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Free OS projects

• Apostle initiated early october 1999. The OS structure seems to tend towards a very classical microkernel approach.
• The Amiga Research OS software clone of AmigaOS ??? (licensing status unclear), hoping to fix bugs and legal problems with the original OS, and finally port it away from the deceased (until further notice) Amiga hardware platform to the i386 PC and other platforms (PPC, Alpha, whatever).
• Brand Huntsman's BRiX OS will be based on modular functions that can be dynamically called by other functions. The microkernel is being developed in assembler. Its persistent object store, automatically downloadable functions, and a new user interface will make it very easy to use for both beginners and experts. Every function runs in a seperate thread.
• KOS is a small project of developing an operating system being worked on by a few French people. Like LittleOS, it seems to be a nice little project to work on if you're interested in operating systems. Note that the site has some pretty interesting OS documentation as well.
• LittleOS is a small operating system experiment being developed by a group of individuals. It hadn't been updated in some time and was thought to be dead, but a 0.3.0 release came out recently. It has no big pretentions whatsoever and is just meant to experiment with OS techniques and programming in group.
• Brian J. Swetland's OpenBLT cleanroom implementation of a microkernel. Conventional implementation of processes and threads, but the codebase was written from scratch and works to some extent.
• Prool's Proolix is yet another Unix clone project for the old 8086 PCs, from former USSR.
• Tom Novelli's retro is actually a prototype low-level infrastructure for TUNES, written in x86 NASMbly, and growing a FORTH environment.
• SkyOS is for x86 PCs. Its design is pretty standard: monolithic kernel and features a GUI and all common drivers for pc hardware, as well a TCP/IP stack and other goodies.
• Jascha Wetzel's XOS object-oriented, distributed, preemptively multitasked/threaded, message-passing based system. Clear documentation.

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