diff --git a/loader/goroot.go b/loader/goroot.go
index 5442df9b5d..ca56c4d49b 100644
--- a/loader/goroot.go
+++ b/loader/goroot.go
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ func GetCachedGoroot(config *compileopts.Config) (string, error) {
 	}
 
 	// Find the overrides needed for the goroot.
-	overrides := pathsToOverride(config.GoMinorVersion, needsSyscallPackage(config.BuildTags()))
+	overrides := pathsToOverride(config.GoMinorVersion, config.BuildTags())
 
 	// Resolve the merge links within the goroot.
 	merge, err := listGorootMergeLinks(goroot, tinygoroot, overrides)
@@ -225,9 +225,28 @@ func needsSyscallPackage(buildTags []string) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
-// The boolean indicates whether to merge the subdirs. True means merge, false
-// means use the TinyGo version.
-func pathsToOverride(goMinor int, needsSyscallPackage bool) map[string]bool {
+// linuxNetworking returns whether the unmodified go linux net stack should be used
+// until the full rework of the net package is done.
+// To ensure the correct build target, check for the following tags:
+// linux && !baremetal && !nintendoswitch && !tinygo.wasm
+func linuxNetworking(buildTags []string) bool {
+	targetLinux := false
+	for _, tag := range buildTags {
+		if tag == "linux" {
+			targetLinux = true
+		}
+		if tag == "baremetal" || tag == "nintendoswitch" || tag == "tinygo.wasm" {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return targetLinux
+}
+
+// The boolean indicates whether to merge the subdirs.
+//
+// True: Merge the golang and tinygo source directories.
+// False: Uses the TinyGo version exclusively.
+func pathsToOverride(goMinor int, buildTags []string) map[string]bool {
 	paths := map[string]bool{
 		"":                            true,
 		"crypto/":                     true,
@@ -250,7 +269,7 @@ func pathsToOverride(goMinor int, needsSyscallPackage bool) map[string]bool {
 		"internal/task/":              false,
 		"internal/wasi/":              false,
 		"machine/":                    false,
-		"net/":                        true,
+		"net/":                        true, // this is important if the GOOS != linux
 		"net/http/":                   false,
 		"os/":                         true,
 		"reflect/":                    false,
@@ -267,9 +286,18 @@ func pathsToOverride(goMinor int, needsSyscallPackage bool) map[string]bool {
 		paths["crypto/internal/boring/sig/"] = false
 	}
 
-	if needsSyscallPackage {
+	if needsSyscallPackage(buildTags) {
 		paths["syscall/"] = true // include syscall/js
 	}
+
+	// To make sure the correct version of the net package is used, it is advised
+	// to clean the go cache before building
+	if linuxNetworking(buildTags) {
+		for _, v := range []string{"crypto/tls/", "net/http/", "net/"} {
+			delete(paths, v) // remote entries so go stdlib is used
+		}
+	}
+
 	return paths
 }
 
diff --git a/loader/loader.go b/loader/loader.go
index e935a9de3a..f94fc70f8e 100644
--- a/loader/loader.go
+++ b/loader/loader.go
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ func (p *Program) getOriginalPath(path string) string {
 			originalPath = realgorootPath
 		}
 		maybeInTinyGoRoot := false
-		for prefix := range pathsToOverride(p.config.GoMinorVersion, needsSyscallPackage(p.config.BuildTags())) {
+		for prefix := range pathsToOverride(p.config.GoMinorVersion, p.config.BuildTags()) {
 			if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
 				prefix = strings.ReplaceAll(prefix, "/", "\\")
 			}
diff --git a/src/runtime/netpoll.go b/src/runtime/netpoll.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e4157b994f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/runtime/netpoll.go
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+// Copyright 2024 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+//go:build linux
+
+package runtime
+
+// For debugging purposes this is used for all target architectures, but this is only valid for linux systems.
+// TODO: add linux specific build tags
+type pollDesc struct {
+	runtimeCtx uintptr
+}
+
+func (pd *pollDesc) wait(mode int, isFile bool) error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+const (
+	pollNoError        = 0 // no error
+	pollErrClosing     = 1 // descriptor is closed
+	pollErrTimeout     = 2 // I/O timeout
+	pollErrNotPollable = 3 // general error polling descriptor
+)
+
+//go:linkname poll_runtime_pollReset internal/poll.runtime_pollReset
+func poll_runtime_pollReset(pd *pollDesc, mode int) int {
+	// println("poll_runtime_pollReset not implemented", pd, mode)
+	return pollNoError
+}
+
+//go:linkname poll_runtime_pollWait internal/poll.runtime_pollWait
+func poll_runtime_pollWait(pd *pollDesc, mode int) int {
+	// println("poll_runtime_pollWait not implemented", pd, mode)
+	return pollNoError
+}
+
+//go:linkname poll_runtime_pollSetDeadline internal/poll.runtime_pollSetDeadline
+func poll_runtime_pollSetDeadline(pd *pollDesc, d int64, mode int) {
+	// println("poll_runtime_pollSetDeadline not implemented", pd, d, mode)
+}
+
+//go:linkname poll_runtime_pollOpen internal/poll.runtime_pollOpen
+func poll_runtime_pollOpen(fd uintptr) (*pollDesc, int) {
+	// println("poll_runtime_pollOpen not implemented", fd)
+	return &pollDesc{runtimeCtx: uintptr(0x1337)}, pollNoError
+}
diff --git a/src/runtime/netpoll_generic.go b/src/runtime/netpoll_generic.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f5f26d84d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/runtime/netpoll_generic.go
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+// Copyright 2024 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+//go:build !linux
+
+package runtime
+
+const (
+	pollNoError        = 0 // no error
+	pollErrClosing     = 1 // descriptor is closed
+	pollErrTimeout     = 2 // I/O timeout
+	pollErrNotPollable = 3 // general error polling descriptor
+)
+
+// Network poller descriptor.
+//
+// No heap pointers.
+// For linux to call create Fds with a pollDesc, it needs a ctxRuntime pointer, so use the original pollDesc struct.
+// On linux we have a heap.
+type pollDesc struct{}
+
+//go:linkname poll_runtime_pollReset internal/poll.runtime_pollReset
+func poll_runtime_pollReset(pd *pollDesc, mode int) int {
+	println("poll_runtime_pollReset not implemented", pd, mode)
+	return pollErrClosing
+}
+
+//go:linkname poll_runtime_pollWait internal/poll.runtime_pollWait
+func poll_runtime_pollWait(pd *pollDesc, mode int) int {
+	println("poll_runtime_pollWait not implemented", pd, mode)
+	return pollErrClosing
+}
+
+//go:linkname poll_runtime_pollSetDeadline internal/poll.runtime_pollSetDeadline
+func poll_runtime_pollSetDeadline(pd *pollDesc, d int64, mode int) {
+	println("poll_runtime_pollSetDeadline not implemented", pd, d, mode)
+}
diff --git a/src/runtime/poll.go b/src/runtime/poll.go
index 2713bbea7e..a880272c87 100644
--- a/src/runtime/poll.go
+++ b/src/runtime/poll.go
@@ -4,20 +4,21 @@ package runtime
 
 //go:linkname poll_runtime_pollServerInit internal/poll.runtime_pollServerInit
 func poll_runtime_pollServerInit() {
-	panic("todo: runtime_pollServerInit")
+	// fmt.Printf("poll_runtime_pollServerInit not implemented, skipping panic\n")
 }
 
-//go:linkname poll_runtime_pollOpen internal/poll.runtime_pollOpen
-func poll_runtime_pollOpen(fd uintptr) (uintptr, int) {
-	panic("todo: runtime_pollOpen")
-}
+// //go:linkname poll_runtime_pollOpen internal/poll.runtime_pollOpen
+// func poll_runtime_pollOpen(fd uintptr) (uintptr, int) {
+// 	// fmt.Printf("poll_runtime_pollOpen not implemented, skipping panic\n")
+// 	return 0, 0
+// }
 
 //go:linkname poll_runtime_pollClose internal/poll.runtime_pollClose
 func poll_runtime_pollClose(ctx uintptr) {
-	panic("todo: runtime_pollClose")
+	// fmt.Printf("poll_runtime_pollClose not implemented, skipping panic\n")
 }
 
 //go:linkname poll_runtime_pollUnblock internal/poll.runtime_pollUnblock
 func poll_runtime_pollUnblock(ctx uintptr) {
-	panic("todo: runtime_pollUnblock")
+	// fmt.Printf("poll_runtime_pollUnblock not implemented, skipping panic\n")
 }
diff --git a/src/runtime/sync.go b/src/runtime/sync.go
index a0851401a0..bf0499fe9e 100644
--- a/src/runtime/sync.go
+++ b/src/runtime/sync.go
@@ -1,13 +1,52 @@
+// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
 package runtime
 
+import (
+	"internal/futex"
+)
+
 // This file contains stub implementations for internal/poll.
+// The official golang implementation states:
+//
+// "That is, don't think of these as semaphores.
+// Think of them as a way to implement sleep and wakeup
+// such that every sleep is paired with a single wakeup,
+// even if, due to races, the wakeup happens before the sleep."
+//
+// This is an experimental and probably incomplete implementation of the
+// semaphore system, tailed to the network use case. That means, that it does not
+// implement the modularity that the semacquire/semacquire1 implementation model
+// offers, which in fact is emitted here entirely.
+// This means we assume the following constant settings from the golang standard
+// library: lifo=false,profile=semaBlock,skipframe=0,reason=waitReasonSemaquire
 
 //go:linkname semacquire internal/poll.runtime_Semacquire
 func semacquire(sema *uint32) {
-	panic("todo: semacquire")
+	var semaBlock futex.Futex
+	semaBlock.Store(*sema)
+
+	// check if we can acquire the semaphore
+	semaBlock.Wait(1)
+
+	// the semaphore is free to use so we can acquire it
+	if semaBlock.Swap(0) != 1 {
+		panic("semaphore is already acquired, racy")
+	}
 }
 
 //go:linkname semrelease internal/poll.runtime_Semrelease
 func semrelease(sema *uint32) {
-	panic("todo: semrelease")
+	var semaBlock futex.Futex
+	semaBlock.Store(*sema)
+
+	// check if we can release the semaphore
+	if semaBlock.Swap(1) != 0 {
+		panic("semaphore is not acquired, racy")
+	}
+
+	// wake up the next waiter
+	semaBlock.Wake()
 }
diff --git a/src/syscall/forklock.go b/src/syscall/forklock.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a158b24871
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/syscall/forklock.go
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+//go:build tinygo && linux && !wasip1 && !wasip2 && tinygo.wasm && !wasm_unknown && !darwin && !baremetal && !nintendoswitch
+
+package syscall
+
+import (
+	"sync"
+)
+
+var ForkLock sync.RWMutex
+
+func CloseOnExec(fd int) {
+	system.CloseOnExec(fd)
+}
+
+func SetNonblock(fd int, nonblocking bool) (err error) {
+	return system.SetNonblock(fd, nonblocking)
+}
diff --git a/src/syscall/syscall_libc.go b/src/syscall/syscall_libc.go
index 0ef9784283..5cacc0c8bb 100644
--- a/src/syscall/syscall_libc.go
+++ b/src/syscall/syscall_libc.go
@@ -215,7 +215,11 @@ func Truncate(path string, length int64) (err error) {
 func Faccessat(dirfd int, path string, mode uint32, flags int) (err error)
 
 func Kill(pid int, sig Signal) (err error) {
-	return ENOSYS // TODO
+	result := libc_kill(int32(pid), int32(sig))
+	if result < 0 {
+		err = getErrno()
+	}
+	return
 }
 
 type SysProcAttr struct{}
@@ -418,3 +422,8 @@ func libc_execve(filename *byte, argv **byte, envp **byte) int
 //
 //export truncate
 func libc_truncate(path *byte, length int64) int32
+
+// int kill(pid_t pid, int sig);
+//
+//export kill
+func libc_kill(pid, sig int32) int32
diff --git a/testdata/net.go b/testdata/net.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2a7908fa1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testdata/net.go
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"net"
+	"strconv"
+)
+
+// Test golang network package integration for tinygo.
+// This test is not exhaustive and only tests the basic functionality of the package.
+
+var (
+	testsPassed uint
+	lnPort      int
+	err         error
+	recvBuf     []byte
+)
+
+var (
+	testDialListenData = []byte("Hello tinygo :)")
+)
+
+func TestDialListen() {
+	// listen thread
+	listenReady := make(chan bool, 1)
+	go func() {
+		ln, err := net.Listen("tcp4", ":0")
+		if err != nil {
+			println("error listening: ", err)
+			return
+		}
+		lnPort = ln.Addr().(*net.TCPAddr).Port
+
+		listenReady <- true
+		conn, err := ln.Accept()
+		if err != nil {
+			println("error accepting:", err)
+			return
+		}
+
+		recvBuf = make([]byte, len(testDialListenData))
+		if _, err := io.ReadFull(conn, recvBuf); err != nil {
+			println("error reading: ", err)
+			return
+		}
+
+		if string(recvBuf) != string(testDialListenData) {
+			println("error: received data does not match sent data", string(recvBuf), " != ", string(testDialListenData))
+			return
+		}
+		conn.Close()
+
+		return
+	}()
+
+	<-listenReady
+	conn, err := net.Dial("tcp4", "127.0.0.1:"+strconv.FormatInt(int64(lnPort), 10))
+	if err != nil {
+		println("error dialing: ", err)
+		return
+	}
+
+	if _, err = conn.Write(testDialListenData); err != nil {
+		println("error writing: ", err)
+		return
+	}
+}
+
+func main() {
+	println("test: net start")
+	TestDialListen()
+	println("test: net end")
+}
diff --git a/testdata/net.txt b/testdata/net.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..82681e45a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testdata/net.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+test: net start
+test: net end
\ No newline at end of file