helenos
ghost
| helenos | ghost | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | |
| 1,293 | 556 | |
| 0.6% | - | |
| 8.7 | 5.5 | |
| 7 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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helenos
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HelenOS a microkernel-based, multiserver OS from scratch
>HelenOS is open source, free software. Its source code is available under the BSD license. Some third-party components are licensed under GPL.
https://github.com/HelenOS/helenos#license
ghost
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Ghost Kernel
https://ghostkernel.org/about
>"Ghost is a hobby operating system for the Intel x86 platform. The project is licensed as GPLv3. It was started as a research project to learn more about low-level software programming and computer internals. The sources are available on GitHub (https://github.com/maxdev1/ghost).
Features
The kernel and the userspace applications are written from scratch in C++ and Assembly (and some C). It is not based on any existing kernel.
There is a POSIX.1 compatibility layer to simplify porting some software to the system.
o Micro-kernel
o Symmetric multi-processing
o Patched GCC (OS specific toolchain)
o IPC (pipes, signals, messages, shared memory)
o ELF executable & shared library support
o libc, self-made
o libghostapi, kernel API library
o libghostuser, simplified file I/O, creating UIs etc.
o libstdc++ port
o VESA video driver
o Window server (GUI with homemade toolkit)
o PS/2 keyboard & mouse driver
o Userspace filesystem driver support
o Serial COM1 debug interface
o Virtual 8086 for BIOS calls
o Copy-on-write implementation, fork()
What are some alternatives?
MoonOS - MoonOS (just a kernel atm) is a micro kernel designed for the x86_64 and arm architecure.
seL4 - The seL4 microkernel
refined-hacker-news - ✨ Hacker News, but refined — Interface tweaks and features to make the HN experience better
ics-os - An instructional operating system
circle - A C++ bare metal environment for Raspberry Pi with USB (32 and 64 bit)
toaruos - A completely-from-scratch hobby operating system: bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library, and userspace including a composited graphical UI, dynamic linker, syntax-highlighting text editor, network stack, etc.
IPNode - 10 Meter 1200 Baud QPSK IP Node
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
brutal - 🏢 An operating system inspired by brutalist design that combines the ideals of UNIX from the 1970s with modern technology and engineering
lf-os_amd64 - Hobby operating system for amd64 with high ambitions - mirror
reactos - A free Windows-compatible Operating System