There is a design approach to improve operating system flexibility, called extensible operating system, that supports that operating systems must allow extensions in order to meet new requirements. There is also a design approach in application development that supports that complex systems should allow users to write scripts in order to let them make their own configuration decisions at run-time. Following these two design approaches, we have built an infrastructure that allows users to dynamically load and run Lua scripts into operating system kernels, improving their flexibility. In this thesis we present Lunatik, our scripting subsystem based on Lua, and show a real usage scenario in dynamically scaling CPU frequency and voltage. Lunatik is currently implemented both for NetBSD and Linux.