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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.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100
Maintainers usually reply within 4 days
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100
eunomia-bpf/bpftime#779 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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area: kernel area: runtime kind: bug preview-effort: small priority: low
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 89/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
OpenXiangShan/NEMU#1289 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
OpenXiangShan/NEMU#1287 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
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ltr30x: deadlock on kernel 6.18 – iio_device_claim_direct() return value inverted by compat macroOpen
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100
riscv-non-isa/riscv-iommu#810 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
CosmosOS/Cosmos#3410 · 4 comments ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 76/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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severity: low
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
luainkernel/lunatik#2389 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100
iory/build-your-own-arduino-rtos#72 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
joncampbell123/dosbox-x#6797 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 2 days
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
Zagitta/gpu-unlock#312 · 3 comments ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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bug P1
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100
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Bug :bug:
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage#30541 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Linux: out-of-bounds `keyMap` read when a keyboard with an `EV_ABS` axis is opened as a joystickOpen
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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severity: low
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
luainkernel/lunatik#2312 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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severity: low
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 77/100
luainkernel/lunatik#2305 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
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build OS-unsupported OS-windows type-bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 60/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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bug needs-triage
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100
X11Libre/xserver#4069 · 1 comment ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100
rr-debugger/rr#4145 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 2 days
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OS-windows type-bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
mentos-team/MentOS#485 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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[macOS] cpu_count() raises SystemError if sysctlbyname() failsMay be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Openbadexc bug macos
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 63/100
raspberrypi/linux#7718 · 2 comments ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 75/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#1479 · 2 comments ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100
johnsonjh/emu2-cpm86#91 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
CachyOS/linux-cachyos#1091 · 1 reaction ·
Maintainers usually reply within 2 days
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100
Metrohan/gxfp5130-linux#21 · 1 comment ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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HID windows
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
libusb/libusb#1977 · 2 comments ·
Maintainers usually reply within 3 days
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enhancement
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
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enhancement
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100
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base-files: 82_config_generate: regenerate /etc/board.json if 0-bytes / truncated after power cutOpen
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
openwrt/openwrt#25940 · 5 comments ·
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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aix bug build-fail
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100
Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
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audit sixth pass 8: NtProtectVirtualMemory sizes the range from the unrounded offset (same defect fixed for locks in 60d47b2)May be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Openbug kernel P2
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
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