Operating Systems
Operating systems run your computer!
There are lots of innovative OS projects but only a few are really used.
Projects
Desktop
Aside from Linux, Windows, MacOS and derivatives... https://www.ipredia.org/os/
- IlluminOS
An operating system that claims to provide advanced system debugging, a next-generation file system, networking and visualization.
- https://ameliorated.info/
Windows 10 with the crap removed
- DawnOS
An operating system built on the subleq higher level language architecture. See the video for a detailed overview!
is a Rust operating system with a microkernel-based design.
A 'universal function'.
A hobby project written by a single person.
Written to accompany mntmn's custom hardware.
An operating system that transforms a Raspberry Pi into an Arduino. effectively.
interesting approach to architecture
An operating system generator based on NixOS.
A next-generation Lisp machine.
TempleOS (racist)
An OS written entirely in the Forth programming language.
Fuscia https://blog.quarkslab.com/playing-around-with-the-fuchsia-operating-system.html
An operating system that prides itself on building everything from source. Leaving Gentoo https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/my-beginnings-with-gentoo https://timboudreau.com/blog/gentoo/read gentoo seems like a great learning exp https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Hardware help loading gentoo onto a pi {might be more helpful to put on qemu}
An operating system that isolates every application and device on the computer, granting permission to each only when necessary. Many journalists and security professionals rely on this.
An operating system designed to completely sandbox your activity inside of a virtual machine.
Defer to Devine's notes on the subject.
An OS modeled after Qubes, but making full use of the Nix reproducible build system, and dedicated to supporting mainstream x86-64 hardware.
combines opensolaris tech with linux kvm virtualization. has zfs. contributed to illumos project
Mobile
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23100713
- LineageOS
The most popular alternative Android operating system, built off of CyanogenMod. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/starlte/install https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/gu2kk9/lineageos_vs_e_vs_alternatives/
- e
An operating system designed to function efficiently on older, refurbished devices. Built on LineageOS.
- NixOS Mobile
A full port of NixOS to a mobile platform. It's built on top of many previous efforts and relies on a tool to convert GTK applications to mobile equivalents.
Other
- Wii-Linux
https://mirror.dernuntius.de/projects/wii-linux/ http://songseed.org/dinghy/concept.html reenvisioning the os
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces Books
hobby operating system written in C
https://www.reddit.com/r/osdev/comments/husrzq/looking_for_a_specific_tutorial_from_10_years_ago/ macos emulation layer for linux toy os
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2020/hunting-a-linux-kernel-bug.html demikernel/demikernel: Demikernel OS
nickbjohnson4224/rhombus: a hobby operating system written in C jmgrosen/shorai: A super-amazing OS that will bring world peace. Demikernel
How to Protect Your Privacy on Linux well known operating systems course at upitt just in time specialization for opencl kernels http://c9x.me/articles/gthreads/intro.html trigger kernel races reliably
kabbi/wonderland: Inferno clone to conquer the world
http://intermezzos.github.io/ a demo operatin system for learning https://littleosbook.github.io/ the little book of of development
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genode
http://wintermute.org/brendan/ the screenless office and other artistic efforts
https://github.com/mkilgore/protura toy os kernel and utilities https://makelinux.github.io/kernel/map/ map of the linux kernel
https://www.mercuryos.com/ reengineering of the operating system as a ux project, fluid experience driven by human intent
https://github.com/ssrg-vt/hermitux binary compatible unikernel
https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis statically linked linux system https://github.com/dlannan/ljos luajit command line os
etc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957020: overview of real alternative operating systems for considering. lots of interesting innovations!