HavenDOS™
RELEASE · 0.8.8.1An independent operating system built from scratch in C and x86 Assembly: a 32-bit monolithic kernel with its own drivers, FAT storage, networking stack, shell and character-based desktop. Boots on BIOS and x86-64 UEFI.
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Operating systems & software
Studio projects
MorrowOS™
IN DEVELOPMENTA separate Linux desktop distribution built on Kubuntu 24.04 with KDE Plasma. The v1.3 release notes report 64-bit BIOS and UEFI boot, a Dawn boot menu and an installer that installs to disk as MorrowOS; not independently tested by this website.
BootChat
TEMPORARILY OFFLINEA communication platform with public chat, DMs, servers, profiles, media support and its own protocol. The public server is temporarily offline.
Community-maintained
HavenOS
HavenOS continues independently with its own maintainers and development schedule. Tech Haven Studios no longer controls development; Kyan Hoekstra may provide occasional technical help. It is separate from MorrowOS. No official public repository is available yet.
Read the HavenOS announcementLegacy · Decommissioned
These systems are no longer actively updated. The last stable builds are kept online so you can still download and study them, but no further patches are planned. Development effort has moved to the Haven line.
KOS™
DECOMMISSIONEDThe original kernel engine in x86_64 Assembly and C — the foundation the early Tech Haven Studios OS ecosystem was built on. No longer actively developed; superseded by the Haven line. The last stable build is still available to download.
K-DOS™
DECOMMISSIONEDLegacy command-line operating system built on KOS. A reliable terminal environment with essential shell commands, RAM-based filesystem and process management. No longer updated — succeeded by HavenDOS. Last stable build still downloadable.
K-DOS Desktop™
DECOMMISSIONEDExperimental GUI layer that was built on K-DOS using direct framebuffer rendering. No longer actively developed — GUI efforts are moving to the Haven line. No stable download is available; kept here for the record.
No stable download
Community Partners
POLEBROWSE
Partner ProjectA fully custom web browser built from scratch by ridellazorxd — a contracted promotional partner of Tech Haven Studios. Polebrowse is an independent project developing its own rendering engine, networking stack and UI.
DiscordRANITEOS
Partner ProjectA custom operating system built in x86_64 Assembly and C by king_goobling — a contracted promotional partner of Tech Haven Studios. RANITEOS is a fellow low-level OS project exploring bare-metal development.
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