Open Source Operating System Kernels

Browse free open source Operating System Kernels and projects for Windows and Mac 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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    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: 12 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    several vaguely related projects worked on by me: a 3d engine with a javascript-like scripting language (pdsys); an older scheme dialect (vmsys); ... (2009-04-28: I have been gone for years, may try to put up some newer stuff...).
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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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: 4 This Week
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    A Java 2 (JDK 1.3/1.4) compatible virtual machine. joeq is unique in that it is almost entirely implemented in Java, making it reliable and efficient. It is also language-independent, so code from any language can be seamlessly and dynamically compiled.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    This project aims to develop a Lisp based operating system for general purpose computer architectures.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    The ASCII Project

    An ASCII MMORPG / World Simulation / Genetic Programming Project

    This project was previously oriented towards creating an AI based Operating System. However new visitors should refer to www.theasciiproject.com for information about what this project has developed into.
    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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    Project Sparroh
    Project-Sparroh is a hobby operating system project. Goal is to write an OS from scratch for the purposes of learning how they work and for fun. An assembler and high level language cross-compiler will also be written first and used to build the OS.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    16 bit Forth for PC. No OS required.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    The CodeTime platform covers every aspect of parallel software from authoring, through distribution, to run-time. Its goals are: high programmer productivity; write once, run high performance anywhere; and wide acceptance.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    MEDDAC is the seeding point for designing a new approach to Operating System design itself. It is an Open Source project with roots in mainframe design and development the author began in 1979. Monitor Editor Disassembler Decompiler Assembler Compiler
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    The MyNOS project aims at developing a new and different operating system, based on high-level languages. MyNOS will be based on the OCaml bytecode interpreter. We'd like to explore microkernel architecture and new language definition too.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    - Plattform: amd64 and nvidia GeForce with shaders - Goal: Assembler with object-orientated paradigma with the ability of massive parallel calculation - Has its own bootloader and its own rudimentary os with a ncurse like editor
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    This project aims to do for MULTICS what Linux and GNU have done for UNIX - that is, to produce a totally free, totally unencumbered, and totally compliant OS that learns from prior work, rather than copies it.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    OS based on Agent based Security with a new type of split kernel and agents platform.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Silis OS is a online based operating system which will allow users to access their files and programs from any where in the world.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    OS for embedded and mobile devices based on tiny byte-code interpreter and FORTH language compiler (into platform-independent byte-code). In other word its smallest programming language realization works on any type computer with any OS
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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