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k23 is a microkernel-based operating system project written in Zig, an emerging systems programming language focused on safety, simplicity, and performance. k23 explores the design of modern OS features like message-passing, memory protection, and modular service construction using Zig’s powerful low-level capabilities. It is an experimental and educational project intended to show how Zig can be used for robust, readable systems programming while enabling contributors to rethink traditional OS structures from the ground up.

Hermit Kernel is the core component of HermitCore, a Rust-based unikernel that runs directly on hypervisors or bare-metal systems to support high-performance cloud and HPC applications. This repository contains the microkernel’s implementation, optimized for running Rust applications natively in a lightweight, single-address-space environment. Hermit Kernel is designed to reduce latency and overhead by avoiding traditional OS abstractions, while still providing essential services such as...

HelenOS is a portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system written from scratch. It decomposes key operating system functionality such as file systems, networking, device drivers and graphical user interface into a collection of fine-grained user space components that interact with each other via message passing. A failure or crash of one component does not directly harm others.

Xyris is a microkernel-based operating system developed with a focus on modularity, simplicity, and modern code practices. Written in C++, Xyris separates drivers and system services into isolated components using message passing, in line with microkernel philosophy. It’s designed as a research and hobbyist OS, with a clean codebase and early implementations of multitasking, system calls, and filesystem abstractions.

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 message-passing flexibility with the monolithic performance and direct hardware control typical of Unix-like systems. XNU handles essential kernel responsibilities such as memory management, multitasking, interprocess communication (IPC), device I/O, system calls, security enforcement, and scheduling across both single and multi-core architectures.

resea is a small, message-passing-based operating system kernel designed with microkernel principles in mind. Written in C with minimal dependencies, it emphasizes modularity, isolation, and simplicity. resea includes a basic POSIX-like interface and supports multitasking, IPC, and user-space services. It serves as both a microkernel OS experiment and a platform for learning about low-level system design without the complexity of larger operating systems.

Lorena es un sistema operativo de tipo microkernel, escrito en C, C++ y Ensamblador y basado en NextDivel.

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.

M String is a microkernel based on some part of oskit libs. It's designed to be small, simple, and have a simple API for server interprocess communication.

yaMOS stands for: yet another "My Operating System". This is a hobby Operating System, let's see to what it develops... At the moment it's only a kernel written in C++ and Assemly.

OOSys is a plan to create an object-oriented operating system based on classes and objects instead of files and programs, with a strong focus on both clean design and practical usefulness. As a start, we are developing a microkernel.

The MyNOS project aims at developing a new and different operating system, based on high-level languages. MyNOS will be based on the OCaml bytecode interpreter. We'd like to explore microkernel architecture and new language definition too.

IFEM (Industrial, Fault tolerant, EMbedded) is a modern OS with a hybrid kernel design benefitting from ideas such as Pure Microkernel and Exokernel, aiming industrial application, fault-tolerance, embedded applications and perfect modularity.

Open Source microkernel for ia32 architecture. Basically this is a full functional operating system implementation using GNU C and nasm. Fully commented in spanish and with external documents explaining system calls, library functions, design, etc.

ManRiX is an open source microkernel based operating system with POSIX interface. It is written from scratch using C and Assembly. Microkernel contains just few basic components of an Operating System while others are implemented as user process.

The Dynamo Kernel Project intends to create a functional yet modular, powerful yet scalable microkernel for home, business and industry.

Argos is a middleware system that lets you easily create and deploy software components, webpages, widgets, J2ME applications and panels and bind them together into services. Argos uses a microkernel that enables developers to extend the system functiona

Open source NGOSS project that is devoted to build open, integrated seamlessly and collaborative NGOSS solution.We adopt a Microkernel, Pure Plugin and Web Oriented architecture based on OSGi, Eclipse and REST to realise NGOSS concepts.

This is a simulation of an open CPU, called 67-80-85. It tries to implement a simple, efficient CPU. It includes the simulator, an assembler, a sample code for a boot loader (ROM), a microkernel prototype and tests. - "The 3-legged shinning steel horse

The aim of our project is to create a portable microkernel and a set of OS services that allow good local performance, multiple concurrent operative system personalities (ie UNIX and a native interface) and easy integration of distributed components.

SIMDOS stands for SImple Microkernel Distributed Operating System. SIMDOS is a micro-kernel based operating system which implements the concepts of Distributed Shared Memory at the kernel level to provide seemless addition on cluster nodes.

Pistrix (lat. Shark) is a Open Source project of Operation System, written on Assembly and C Languages. The OS model is microkernel, because the basic task of the Pistrix is Speed and Small Size.

OsZ - microkernel operating sustem written in assembly language. Requires IBM-PC-compatible computer with at least 4mb or RAM and x386 (or better x86 compatible) processor.

MDF is microkernel operating system. Module architecture minimalistic design.