Operating System Software

Cfengine is a tool for setting up and maintaining BSD and System-5-like operating system optionally attached to a TCP/IP network. You can think of cfengine as a very high level language, much higher level than Perl or shell: a single statement can result in many hundreds of operations being...

RT-Thread is a real-time operating system. It is designed specifically for small memory footprint platforms. The kernel supports the tranditional RTOS services, such as multiple threads, semaphores, mutexes, event flags, mailboxes, etc. RT-Thread project also provides a C-expression interpreter...

SimplyMEPIS is a ready to go desktop operating system for PCs and Apple computers that have Intel or AMD 32 or 64 bit processors. SimplyMEPIS project is easier than Windows Vista and intuitive for Windows XP and Windows 98 users. MEPIS includes all of the applications that most users need and...


Platforms: *nix

Osicat is lightweight operating system interface for Common Lisp on POSIX-like systems. Osicat uses UFFI for foreign bindings, so it is relatively portable, though most active development happens on SBCL and Debian GNU/Linux, so other platforms may experience wrinkles..


Platforms: *nix

ROCKate is a LiveCD, a complete operating system that operates without installing it on a harddisk. It focuses on giving people a chance to protect their privacy on the Internet. The LiveCD achieves this goal by using the Tor network for anonymity and delivers all applications pre-configured to...


Platforms: *nix

S-M-S stands for Slackware Mini Server ans is a Linux operating system console based and manageable through webmin interface. Although described as a mini server, have all the features of a powerful server such as apache2, sendmail, spamassassin, clamav, squid, iptables firewall, mysql, cups and...


Platforms: *nix

Xprobe is an alternative to some tools which are heavily dependent upon the usage of the TCP protocol for remote active operating system fingerprinting. Xprobe I combines various remote active operating system fingerprinting methods using the ICMP protocol, which were discovered during the...


Platforms: *nix

Yellow Dog Linux is the Premier Linux Operating System for PowerPC. Proven world-wide as the preferred Linux OS for the Power architecture, v4.1 brings Terra Soft into its 8th year of Power Linux development and support. Yellow Dog Linux v4.1 marks a returning point in Terra Softs effort to...


Platforms: *nix

Buenos is a small SMP operating system skeleton which can be used as a base for operating systems project courses. Buenos runs in a machine simulator called YAMS, which is also available here. Buenos project is intended to be used as OS project base code which students can improve. Extensive...


Platforms: *nix

LSE/OS is a nanokernel based operating system dedicated for the x86. LSE/OS is a good choice for PC/104 embedded systems..


Platforms: *nix

Yoper is a high performance operating system which has been carefully optimized for PCs with either i686 or higher processor types. The binaries that come with Yoper have been built from scratch using the original sources combined with the some of the best features from other Open Source Linux...


Platforms: *nix

SLAX KB is a pocket operating system with the ability to run many Windows applications natively in Linux. It contains wine, dosbox and qemu. Some people prefer modified versions of SLAX, designed to provide some extra functionality. Even if SLAX is modular and allows people to extend it easily,...


Platforms: *nix

SLAX Popcorn Edition is a pocket operating system which fits even 128MB USB Flash Drives! SLAX Popcorn Edition contains XFce desktop, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, XMMS, AbiWord & Gaim. This special modification of the SLAX live CD, Popcorn Edition, has been released after a week of beta...


Platforms: *nix

TALK is a strictly and statically typed assembly language that is flexible and powerful enough to write operating system kernels. For example, memory management (i.e. malloc/free) and multi-thread management can be implemented in TALK..


Platforms: *nix

Vector Linux is a small, fast, Linux operating system for Intel, AMD and x86 compatible systems, based on one of the original Linux distributions, Slackware. The enormously popular Slackware is the true Unix of Linux distributions and is used by major corporations, universities and home users...


Platforms: *nix

Vector Linux is a small, fast, Linux operating system for Intel, AMD and x86 compatible systems, based on one of the original Linux distributions, Slackware. The Vector development team is proud to announce SOHO 5.1.2-live. We started with SOHO 5.1 added all the recent bugfix patches, and...


Platforms: *nix

Vector Linux is a fast, small, Intel based Linux operating system for PC style computers. The creators of Vector Linux had a single credo: keep it simple, keep it small and let the end user decide what their operating system is going to be. What has evolved from this concept is perhaps the best...


Platforms: *nix

Vector Linux is a small, fast, Linux operating system for Intel, AMD and x86 compatible systems, based on one of the original Linux distributions, Slackware. The enormously popular Slackware is the true Unix of Linux distributions and is used by major corporations, universities and home users...


Platforms: *nix

UPC LiveCD is a UPC-enabled Linux operating system on a CD-ROM disc. It runs directly from the CD without installing. I created it to demonstrate UPC programming on the SC2005 conference. With UPC LiveCD, you can try out UPC programming without the need of a multiprocessor environment. UPC...


Platforms: *nix

CheckOsVer is small, free program which will report your Operating System Version and also the version of the Windows Common Controls installed on your Windows PC. CheckOsVer is completely free. You may use it and distribute it freely to anyone you like. If you want to include CheckOsVer with...


Platforms: Windows, Other