Alternatives

Products that do what P11, Plan 9 kinda inspired kernel running on the browser does

1. 1PA
   Possimpible: A Kernel Running on the Browser▲50

   2022 · github.com

2. 2VM
   Virtual Machines in the Browser▲281

   2013 · blog.grunseid.com

3. 3GT
   GuiLite – Tiny UI framework, runs on MCU without OS▲355

   2019 · github.com

4. 4AL
   A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system▲156

   2012 · github.com

5. 5AR
   A remote browser product, open-sourced▲253

   2019 · github.com

6. 6AE
   An Easy Programming Language That Runs in the Browser▲138

   2018 · kabas.online

7. 7TI
   Tux.io – a (now working) Linux desktop in your browser▲64

   2017 · tux.io

8. 8IS
   Initiative.sh, an in-browser command line for D&D▲222

   2021 · initiative.sh

9. 9TS
   The Silicon C++14 Web Framework▲140

   2015 · github.com

10. 10WM
    Wiser – minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM, written in C▲136

    2021 · github.com

11. 11LE
    LoWe – Extending the functionality of Ubuntu running on Windows 10▲34

    2016 · github.com

12. 12IA
    I am building a next-gen browser▲68

    2011 · ashraful.org

13. 13PA
    Pancake – a CLI/Emacs web/gopher/file browser▲22

    2017 · defanor.uberspace.net

14. 14KA
    Kit55, a Desktop Web Builder GUI – Jekyll, Next, WordPress Alternative▲52

    2021 · stack55.com

15. 15LA
    liblorgnette – a dlsym for alien processes on OS X▲41

    2014 · github.com

16. 16IM
    I made a set of tools to write kernel prototypes.▲8

    This is a personal project I've been working on and off for the past few years. It's a set of tools that have allowed me to prototype quickly small (and increasingly bigger) kernels, and create userspace programs to interact with them. Supports riscv64, amd64 and i386. The intel port has been tested and used on real hardware, from big dual-socket Xeon machines to an old X220. It is all C, I have plan to make rust bindings for the kernel library. But again, they're plans at this stage. Porting to new architectures is relatively simple, a basic port to riscv took me a couple of weeks of…

    2024 · github.com

17. 17IB
    I built an open-source kernel for Texas Instruments calculators▲20

    You know that old TI calculator you used in high school, then put in a box and forgot about? Have you ever wished you had an operating system for your calculator with preemptive multitasking, dynamic memory management, a tree filesystem conforming to the FHS, and all the comforts of Unix? Well, good news: that's totally a thing that exists. I've been working on my kernel for about three and a half years now and I'm looking for new contributors to help out. It's written entirely in z80 assembly, and it's both challenging and fun to work on. There's an IRC channel for contributors or people…

    2014

18. 18QI
    Quark-IDE and a JavaScript runtime to build cross-platform desktop apps▲48

    2019 · quarkjs.io

19. 19EI
    Example implementation of Mozilla's persona and Go server▲38

    2013 · github.com

20. 20BS
    BugChecker > SoftICE-like Kernel Debugger for Windows 11▲6

    2023 · github.com

21. 21GA
    Geeonx a Multiplatform C GUI-Library (Linux, Windows, macOS)▲23

    2019 · geeonx.org

22. 22WA
    Web apps on Linux▲25

    2017 · github.com

23. 23WA
    WakeMeOps – A Debian/Ubuntu repo for popular DevOps tools and more▲7

    2022 · docs.wakemeops.com

24. 24TC
    Toothless – containerized desktop apps launched from the browser▲21

    2015 · toothless.rocks

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