xdos
A desktop OS in 19,456 bytes of x86 assembly
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GITHUB · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 38 upvotes (top 70%) · 0 views
Niche: experimental and embedded operating systems · 142 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 142 launches in experimental and embedded operating systems →
Could you build this?
No A desktop OS packed into 19 KB of hand-written x86 assembly demands low-level systems expertise that vibe coding cannot reliably substitute for.
What it would actually take: Building a comparable project requires bootloader and real-mode x86 assembly, a custom filesystem, a minimal graphics driver, and a window manager, all within a strict size budget. This needs deep OS and assembly expertise, with extensive emulator-based debugging, rather than conversational code generation.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 5477 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3907 of 5478 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 374 days after the earliest competitor.
- ember · github · 2026-09-13 · 137 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- elixos · github · 2026-10-10 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Nønos · hn · 2025-12-23 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Copperhead · hn · 2026-09-08 · 249 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- flappy-512 · github · 2026-10-13 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- kiri · github · 2026-11-02 · 504 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- zxdesk · github · 2026-09-16 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- LiberNT · github · 2026-10-14 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.66
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