Notable Projects
This page maintains a list of mature hobby operating system projects considered to be notable. A hobby operating system is considered notable if it made some considerable progress (e.g. has had a full release, is self-hosting, has been reported on outside of the hobby OSdev world, etc.) or if it has achieved such notability within the operating system development community as a useful answer to the question, "I want to see what kind of operating systems you guys have built". It should have a relatively stable kernel and drivers, and some userspace applications. They are usually written by the members of this community, but not limited to.
Everyone is welcome to add their own projects to the regular Projects list of all hobbyist operating systems.
More advanced and successful alternative operating systems are listed at Advanced Projects page.
Notable Hobby Operating Systems
BareMetalBareMetal is a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers. The OS is written entirely in Assembly while applications can be written in Assembly or C/C++. The two main purposes of BareMetal are for educational uses in learning low-level OS programming in 64-bit Assembly and to be used as a base for a high-speed data processing node. Source code is well documented and freely available. As of version 0.4.9 BareMetal OS officially supports multiple processors, memory management, and Ethernet communications. |
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