Open Source Operating System Kernels

Operating System Kernels

Browse free open source Operating System Kernels and projects for Linux and BSD below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Operating System Kernels by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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  • 1
    Tools and patches for the Linux Diskquota system as part of the Linux kernel
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    Downloads: 11,353 This Week
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    The goal of the project is now to develop a user library called libpfm4 to help setup performance events for use with the perf_events Linux kernel interface. The development of the perfmon kernel subsystem, libpfm and pfmon has now stopped.
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    Downloads: 7,945 This Week
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    Project's goal is to create better tools for diagnosing Linux systems. Diagnostics include first failure data capture, error log analysis, preventative testing, and system inventory gathering. You can now find Power System specific packages on github. libservicelog : https://github.com/power-ras/libservicelog servicelog : https://github.com/power-ras/servicelog lsvpd : https://github.com/power-ras/lsvpd libvpd : https://github.com/power-ras/libvpd ppc64-diag : https://github.com/power-ras/ppc64-diag sysfsutils is moved to github. New home for sysfsutils : https://github.com/linux-ras/sysfsutils
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    Downloads: 35,643 This Week
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    Super Grub2 Disk

    Super Grub2 Disk

    Boots into many systems and GRUB2 ones!

    Super GRUB2 Disk helps you to boot into most any Operating System (OS) even if you cannot boot into it by normal means.
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    Downloads: 2,041 This Week
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  • 5
    This project is a random collection of Linux kernel-related projects and source code.
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    Downloads: 1,151 This Week
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    lmbench is a suite of simple, portable, ANSI/C microbenchmarks for UNIX/POSIX. In general, it measures two key features: latency and bandwidth. lmbench is intended to give system developers insight into basic costs of key operations.
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    Downloads: 3,202 This Week
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    Linux Test Project

    Testsuite to validate the reliability, robustness, stability of Linux.

    Linux Test Project (LTP) is a joint project started by SGI, OSDL and Bull developed and maintained by SUSE, Red Hat, Fujitsu, IBM, Cisco, Oracle and others. The project goal is to deliver tests to the open source community that validate reliability, robustness, and stability of the Linux Kernel. The testing suites contain a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features. Our goal is to improve the Linux kernel and system libraries by bringing test automation.
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    Downloads: 888 This Week
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    JBoss Community
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    Downloads: 259 This Week
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    This project maintains the Linux Console tools, which include utilities to test and configure joysticks, connect legacy devices to the kernel's input subsystem (providing support for serial mice, touchscreens etc.), and test the input event layer.
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    Downloads: 1,019 This Week
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    Kernelloader

    Run Linux on the Playstation 2

    Kernelloader is a free bootloader for PS2 Linux and other Playstation 2 operating systems. Loading can be done by "Action Replay Media Player", by "memory card exploit", by "FMCB" or any other homebrew loading method. If you downloaded the latest Linux Live DVD, you need to run the online updater to be able to play Youtube videos.
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    Downloads: 117 This Week
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    libnet provides a portable framework for low-level network packet construction. This project no longer uses sourceforge, please follow it on https://github.com/libnet/libnet
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    Downloads: 338 This Week
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    IEEE 802.1d ethernet bridging (plus Spanning Tree protocol) for the linux kernel. Kernel code is in Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.
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    Downloads: 292 This Week
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    Open Source on the Xbox 360

    UNIX/LINUX and legal homebrew software on the xbox360 gaming console

    An effort towards porting Linux and related open source operating systems to the Xbox 360. Another goal is to write homebrew applications with a legal and free Software Development Kit consisting of the Library (LibXenon) and the appropriate cross-compiler toolchain (Xenon-Toolchain). You can get informations and Source-Code on the following Pages: Wiki: http://www.free60.org Forum: http://www.libxenon.org Source Code: https://github.com/Free60Project
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    Downloads: 110 This Week
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    Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a reliable, message-oriented, multihomed transport protocol. Developed by the IETF SIGTRAN working group to transport SS7 over IP, it is now the third general-purpose transport developed by the IETF.
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    Downloads: 64 This Week
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    Cooperative Linux

    Cooperative Linux

    Run Linux on Windows or other OSes, natively.

    Cooperative Linux is the first method for optimally running Linux on Windows and other operating systems natively. It is a port of the Linux kernel and support code that allows it to run cooperatively without emulation along with another operating system.
    Downloads: 21 This Week
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    See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/media/pci/ivtv and https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Ivtv Old sites were http://ivtvdriver.org/ and http://ivtv.writeme.ch/ Old description: The primary goal of this project is to provide an Open Source driver for the Hauppauge 250/350 series of MPEG video capture cards and other cards based on the iCompression iTVC15.
    Downloads: 108 This Week
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    The Xbox Linux Project aims to privide a version of GNU/Linux for the Xbox, so that it can be used as an ordinary computer. Linux should make use of all Xbox hardware and allow to install and run software from standard i386 Linux distributions.
    Downloads: 61 This Week
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    Please find the linuxwacom project's new home on Github: https://linuxwacom.github.io/ Previous Description: This project manages the libraries, configuration, and diagnostic tools for Wacom tablets running under Linux. It also maintains updated Linux kernel drivers and Xorg/XFree86 XInput drivers.
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    openQRM - Cloud Computing Platform

    openQRM - Cloud Computing Platform

    Get latest Edition here: http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com.

    openQRM is a web-based open source datacenter management and hybrid cloud computing platform that integrates flexibly with existing components in enterprise data centers. Releases available at https://github.com/openQRM/openqrm-community. Please visit http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com for latest 5.3 free Community Release. Includes important security updates, bugfixes and enhancements especially for KVM and Cloud plugin. openQRM abstracts Virtualization and supports the following virtualization technologies: KVM, XEN, Citrix XenServer, VMWare ESX & LXC. The Hybrid Cloud Connector in openQRM supports a range of private or public cloud providers to extend your infrastructure on demand via Amazon AWS, Eucalyptus or OpenStack. openQRM automates provisioning, virtualization, storage and configuration management, and it takes care of high-availability.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    Syllable Desktop is a complete operating system that is easy to use, powerful, lightweight and extraordinarily fast and responsive. It has its own kernel, filesystem, GUI and applications. Syllable Server is a matching small and efficient Linux server.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    The scsirastools package adds several Linux SCSI tools that can be used to service and maintain disk storage devices. It handles SCSI, Linux SW RAID, SAS, SATA, and USB devices via SCSI emulation. For details & rpms, see http://scsirastools.sf.net.
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    Downloads: 63 This Week
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    Hotplugging is a facility that supports dynamic (re)configuration of GNU/Linux distributions by kernel reports to user mode "agent" software.
    Downloads: 46 This Week
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    This project's purpose is to provide and enhance USB support in Linux. This repository will be used to store Linux-USB developer source files.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    xinco - Document Management System, DMS
    xinco [eXtensibe INformation COre] is a powerful Web-Service based Information and Document Management System (DMS) for files, text, URLs and contacts, featuring ACLs, versioning, full text search, an FTP-like client (easy install, J2EE+MySQL/PostgreSQL)
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Linux NTFS file system support

    Development moved to https://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfs-3g/

    Development on this project has moved to https://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfs-3g/ The goals of this project are: create a new Linux kernel driver for the NTFS file system (1.2, 3.x, and later), user space utilities (e.g. format, ntfs check, etc.) and a library to avoid code duplication and provide access to NTFS to other GPL programs.
    Downloads: 41 This Week
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