacklisting, PAM and sudoers hardening.
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    Lingmo OS
    Lingmo GNU/Linux (Lingmo OS) is a desktop based Linux operating system developed based on the open-source Debian kernel and adapted to the amd64 architecture. It has a beautiful desktop environment, software that is compatible with the desktop environment, and a unified UI style. The goal of Lingmo GNU/Linux is to provide users with a luxurious and practical desktop environment as well as a smooth experience on low performance hardware.
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    Downloads: 684 This Week
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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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    Zephyr Project

    Zephyr Project

    Scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures

    The Zephyr Project is a new generation real-time operating system (RTOS) that supports multiple hardware architectures. It is based on a small-footprint kernel specially designed for use on resource-constrained and embedded systems. The Zephyr OS can be used for a wide range of applications: from simple embedded environmental sensors and LED wearables to sophisticated embedded controllers, smart watches, and IoT wireless applications.
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    ToaruOS

    ToaruOS

    Hobby operating system, bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library

    ...Through out the project, ToaruOS has also attracted quite a few beginner OS developers who have tried to use it as a reference.
    Downloads: 8 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. ...
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    Alien-OS

    Alien-OS

    Alien-OS GNU/Linux Operating System

    Alien-OS Regolith based on Debian 12.13 Bookworm with integrated MX-Tools. use either sysVinit or systemd. User:Pass demo:demo root:root Installation: open a terminal and type "sudo minstall" OEM Installation: open a terminal and type "sudo minstall --oem" ----- https://www.alien-os.com https://www.alien-tec.com https://distrowatch.com/alienos ----- Please support us with your donation. Thank you. :-) Monero...
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    Downloads: 75 This Week
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    Zenclora OS

    Zenclora OS

    Debian-based desktop distro optimized for stability and daily use

    Zenclora is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution optimized for stability and daily use. Zenclora offers simplified package and system management commands to make Linux usage easier; it avoids unnecessary complexity while providing control to the user. Check the website for details: https://nixovena.org/zenclora
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    Downloads: 75 This Week
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    Exton|OS

    Exton|OS

    Exton|OS 64 bit based on Ubuntu/Debian with KDE Plasma 4:6.6.2

    ...You can't do it in VirtualBox/VMware. KERNEL Kernel 6.19.8-amd64-exton-os is used.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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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. ...
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