Build your own OS or distro.
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🌐 The Internet Computer! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable.
interview
📚 C/C++ 技术面试基础知识总结，包括语言、程序库、数据结构、算法、系统、网络、链接装载库等知识及面试经验、招聘、内推等信息。This repository is a summary of the basic knowledge of recruiting job seekers and beginners in the direction of C/C++ technology, including language, program library, data structure, algorithm, system, network, link loading library, interview experience, recruitment, recommendation, etc.
serenity
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
anoma
Reference implementation of Anoma
reactos
A free Windows-compatible Operating System
openfang
Open-source Agent Operating System
blog_os
Writing an OS in Rust
redox
Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox
The-Complete-FAANG-Preparation
Dive into this repository, a comprehensive resource covering Data Structures, Algorithms, 450 DSA by Love Babbar, Striver DSA sheet, Apna College DSA Sheet, and FAANG Questions! 🚀 That's not all! We've got Technical Subjects like Operating Systems, DBMS, SQL, Computer Networks, and Object-Oriented Programming, all waiting for you.
bottlerocket
An operating system designed for hosting containers
bazzite
Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.
ravynos
An open-source OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
tock
A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers
build
The official build framework for the Armbian Linux distribution. This repository contains the complete toolchain and scripts required to compile custom OS images from source, including kernel configuration, U-Boot handling, and board-specific tweaks for various ARM and ARM64 single-board computers.
Olares
Open-Source Personal Cloud OS for Always-On Agents
oshi
Native Operating System and Hardware Information
IncludeOS
A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services
unikraft
A next-generation cloud native kernel designed to unlock best-in-class performance, security primitives and efficiency savings.
lk
LK embedded kernel
egos-2000
Envision a future where everyone can read all the code of an educational operating system.
kerla
A new operating system kernel with Linux binary compatibility written in Rust.
maestro
Lightweight, Linux-compatible kernel, written in Rust to leverage the safety of the typesystem. Aiming to remove as much legacy as possible while supporting most usecases
ZimaOS
A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS_
skift
🥑 A modern delightful operating system (mirror)
PureDarwin
Darwin is the Open Source core of macOS, and PureDarwin is a community project to extend Darwin into a complete, usable operating system.
vinix
Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language
ZealOS
The Zeal Operating System is a modernized fork of the 64-bit Temple Operating System, TempleOS.
haiku
The Haiku operating system. (Pull requests will be ignored; patches may be sent to https://review.haiku-os.org).
awesome-os
A list of operating systems and stuff
rCore-Tutorial-v3
Let's write an OS which can run on RISC-V in Rust from scratch!
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