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C Operating Systems Good First Issues

C issues about Operating Systems: the project is written in C and the issue is about Operating Systems. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly.

Operating Systems

Open issues
39.3k
New this week
320
Nobody on it yet
37.3k
Average difficulty
4.1/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 4.1/5 across 42,269 issues.
  • 4% of 42,269 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Nov 13, 2026.

About Operating Systems

Operating systems manage a computer's hardware and run everything else on it. Issues here touch kernels, drivers, system libraries and the utilities that ship with them.

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How many Operating Systems issues are open here?
39,273 open issues: 320 opened in the last seven days, and 37,291 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
Where do I start?
Pick an issue marked beginner-friendly, read the project's contributing guide and comment before you begin. The contributor guide walks through it, from choosing an issue to your first pull request.
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