Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch

• Platform

  30 91 9.9 JavaScript

  Qbix Platform for powering Social Apps (http://qbix.com/platform) (by Qbix)

  

Well if you are looking for a Social Operating System…

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

Labor of love for a decade

• essence

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"Although the operating system is written in C++, most C++ features are avoided" [1]. I think it's a defensible choice for an OS, especially if you want to lower the bar for contributors.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/nakst/essence/-/blob/master/help/Contribu...

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• website

  71 37 8.5 HTML

  The Haiku website. (Pull requests are accepted; please file issues at https://dev.haiku-os.org). (by haiku)

  

• linux

  980 170,074 10.0 C

  Linux kernel source tree

Most user-space code is not difficult to port. An operating system is much more work.

Take a look at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch/arm64

• serenity

  240 28,555 10.0 C++

  The Serenity Operating System 🐞

  

• v2os

  2 30 10.0 Delphi

  V2_OS - The V2_ Operating System. 100% 32 bit assembly code

Its a sign of all times.

QNX, V2OS [1], SkyOS to name a few. I mention QNX because I remember running it from a floppy in end of 90s. Unix system with GUI, from one 1"44 floppy.

Which recent ones are you aware of?

[1] https://github.com/joostfaassen/v2os

• zzzfm

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• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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