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This page maintains a list of operating system projects considered to be notable. An operating system is considered notable if it has received some form of success outside of the relatively tiny sphere of hobby operating system development (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"
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.


If you believe your project meets one or more of the criteria above, feel free to add it to the list. The worst that could happen is you fall out of notability due to inactivity.
If you believe your project meets one or more of the criteria above, feel free to add it to the list.


Everyone is welcome to add their own projects to the regular [[Projects]] list of all hobbyist operating systems
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.
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== Active Notable Alternative Operating Systems ==


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== Notable Hobby Operating Systems ==
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{{OSProject
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|OSName=9front
|OSDescription=Plan9front (or 9front) is a fork of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system. The project was started to remedy a perceived lack of devoted development resources inside Bell Labs, and has accumulated various fixes and improvements.
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|Contact=http://lists.9front.org/
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|License=Open source
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|URL=http://lists.9front.org/
|Status=Active (2018-12-21)
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|Pic=[[File:9front.png|200px]]
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{{OSProject
{{OSProject
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|Status=Active (2018-03-06)
|Status=Active (2018-03-06)
|License=Open source (MIT)
|License=Open source (MIT)
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{{OSProject
|OSName=FreeDOS
|OSDescription=Today, FreeDOS is ideal for anyone who wants to bundle a version of DOS without having to pay a royalty for use of DOS. FreeDOS will also work on old hardware and embedded systems. FreeDOS is also an invaluable resource for people who would like to develop their own operating system. While there are many free operating systems out there, no other free DOS-compatible operating system exists.
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|Contact=The mailing lists at http://www.freedos.org/lists/
|License=Open source (GNU GPLv2)
|URL=http://www.freedos.org
|Status=Active (2018-08-24)
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|Pic=[[File:FreeDOS.png|200px]]
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|Pic=[[Image:ghost-ui-preview.png|120px]]
|Pic=[[Image:ghost-ui-preview.png|120px]]
|License=GPLv3
|License=GPLv3
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{{OSProject
|OSName=Kolibri OS
|OSDescription=Kolibri OS was a fork of the 32-bit version of Menuet OS but has changed much along the way. Despite fitting on a standard 1.44 MB floppy, this wonderful OS contains: the complete GUI desktop, a lot of drivers and great software (such as web browser and music player), system programs and games! The Kernel and most applications, libraries and drivers are written in FASM, but some are in C-- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-- ; link to their C-- compiler: http://c--sphinx.narod.ru/). At this OS you can write the ASM code and execute it after assembling. Source code is open - http://websvn.kolibrios.org/listing.php?repname=Kolibri+OS - and the contributions are welcome!
|Contact=The Kolibri OS team
|License=Open source (GNU GPLv2)
|URL=http://www.kolibrios.org
|Status=Active (2018-12-07)
|Pic=[[File:KolibriOS.png|240px]]
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|URL=http://knightos.org
|URL=http://knightos.org
|Status=Active (2018-11-11)
|Status=Active (2018-11-11)
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{{OSProject
|OSName=Haiku
|OSDescription=Fully featured open source operating system inspired by the commercial Be Operating System. Has a preemptive, modular kernel, nearly complete POSIX compatibility, a nice (non-X11-based) GUI, and a wide variety of ported and native applications (including a WebKit based browser). Nearly the entire operating system is written in C++98 (including the kernel), albeit with little usage of exceptions.
|Contact=haiku-development [at] freelists.org
|License=Open source (MIT)
|URL=https://www.haiku-os.org/
|Pic=[[File:Haiku.png|200px]]
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|Status=Latest release: 2018-09-28, is active
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{{OSProject
|OSName=LK (Little Kernel)
|Contact=Travis Geiselbrecht (travisg at gmail.com)
|OSDescription=An open source embedded multiprocessor kernel for ARM, x86, x86-64. Other platforms are work-in-progress and are in various stages of development with varying activity.
|License=Open source (MIT-Style)
|URL=https://github.com/littlekernel/lk
|Status=Active (2018-12-19)
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{{OSProject
{{OSProject
|OSName=qword
|OSName=MikeOS
|OSDescription=MikeOS is an operating system for x86 PCs, written in assembly language. It is a learning tool to show how simple 16-bit, real-mode OSes work, with well-commented code and extensive documentation. It has a BASIC interpreter with 46 instructions, supports over 60 syscalls, could manage a serial terminal connection and output the sound through PC speaker. There is also a file manager, text editor, image viewer and some games
|OSDescription=Kernel and distro written in C and x86 assembly targeted at x86_64. Our philosophy is "keep it simple and make it work". KISS is love, KISS is life.
|Contact=qword Discord Server https://discord.gg/z6b3qZC
|Contact=Mike Saunders, okachi [at] gmail [dot] com
|License=Open source (copyleft)
|License=Open source
|URL=https://github.com/qword-os/qword
|URL=http://mikeos.sourceforge.net/
|Status=Latest commit: 2016-12-04 ; Latest release: 2014-12-21
|Status=Active
|FloppyAvailable=Fits on a floppy! :)
|Pic=[[Image:Qword-reference-screenshot-1.png|200px]]
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|Pic=[[File:MikeOS.png|240px]]
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|OSName=Pedigree
|OSDescription=Monolithic OS with several backends supported - x86, x64, MIPS32, ARM and PowerPC. Kernel written in C++ with the obvious bits of ASM. Offers a reasonable amount of POSIX support and a tiling GUI and can run Apache, DOSBox, and various other common programs. Planned to also offer a native API alongside POSIX for Pedigree-specific applications.
|Contact=JamesM, bluecode, [http://ideasandcode.blogspot.com/ pcmattman], IRC freenode.net#pedigree
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|URL=http://www.pedigree-project.org/
|Status=[http://www.pedigree-project.org/projects/pedigree/wiki/Foster_Milestone_1 Foster Milestone #1] (most recent release).
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|Status=Active Development
|Status=Active Development
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{{OSProject
{{OSProject
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|OSName=Sortix
|OSName=Sortix
|OSDescription=Sortix is a small self-hosting operating-system aiming to be a clean and modern POSIX implementation. It is a hobbyist operating system written from scratch with its own base system, including kernel and standard library, as well as ports of third party software. It has a straightforward installer and can be developed under itself. Releases come with the source code in /src, ready for tinkering.
|OSDescription=Sortix is a small self-hosting operating-system aiming to be a clean and modern POSIX implementation. It is a hobbyist operating system written from scratch with its own base system, including kernel and standard library, as well as ports of third party software. It has a straightforward installer and can be developed under itself. Releases come with the source code in /src, ready for tinkering.
|Contact=https://sortix.org/
|Contact=[[User:sortie|sortie]], https://sortix.org/
|License=Open source (ISC)
|License=Open source (ISC)
|LastReleaseYear=2016
|LastReleaseYear=2016
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|URL=https://sortix.org/
|URL=https://sortix.org/
|Pic=[[File:Sortix.png|200px]]
|Pic=[[File:Sortix.png|200px]]
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{{OSProject
|OSName=[[wikipedia:TempleOS|TempleOS]]
|OSDescription=TempleOS is a 64 bit lightweight OS with multitasking and multicore support, which is ring-0-only and works in a single address space. It provides the interface for communicating with God: the user has to choose a random number from the constantly changing sequences and then it is converted to the text interpretation. Whole OS with its' software has been single-handedly created during 15 years by Terry A Davis - who also developed a programming language called Holy C together with a special compiler for it. TempleOS supports the FAT32 and RedSea filesystems (the latter created by Terry) and also the file compression. It doesn't support the networking, partially for ideological reasons, but there are forks available with added functionality
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|Contact=Terry A Davis, http://www.templeos.org
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|License=Open source (Public Domain)
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|URL=http://templeos.org/
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|Status=Latest update: 2018-01-29, discontinued
|FloppyAvailable=Could fit on a floppy, but no-one has tried :P
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|Pic=[[File:TempleOS.png|240px]]
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|OSName=[[User:Klange/ToaruOS|とあるOS (ToAruOS)]]
|OSName=[[User:Klange/ToaruOS|とあるOS (ToAruOS)]]
|OSDescription=32-bit modular kernel written in C. Supports pipes, shared memory, signals, POSIX-compliant file access, threading, audio, IPv4. Heavy focus on advanced GUI, including a compositing window system.
|OSDescription=32-bit modular kernel written in C. Supports pipes, shared memory, signals, POSIX-compliant file access, threading, audio, IPv4. Heavy focus on advanced GUI, including a compositing window system.
|Contact=#toaruos on irc.freenode.net
|Contact=[[User:klange|klange]], #toaruos on irc.freenode.net
|URL=http://toaruos.org/
|URL=http://toaruos.org/
|LastReleaseYear=2017
|LastReleaseYear=2017
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