Par architecture
| Noyau | Noyau monolithique | Noyau monolithique modulaire | Micro-noyau | Micro-noyau enrichi | Noyau hybride | Temps réel | Exemples de systèmes d'exploitation associés | Éditeur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accent |  | Université Carnegie Mellon | ||||||
| AIX | | Non | | AIX | IBM | |||
| Amoeba | | | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | |||||
| BeOS | | | | BeOS | Be_Incorporated | |||
| Anciens BSD | | Non | Non | BSD | Université de Berkeley | |||
| BSD 4.4 | | Non | Non | BSD - Solaris 1 | Sun_Microsystems | |||
| Chorus | | | Sun_Microsystems | |||||
| Coyotos | | | Université Johns Hopkins | |||||
| Fiasco | | | GNU/L4Linux/Fiasco | Université technologique de Dresde | ||||
| HURD | | Non | Non | GNU/HURD | GNU | |||
| Irix | | Non | | Irix | SGI | |||
| Jaluna | | | | Jaluna/Chorus | Janula | |||
| L4 | | | GNU/HURD ; GNU/L4linux | Université de technologie de Dresde | ||||
| Linux < 1.2 | | Non | Non | GNU/Linux | Linus Torvalds | |||
| Linux > 1.2 | | Non | Non | GNU/Linux | Linus Torvalds | |||
| LynuxWorks | | | | GNU/Linux/LynuxWorks | LynuxWorks | |||
| Mach | | | Mac OS X, Darwin, GNU/HURD, GNU/Mklinux | Carnegie Mellon University | ||||
| Minix | | Non | | Minix | Andrew S. Tanenbaum | |||
| NewOS | | | | Haiku | Haiku Inc | |||
| NeXTStep | | | Non | NeXTStep | NeXT | |||
| nk.exe | | Windows CE | Microsoft | |||||
| Nucleus | | | | Nucleus | ||||
| OS/2 | | Non | Non | OS/2 | IBM | |||
| OS/360 | | Non | Non | OS/360 | IBM | |||
| QNX | | | | QNX | QNX | |||
| RTAI | | | | GNU/RTAI | École polytechnique de Milan | |||
| RT-OS360/75 | | Non | | IBM RTOS | IBM | |||
| Singularity | Windows Singularity | Microsoft | ||||||
| Unix SysVr4 / SunOS 5 | | Non | Non | Solaris 7 et suivant | Sun Microsystems | |||
| VxWorks | | | | Windows/VxWorks, BSD/VxWorks | Wind River Systems | |||
| Windows NT (Noyau de) | | | Non | Windows NT | Microsoft | |||
| XNU | | | | Mac OS X, Darwin | Apple |