Top 8 Assembly Kernel Projects

floppybird

0 901 0.0 Assembly

Floppy Bird (OS)
Cyjon

0 403 0.0 Assembly

A simple, clean code, multi-tasking kernel written in pure Assembly language for 64-bit processors from the AMD64 family.
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zen

1 359 0.0 Assembly

Experimental operating system written in Zig

Project mention: Zen: Experimental operating system written in Zig | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-24
539kernel

1 180 10.0 Assembly

539kernel is a simple x86 32bit educational kernel which has been written especially for the book "A Journey in Creating an Operating System Kernel" which is available freely on <https://539kernel.com>

Project mention: Help with a toy Kernel. | /r/osdev | 2023-01-19
mintia

1 55 0.0 Assembly

Paging operating system for a custom computer architecture

Project mention: Mintia: my paging operating system written in a custom language for a custom architecture | /r/osdev | 2023-07-08

MINTIA is the flagship operating system for XR/station, and has itself been in the works for 2.5 years and counting. To meet some standard of "realism" for a late 80s workstation operating system, it has the following goals (in no particular order):
x86-bootloader

0 21 0.0 Assembly

A BIOS bootloader for bare-metal x86 programs, written in 8086 assembly
x86-kernel

0 10 0.0 Assembly

A hobby kernel developed from scratch using i8086 assembly
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kernel

1 4 10.0 Assembly

A barebones x86 Kernel. (by mirimmad)

Project mention: I've been working through a toy compiler. | /r/osdev | 2023-01-19

Here is the repo (github.com/mirimmad/kernel). Please build it and try to uncomment the lines that print the timer values to see the messed up screen.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-07-24.