toaruos VS xboot

Compare toaruos vs xboot and see what are their differences.

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. (by klange)

xboot

The extensible bootloader for embedded system with application engine, write once, run everywhere. (by xboot)
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toaruos xboot
22 2
4,690 781
- 1.4%
9.8 8.4
over 2 years ago 5 months ago
C C
University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License MIT License
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toaruos

Posts with mentions or reviews of toaruos. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-07.
  • ToaruOS Has Been Archived
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2024
  • Tilck – A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2023
    Another interesting project to checkout is klange’s toaruos https://github.com/klange/toaruos
  • Question
    1 project | /r/osdev | 10 Sep 2022
  • Kneel b4 HML
    2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 14 Aug 2022
  • Announcing: PonyOS 8
    3 projects | /r/osdev | 31 Mar 2022
    In case it's not clear, PonyOS is a joke reskin of my serious OS project, ToaruOS. PonyOS gets a new release every April 1st. All of the libraries and applications in ToaruOS are in-house things I built myself - the whole OS is "built from scratch". PonyOS adds ponysay, which is an external app originally written in Python - and in previous releases of PonyOS I shipped the Python version alongside a port of Python 3.6. This release, though, comes with a port to my own language, Kuroko, which is a dialect of Python - a lot of what went into building the PonyOS release this year was getting ponysay to work well.
  • Interesting variables
    1 project | /r/osdev | 25 Feb 2022
    There is no correct way to use inline assembly here. You need a stub written in assembly that will save those registers to the stack and pass a pointer to a handler written in C. You may also want to define a struct that matches the stack layout to make it easier to access the stack contents. This is not my code. If you want to use this code in your OS, you must follow the license requirements.
  • Seriously, WHY?
    1 project | /r/osdev | 25 Jan 2022
    Here's a good example, although it's 64-bit instead of 32-bit.
  • Hacker News top posts: Dec 13, 2021
    4 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 13 Dec 2021
    ToaruOS 2.0\ (5 comments)
  • ToaruOS 2.0, a new (hobby) x86_64 OS
    1 project | /r/Boiling_Steam | 13 Dec 2021
  • ToaruOS 2.0
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2021

xboot

Posts with mentions or reviews of xboot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing toaruos and xboot you can also consider the following projects:

Lemon-OS - The Lemon Operating System

HackBGRT - Windows boot logo changer for UEFI systems

kernel-zig - :floppy_disk: hobby x86 kernel zig

proxy4plex - Proxy Server for older Samsung Smart-TVs which only support TLS up to 1.1

limine - Modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader.

unikraft - A next-generation cloud native kernel designed to unlock best-in-class performance, security primitives and efficiency savings.

HoodLoader2 - 16u2 Bootloader to reprogram 16u2 + 328/2560 with Arduino IDE

stm32-bootloader - Customizable Bootloader for STM32 microcontrollers. This example demonstrates how to perform in-application-programming of a firmware located on an external SD card with FAT32 file system.

lk2nd - Secondary little kernel (lk) bootloader for Qualcomm MSM8953 devices

MyOs - my os practice from scratch

NodeOS - Lightweight operating system using Node.js as userspace

elf2efi - Convert ELF-format images to PE+ suitable for use as EFI applications