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awesome-os

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Books and Guides

Linux Kernel specific Resources

Online books

Papers

Tutorials

Video Tutorials

Websites

  • Genodians - Stories around the Genode Operating System
  • Lowlevel - A wiki about creating an OS from scratch. In German
  • POSIX - Standards for maintaining compatibility between operating systems
  • Rust OSDev - Newsletter about OS development in Rust
  • OSRTOS - List of open source real-time operating systems
  • Multicians - The Multicians web site presents the story of the Multics operating system for people interested in the system's history
  • os-dev - Wiki with everything you need to know
  • Lowlevel - A wiki about creating an OS from scratch. In German

Conferences / Presentations

Email

Linux specific

Blogposts

Debugging

Email

Tools

  • b4 - based patch workflows
  • clang-extract
  • hackermail
  • kworkflow - reduce the overhead with infrastructure setup for Linux development
  • virtme-ng - quickly build and run kernels inside a virtualized snapshot of your live system

Video Tutorials

Open Source Operating Systems

Hobby

  • AquilaOS - Operating System that is designed to be POSIX compliant and mostly ISA transparent
  • House - Haskell User's Operating System and Environment.
  • KolibriOS - MenuetOS fork
  • Týndur - Hobby operating system build by the Lowlevel community. Written in C and Pascal

Popular Operating Systems

  • FreeDOS - DOS compatible OS
  • Minix - MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix) - Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture
  • NetBSD - Unix-like operating system based on the BSD
  • OpenBSD - Unix-like operating system based on the BSD
  • Plan 9 from Bell Labs - An OS from the creators of Unix, extending the Unix philosophy of "everything is a file" with a network-centric file system, namespaces and distributed computing.
  • ReactOS - A free Windows-compatible Operating System
  • SystemV - AT&T UNIX System V Source Code
  • Plan 9 from Bell Labs - An OS from the creators of Unix, extending the Unix philosophy of "everything is a file" with a network-centric file system, namespaces and distributed computing.
  • Darwin XNU - The XNU kernel source code for use in MacOS and iOS
  • Haiku - BeOS inspired OS
  • Linux - Linux kernel
  • MS-DOS - The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0
  • AROS - Research Operating System is a lightweight, efficient, and flexible desktop operating system, designed to help you make the most of your computer. It's an independent, portable and free project, aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS at the API level
  • Clive - A unikernel OS inspired by Plan9 and Nix developed at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid
  • dahliaOS - dahliaOS is a modern, secure, lightweight and responsive operating system, combining the best of GNU/Linux and Fuchsia OS.
  • Embox - Configurable operating system kernel designed for resource constrained and embedded systems.
  • ExectOS - sys/exectos) - ExectOS is a modern, EFI-enabled, general purpose operating system written from scratch and implementing the XT architecture. It runs on x86 and x86_64 architectures and provides NT drivers compatibility layer.
  • Fiwix - A UNIX-like kernel for the i386 architecture.
  • FreeRTOS - IoT operating system for microcontrollers, by Amazon.
  • Genode - A FOSS operating system framework consisting of a microkernel abstraction layer and a collection of userspace components
  • GreenteaOS - A free OS designed to be compatible with Windows executables
  • HarveyOS - A distributed operating system
  • Hubris - Hubris is an operating system for microcontrollers developed by Oxide Computer Company in Rust
  • Illumos - illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features for downstream distributions (like OmniOS, OpenIndiana, and Tribblix)
  • Jehanne - OS inspired by Plan9, 9front and Harvey OS
  • Mimiker - Simple unix-like operating system for education and research purposes. MIPS microkernel.
  • NESOS - An OS for the Nintendo Entertainment System!
  • Sanos - Sanos is a minimalistic 32-bit x86 operating system kernel for network server appliances running on standard PC hardware.
  • skiftOS - A simple, handmade, operating system with a graphical user interface.
  • Sculpt OS - Genode based OS
  • LemonOS - OS) - UNIX-like 64-bit operating system written in C++.
  • MenuetOS - Hobby OS supporting 32 and 64 bit, written in Assembly language
  • MyXomycota - Monolithic kernel in C
  • PathOS - Hobby OS based on MikeOS, written in Assembly Language
  • PonyOS - ToaruOS-based, My Little Pony themed OS
  • Snowdrop OS - a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language
  • Sortix - Hobby OS in C and C++ by Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen
  • Syllable - Successor of AtheOS, Syllable is designed in the tradition of the Amiga and BeOS, but built using many parts from the GNU project and Linux.
  • Visopsys - Open Source Hobby OS developed since 1997
  • Xv6 - A teaching operating system developed in the summer of 2006 for MIT's operating systems course
  • BareMetal - 64 bit operating system written in Assembly for x86-64
  • KolibriOS - MenuetOS fork
  • 9front - A fork of Plan 9, designed for distributed, networked computing.
  • AlmeidaOS - x86-64 OS with its own bootloader, scheduler and limited libc all written from scratch
  • AurixOS - A small multiplatform Operating System designed for developers and creators
  • Basekernel - A simple OS kernel for research, teaching, and fun
  • BoneOS - OS for everyone built by everyone
  • Bottlerocket OS - Linux-based OS meant for hosting containers.
  • Brutal - An operating system inspired by brutalist design that combines the ideals of UNIX from the 1970s with modern technology and engineering
  • Charlotte - CharlotteOS kernel in Rust
  • Cyjon - pure x64 assembly language operating system (related to Fern-Night project).
  • Dreamos64 - An x86-64 hobby os built from scratch
  • Fern-Night - C language operating system (related to Cyjon project).
  • Fomos - Experimental OS, built with Rust.
  • GarnOS - Hobby OS powered by a modular kernel.
  • Gloire - An OS built with the Ironclad kernel (a partially formally verified kernel with a small footprint for general-purpose and embedded OSes, written in SPARK and Ada) and GNU tools.
  • HalideOS - experimental operating system written entirely from scratch.
  • HelenOS - multikernel multiserver OS
  • Interim - Minimalist OS with concepts from Lisp machines and Plan9
  • JSD-OS - A small operating system for 32 bit x86.
  • Animal - 32 bit multithreaded operating system (formerly Gramado)
  • Arikoto - A Limine protocol, x86_64, C based personal Operating System development project that is inspired by and is aiming to have a similar nature to ToaruOS
  • Asterinas - ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, based on what the authors call a "framekernel architecture"
  • Animal - 32 bit multithreaded operating system (formerly Gramado)
  • AurixOS - A small multiplatform Operating System designed for developers and creators
  • cavOS - Amd64 operating system in C. Trying to make a full OS, with a simple and readable codebase
  • Hermit - A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel
  • Jehanne - OS inspired by Plan9, 9front and Harvey OS
  • KiddieOS - UNIX-like 64-bit operating system written in Assembly, C++.
  • KnightOS - for z80 calculators
  • L4re - Operating system and hypervisor for security/safety-critical and virtualization-enabled applications.
  • Maestro - Operating system written in Rust, aiming to be a lightweight version of Linux
  • Mako - Hobby OS for x86 from scratch, written in C
  • MaslOS - A 64 bit GUI multitasking Hobby OS written mostly from scratch in C++ and a bit of C/ASM.
  • MeetixOS - A hobby OS written in modern C++20 which aims to be Unix-like.
  • MentOS - An educational 32-bit linux-like Operating System.
  • Minoca OS - General purpose OS, written in C
  • MollenOS - MollenOS/Vali is a modern operating system that is built with focus on abstraction and a modular design, allowing anyone to port it to any architecture. It currently targets the x86-32 and x86-64 platform
  • Nanos - Unikernel that is linux-compatible, written in C
  • NodeOS - OS using NodeJS and Linux