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24 alternatives to Minoca OS
Minoca OS: A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Minoca OS launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2016 · minocacorp.com · its alternatives →
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A minimal RISC-V 32-bit OS written in Zig. Contribute to botirkhaltaev/pico-os development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This project contains no code from Linux, BSD, Minix, or any other OS. Everything up until this point is written entirely from scratch, including a pure microkernel (that only implements multiprocessor priority scheduling, memory management, and interprocess communication), a work-in-progress implementation of the standard C library, and a variety of servers that provide drivers and other essential OS functionality. At the time of writing this post, the servers provide drivers for the keyboard, NVMe SSDs (that works on real hardware), a Unix-like virtual file system (with a single root…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've wanted to make my own OS since I started programming. Now, 5 years later, I did it (kind of). Sure, it is really basic, has very little functionality, but I made it and I'm proud of that. Oh, and I'm just 16 btw.
2025 · jotalea.com.ar · its alternatives →
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LineageOS▲131The successor to CyanogenMod, an Android Distribution
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to cmc-labo/tinyos-rtos development by creating an account on GitHub.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I pretty much always have a kernel project going on, and have been that way for decades. Over the past couple of years, that's been Anos, which has gotten further along than any of my previous hobby kernels, supporting IPC, multitasking, SMP (x86-64 only right now) and running on real hardware. LLMs (mostly Claude Code) have been used during development, but I learned early on that it's not _great_ at code at this level, so I've restricted its use to mostly documentation and tests. There's _a little_ AI code in the user space, but I have a strict "no AI code" rule in the kernel itself. I…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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BareMetal for the private/public cloud. Contribute to ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-Cloud development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Minos2 is a micro-kernel OS. Contribute to minosproject/minos2 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Naarchy▲69A little island for everything on your Linux desktop
17d ago · michaelchurley.com · its alternatives →
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Ports, unencrypted kernels and a chilly new mobile plan
2016 · its alternatives →
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2013 · kevinboone.net · its alternatives →
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Karabiner▲80Awesome, powerful keyboard remapper for OSX.
2014 · karabiner-elements.pqrs.org · its alternatives →
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Dec 2025 · docs.nonos.systems · its alternatives →
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