LiberNT

LiberNT

A free NT operating system.

Built out of love for the NT architecture. Targeting Windows® 11 compatibility, with room for freestyle and experimental features.

Tests passing59%
CI results on AMD64 (CI dashboard soon)

Why LiberNT.

Windows 11 as the reference

Kernel and application behavior follows Windows 11 and is checked against it test by test.

A new NT memory manager

NVS, a clean-room memory and cache manager written for LiberNT, replaces the one inherited from ReactOS and runs faster in our measurements.

64-bit platforms

Native amd64 and arm64, with riscv64 in progress and 32-bit x86 still supported, all built from one source tree.

Windows apps on ARM64

WoW64, ARM64EC and the FEX emulator run x86 Windows applications on ARM64 machines.

Modern graphics

WDDM display drivers with hardware-accelerated OpenGL and a composited desktop, starting with the Raspberry Pi 5 and 3.

Modern storage and USB

A modern StorPort with an NVMe driver, a new NTFS driver, USB 3.0 through xHCI, SD cards, and USB RNDIS networking and game controllers.

See it in action.

LiberNT desktop on ARM64

LiberNT desktop on ARM64

System properties, Task Manager and Google Chrome playing a YouTube video on an ARM64 development build, captured on 30 September 2026.

Google Chrome on ARM64

Google Chrome on ARM64

Google Chrome for ARM64 browsing YouTube on an ARM64 development build, captured on 30 September 2026.

0 A.D. on ARM64

0 A.D. on ARM64

The open-source strategy game 0 A.D. (Release XXVIII, Boiorix) in a match on an ARM64 development build, captured on 30 September 2026.

Steam on ARM64

Steam on ARM64

The Steam client's sign-in screen on an ARM64 development build, captured on 30 September 2026.

RPCS3 on ARM64

RPCS3 on ARM64

The RPCS3 PlayStation 3 emulator (0.0.42 Alpha) starting on an ARM64 development build, captured on 30 September 2026.

Join the project.

LiberNT is built in the open. Try a build, report what you find, or send a change.