Open Source Operating System Kernels

Browse free open source Operating System Kernels and projects for Windows and Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Operating System Kernels by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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    FreeRTOS Real Time Kernel (RTOS)

    FreeRTOS Real Time Kernel (RTOS)

    Market leading real time kernel for 40+ microcontroller architectures

    ************************************************************************************************************************ * The primary FreeRTOS repository is now in Git. Go to https://github.com/freertos for the latest FreeRTOS kernel and libraries. * Our support has moved to https://forums.freertos.org. ************************************************************************************************************************ FreeRTOS is a market-leading real-time operating system (RTOS) for microcontrollers and small microprocessors. Distributed freely under the MIT open source license, FreeRTOS includes a kernel and a growing set of libraries suitable for use across all industry sectors. Visit https://www.freertos.org for more information and other download options. Note about support/discussions forum: The FreeRTOS support forum has moved to https://forums.freertos.org. Please update your bookmarks and create new posts in the appropriate category in the new community forums.
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    Downloads: 325 This Week
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    Downloads: 323 This Week
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    QP Real-Time Event Frameworks & Tools

    QP Real-Time Event Frameworks & Tools

    Real-Time Event Frameworks based on active objects & state machines

    QP real-time event frameworks (RTEFs) provide lightweight, modern, event-driven architecture based on asynchronous Active Objects (Actors) and Hierarchical State Machines. The matching QM model-based design tool and other host-based tools complement the QP frameworks by supporting graphical modeling, code generation, software tracing, and unit testing for event-driven embedded software. Visit https://www.state-machine.com for more information. The QP RTEFs can run on bare-metal microcontrollers, replacing a traditional RTOS. The frameworks contain a selection of built-in real-time kernels (RTOS kernels), such as the cooperative QV kernel, the preemptive non-blocking QK kernel, and the unique preemptive, dual-mode (blocking/non-blocking) QXK kernel. Native QP ports and ready-to-use examples are provided for ARM Cortex-M (M0/M0+/M3/M4/M7/M33/...) as well as other CPUs. The QP RTEFs can also work with many traditional RTOSes and General-Purpose OSes, such as Linux and Windows.
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    Downloads: 149 This Week
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    stress-ng

    stress-ng

    This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository.

    This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository. stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces. stress-ng was originally intended to make a machine work hard and trip hardware issues such as thermal overruns as well as operating system bugs that only occur when a system is being thrashed hard. Use stress-ng with caution as some of the tests can make a system run hot on poorly designed hardware and also can cause excessive system thrashing which may be difficult to stop.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    ToaruOS

    ToaruOS

    Hobby operating system, bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library

    ToaruOS is a "complete" operating system for x86-64 PCs and experimental support for ARMv8. While many independent, hobby, and research OSes aim to experiment with new designs, ToaruOS is intended as an educational resource, providing a representative microcosm of functionality found in major desktop operating systems. The OS includes a kernel, bootloader, dynamic shared object linker, C standard library, its own composited windowing system, a dynamic bytecode-compiled programming language, advanced code editor, and dozens of other utilities and example applications. There are no external runtime dependencies and all required source code, totaling roughly 100k lines of (primarily) C, is included in this repository, save for Kuroko, which lives separately. Through out the project, ToaruOS has also attracted quite a few beginner OS developers who have tried to use it as a reference.
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    scmRTOS is tiny Real-Time Preemptive Operating System intended for use with Single-Chip Microcontrollers. scmRTOS is capable to run on small uCs with as little amount of RAM as 512 bytes. The RTOS is written on C++ and supports various platforms.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    newRPL

    newRPL

    The classic RPL programming language reimplemented and reimagined.

    This project reimplements from scratch the RPL language made popular by HP programmable calculators, in portable C/C++. The main goal is to release a complete computing environment for various targets. There's currently 4 active targets: the HP 50g, HP39gs and HP40gs calculators and a PC simulator (see the downloads section!). Other ports are planned for the future.
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    Advanced platform-independant, Object-Oriented threading and synchronization library. Designed and tested under POSIX & Win32 systems. Not just another thread wrapper.
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    JNode is a Java New Operating system Design Effort. JNode is a simple to use and install Java operating system for personal use on modern devices. Any java application runs on it, fast and safe. See our homepage for additional information.
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    amforth: Interpreter on Microcontrollers

    amforth is an extendible interpreter on microcontrollers

    amforth is an extendable command interpreter running on AVR ATmega and TI MSP430 microcontrollers. The Risc-V and ARM architectures are ascending. Turnkey actions for IoT workloads are possible as well. The command language is close to the Forth 2012 standard.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    colorForth
    colorForth is, in Chuck Moore's own words: "A dialect of Forth that uses color to replace punctuation. Includes its own operating system. Produces extremely compact programs. Instant compile from pre-parsed source."
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    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    SkyEye

    a very fast full system simulator

    SkyEye is a very fast full system simulator which takes llvm as IR of dynmic compiled framework.. It can simulate series ARM, Coldfire,Mips, Powerpc, Sparc, x86, TI DSP and Blackfin DSP Processor. Also can simulate multicore system by the multicore of host. The commercial support is provided by DigiProto Co. (http://www.digiproto.com)
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    An easy to use Development Environment for OS developers to design, write, compile, test, and publish new or existing OS projects with ease.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    An operating system kernel written in C# with a strong focus on security, reliability, and maintainability.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    OS9exec - execution environment for OS-9/68k user-mode programs on MacOS9 / MacOSX / Windows and Linux host OS. (OS-9 is an RTOS of Microware/Radisys)
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    The BazisLib library provides API to simplify the development of certain system services and low-level applications, for WinXP kernel mode, Win32 and WinCE, as well as for Linux kernel.
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    Atomic OS is a responsive Web 2.0 operating environment & development platform. Based on AJAX techniques, it emulates/provides standard operating system features including a command-line shell, interpreter, filesystem, database access and GUI services.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    fast single-privilege single-address-space preemptive-multithreading persistent data-centric secure multiuser operating system with safe-language and reconfigurable graphical interface
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    IntrOS

    Free cooperative operating system designed for microcontrollers

    Free, simple and tiny cooperative operating system (OS) designed for deeply embedded applications. Target: ARM Cortex-M, STM8, AVR8. It was inspired by the concept of a state machine. Procedure executed by the task (task state) doesn't have to be noreturn-type. It will be executed into an infinite loop. There's a dedicated function for immediate change the task state.
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    PlusOS (Plus Operating System)

    PlusOS (Plus Operating System)

    OS bootable from Linux,Windows and others partitions as auxiliary OS

    Plus operating system is hobby project. That's built to run as auxiliary OS with Major OS like Windows and Linux etc..bootable with grub2 and own boot loader.focused on eBook reading software(PDF,EPUB,MOBI,DJVU,CHM...).with programs like calculator, notepad,source code editor, hex viewer, text viewer,image viewer and many games.VESA 32bpp GUI from startup.read-only plus maybe writing support for standard file systems FAT/NTFS/EXT/CDFS.codec for archives(ZIP,RAR,7z,GZ ...).codec for image formats(JPG,BMP,GIF,PNG...).video player or at least thumbnails extract(AVI,MKV,MP4,3GP...). mountable as filesystem from ISO,ISZ file.generic drivers VBE,USB,HD Audio,Keyboard, mouse.bootable on qemu and of course on real computer systems.at least all drivers for one computer (my) this is primary goal. In summary goal is building a stable and usefull OS. A Project By Arshad Latti. Support PlusOS project on patreon https://www.patreon.com/arshadlatti to encourage.
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    Graphical OS Kernel compiled with gcc 4.6.1 and nasm 2.09.08
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    The Vortex project consists of 2 things. The Vortex OS and VParse. The OS is multitasking and handles a lot of features. VParse is a stand alone Vertex2 parser. Vertex is vortex's scripting language. Pre 0.7 is QBasic and 0.7 is C++.
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    The ARM-Ada project provide ravenscar runtime system and some useful libraries for deeply embedded applications written in gcc ada (gnat) language. For now RTS port for lpc21xx is done.
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    AVRILOS

    AVRILOS

    Simple AVR OS

    A simple Embedded System Framework that allows rapid development of applications build for AVR family. System is based on a super-loop architecture with check and skip (no-wait) flag event driver system. Supports: UART, SysTick Timer, ADC, SPI, EEPROM, PWM. Also supports: Xilinx FPGA configuration, FPGA SSI interface, smart card reader etc. Tested partially (different modules in each case) on ATMega163/16/32/323/8. Awards CodeProject 2010, Third Prize, Hardware and Device Programming Check the Wiki Page for more details.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Active Object real-time OS

    AO RTOS is small real time OS based on Active Object concurrency model

    AO-RTOS is a pure object-oriented small footprint real-time operating system for embedded devices. The project is using Active Object (or Actor) concurrency model and finite state machine (FSM) design template as implementation base.
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