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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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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
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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os-tutorial
How to create an OS from scratch
os-tutorial is an open source educational project by cfenollosa that teaches the basics of building an operating system from scratch. The repository provides step-by-step lessons starting with bootloaders and moving through kernel development, interrupts, memory management, and system calls. Each tutorial is accompanied by clear explanations, code examples, and references to deepen understanding. -
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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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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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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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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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fswatch
A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends
...A monitor based on kqueue, an event notification interface introduced in FreeBSD 4.1 and supported on most BSD systems (including OS X). A monitor based on inotify, a Linux kernel subsystem that reports file system changes to applications. A monitor based on File Events Notification, a Solaris/Illumos kernel API that reports file events. A monitor based on ReadDirectoryChangesW, a Microsoft Windows API that reports changes to a directory. -
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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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The Astrid Book
The canonical reference for Astrid OS
The Astrid Book is the canonical reference project for Astrid OS. It documents the kernel, capsule model, host ABI, bus, and security model in one structured technical book. The project is built with mdBook, making it suitable for browsing, serving, and maintaining as developer documentation. It is intended to act as a stable reference for how Astrid OS components interact and how its core abstractions are defined. -
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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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LiteBox
A security-focused library OS supporting kernel execution
LiteBox is a security-focused “library OS” sandboxing project that aims to shrink the interface between an application and its host environment to reduce attack surface. Instead of relying solely on broad OS-level permissions, it focuses on isolating workloads by tightly controlling the boundary where code interacts with host services and system resources. The design emphasizes interoperability across different integration layers, describing a separation between “North” shims (how apps or runtimes plug in) and “South” platforms (where the sandbox runs), which helps the system adapt to multiple deployment contexts. ... -
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zohara
General-purpose OS based on Arch Linux with the Zen kernel
Zohara OS is a general-purpose operating system based on Arch Linux with the Zen kernel and custom optimizations, designed to give the best performance on any hardware. It has a Windows-familiar KDE Plasma desktop, its own Settings app and software store, and voice typing that runs on your own computer. Website: https://zohara-website.onrender.com/ Source code: https://github.com/Zohaib8090/zohara -
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Regata OS
The Regata OS is one of the best alternatives to Windows and macOS.
The Regata OS is a Linux kernel-based operating system focused on creators and players, as well as beginners in the personal computing world. The Regata OS is free and open source. Thanks to the community, it has evolved a lot. The Regata OS Store is one of the main differentiators of the Regata OS (when compared to other Linux distributions), a place where installation new applications is natural and intuitive, as happens when you want to get new extensions to your favorite browser or when want to get a new app on your Android smartphone, for example. ... -
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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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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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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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Xray_OS
Xray_OS is Angel's own normal Linux distro.
Xray_OS is an Arch Linux distribution dedicated to technical excellence over corporate agendas or intrusive guidelines. Delivered with Systemd-Liberated free from age-verification code or telemetry. Optimized for both workstations and gaming, Xray_OS includes its own low-latency BORE scheduler kernel (Linux Vita Kernel), NVIDIA autodetection, some DaVinci Resolve fixes for plasma, and full out-of-the-box support for Wayland, Xlibre, XFCE, Plasma, and SonicDE. Some users know about... -
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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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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. -
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Flash Linux 0.11 Talk
Annotated Unix system source code
flash-linux0.11-talk is an annotated walkthrough of the Linux 0.11 kernel that explains how a tiny Unix-like system boots, schedules, handles interrupts, and manages memory. The materials break down historically compact and dense code into digestible segments, with diagrams and call flows that trace execution from bootloader to user space. By focusing on a small, early kernel, the series reveals core OS concepts without the complexity of modern subsystems. -
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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. -
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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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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. ...
