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opaak is an educational project enabling everyone interested to learn about operating systems internals.

This educational project is actually composed of three sub-projects: kastor, kaneton and kayou.

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Why would you use opaak or one of its projects and what for?

You could use one of the opaak projects as a student, especially if:

You do not know how systems work and you would like to understand how the execution flows from the application to the C library to system calls to the kernel to the hardware. You could probably use kastor for that purpose.
You would like to implement your own kernel as a learning experience but you do not know where to start. Well you could use the kaneton project for that.

As a teacher:

You are looking for a project so that your students can implement algorithms in a system environment. Depending on your course being hardware-, kernel-, application- or distributed computing-oriented, you could use either kastor, kaneton or kayou.