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It's your Operating System.
An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers, built with love by you. 100% Free & Open Source.
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Everywhere enterprise IT is headed, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is there. From the public cloud to the edge, it evolves to bring flexibility and reliability to new frontiers.
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Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
The goal is to create a "chromebook like" unbreakable computer to give to basic users who know nothing about Linux and won't need to ever worry about updates / upgrades.
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an opinionated setup of the Arch Linux distribution and the Hyprland tiling window manager.
Turn a fresh Arch installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system based on Hyprland by running a single command. That's the one-line pitch for Omarchy (like it was for Omakub). No need to write bespoke configs for every essential tool just to get started or to be up on all the latest command-line tools. Omarchy is an opinionated take on what Linux can be at its best.
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Kubernetes distribution for bare-metal, on-prem, edge, IoT.
k0s is the simple, solid & certified Kubernetes distribution that works on any infrastructure: bare-metal, on-premises, edge, IoT, public & private clouds. It's 100% open source & free.
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Just enough OS for KODI.
LibreELEC is a minimalist 'Just enough OS' Linux distribution for running Kodi. Our documentation can help you install and configure LibreELEC to run Kodi, or develop and build installation images using our buildsystem.
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AnduinOS is Ubuntu's package base + Flatpak app experience
AnduinOS is a custom Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that aims to facilitate developers transitioning from Windows to Linux by maintaining familiar operational habits and workflows.
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Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck. A device designed solely for writing.
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Simple by default, powerful when needed
Your favorite Linux distribution providing opinionated settings that make the Arch Linux base easy to use.
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Blue95 is a modern and lightweight desktop experience that is reminiscent of a bygone era of computing. Based on Fedora Atomic Xfce with the Chicago95 theme.
Arch Linux is a lightweight, customizable Linux distribution for advanced users, offering a minimal base system and continuous updates through a rolling release model. It emphasizes simplicity and user control, with extensive community support and documentation.
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Beautiful UI design, intimate human-computer interaction, and friendly community environment make you feel at home.
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The alternative to Windows and macOS designed to make your computer faster, more powerful, secure, and privacy-respecting.
Zorin OS is designed to be easy, so you don't need to learn anything to get started. The Zorin Appearance app lets you change the desktop layout to feel like the environment you're familiar with, whether it's Windows, macOS, or Linux.
Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution based on Arch Linux.
CachyOS is designed to deliver lightning-fast speeds and stability, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable computing experience every time you use it. Whether you're a seasoned Linux user or just starting out, CachyOS is the ideal choice for those looking for a powerful, customizable and blazingly fast operating system.
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Simple, Immutable, Reproducible
SnowflakeOS is a NixOS based Linux distribution focused on beginner friendliness and ease of use.
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LiGurOS is a source based distribution building upon code and packages from a broad family of Gentoo-based distributions. Source based means all the software is compiled from source. The Gentoo-family of operating systems heavily uses portage as the package manager with the ability to change settings globally but also per package. So you can specify what exact configuration options are passed to the package upon building. This results in a operating system without bloat and running optimized for your processor.
Pentoo is a Live CD and Live USB designed for penetration testing and security assessment. Based off Gentoo Linux, Pentoo is provided both as 32 and 64 bit installable livecd.
Penetration Testing Distribution.
BlackArch Linux is an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. The repository contains 2828 tools. You can install tools individually or in groups. BlackArch Linux is compatible with existing Arch installs.
Effortlessly deploy apps using a container — minimal know-how required.
Infinite OS is a container operating system designed to allow you to deploy applications knowing little to nothing about containers. It comes with a user-friendly dashboard, REST API, and CLI for seamless container management.
The thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS.
Automatically build (netboot) images for NixOS.
Automatically weekly updated images for NixOS. This project is intended to extend the images created by hydra.nixos.org.
La distribution éducative.
Un système informatique dédié à l’apprentissage et conçu par des pédagogues, pour l’école et la maison. Primtux contient des applications libres créées par des professeurs, pour des professeurs et leurs élèves.
Determinate Nix is the easy button for Nix. Simple, secure, and confident. Stop fussing with the maintenance and just build.
Ubuntu Unity is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the Unity7 desktop environment (the default desktop environment used by Ubuntu from 2010-2017).
It is actively developed and maintained, with releases of Unity7 every year. Learn more about Unity7 at unityd.org.
EasyOS was born in January 2017, and since then there have been bits and pieces written here and there about how and why it is different from other Linux distributions. This includes some rather technical descriptions. What is needed is a simple plain-English list, so that anyone can get a quick idea of what EasyOS is all about.
EasyOS is designed from scratch to support containers. Any app can run in a container, in fact an entire desktop can run in a container. Container management is by a simple GUI, no messing around on the commandline. The container mechanism is named Easy Containers, and is designed from scratch (Docker, LXC, etc are not used).
A Lean KDE Distribution.
KaOS is an independent distribution focused on Qt and KDE. The idea behind KaOS is to create a tightly integrated rolling and transparent distribution for the modern desktop, build from scratch with a very specific focus. Focus on one DE (KDE Plasma), one toolkit (Qt), one architecture (x86_64) plus a focus on evaluating and selecting the most suitable tools and applications.
Open source Linux distro optimized for self-hosting.
StartOS is an open source Linux distribution optimized for running a personal server. It facilitates the discovery, installation, network configuration, service configuration, data backup, dependency management, and health monitoring of self-hosted software services.
Plasma Mobile is an open-source user interface for mobile devices developed by the KDE community. The project works with various Linux distributions to bring an open platform to your mobile device.
Built on the foundations of Plasma Desktop, Plasma Mobile brings its flexibility to a mobile form factor.
Dive into a new Pentesting Experience with Athena OS!
Athena OS is an open-source, NixOS-based distribution intended to build a new concept of pentesting operating system. Its purpose is to offer a different experience than the most used pentesting distributions by providing reproducibility, flexibility, isolation, default packages that fit with the user needs, diverse hacking resources and learning materials.
SaaS-simple deployment of Kubernetes - on your own hardware.
Omni manages Kubernetes on bare metal, virtual machines, or in a cloud. Built on Talos Linux by the folks at Sidero.
An Omakase Developer Setup for Ubuntu 24.04 by DHH.
Turn a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command. That's the one-line pitch for Omakub. No need to write bespoke configs for every essential tool just to get started or to be up on all the latest command-line tools. Omakub is an opinionated take on what Linux can be at its best.
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Yet another minimal Linux distribution, based on Arch Linux.
Archcraft is just another Linux distribution, made on top of Arch Linux. It uses window managers and lightweight applications, which makes it super fast. With pre-configured settings, Archcraft provides you the best out of the box window manager experience.
Everyone should have control over their personal data and privacy
HexOS combines a simplified UI, automations, workflows, and managed services with user-provided hardware to offer elegant home server management for off-the-shelf server appliances, custom-built hardware, and even recycled PCs. Powered by TrueNAS, the world's most deployed enterprise-grade storage platform, HexOS provides a highly reliable and easy-to-use solution to store, use, and protect your data.
Void is a general purpose operating system, based on the monolithic Linux kernel. Its package system allows you to quickly install, update and remove software; software is provided in binary packages or can be built directly from sources with the help of the XBPS source packages collection.
Serpent OS is an independent Linux-based operating system built upon a variety of open source technologies. Most importantly, it is an attempt to provide a sane installation that cannot be "broken" by updates. It does this through a variety of recovery mechanisms, including on-disk offline rollbacks and system deduplication.
The Next Generation Linux Workstation.
Bluefin is an operating system for your computer. The best of both worlds: the reliability and ease of use of a Chromebook, with the power of a GNOME desktop.
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The Universal Blue project builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using Fedora Atomic Desktop's support for OCI/Docker containers. That's nerdspeak for the ultimate Linux client: the reliability of a Chromebook, but with the flexibility and power of a traditional Linux desktop.
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A free Windows-compatible Operating System.
Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That's the mission of ReactOS
The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done".
Aeon is great for anyone who wants a computer that "just works"; in particular it is perfect for the "lazy developer" who prefers to spend their time getting things done while letting their desktop take care of itself. The OS is static, automated and reliable, letting you focus on your apps and work.
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An operating system designed for hosting containers. Bottlerocket is an operating system for the worker nodes in an orchestrated container cluster.
Bottlerocket is a Linux-based operating system optimized for hosting containers. It’s free and open-source software, developed in the open on GitHub. Bottlerocket is installed as the base operating system on the machine or instance where your containers themselves are running. It is specifically designed to work with your container orchestrator (like Kubernetes) to automate the lifecycle of the containers running in your cluster. Bottlerocket runs in the cloud or in your datacenter.
Dr.Parted Live is a bootable GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian testing. Live CD/USB featuring a lightweight Openbox window manager and useful applications for data backup, restore and recovery. It contains Apart GUI that is a front end to the Partclone command line utility, and is capable of bare-metal backup and recovery of disk partitions. It can use external hard drives and network shares. Dr.Parted also aims to provide an easy way to carry out administration tasks on a computer, such as creating and editing hard disk partitions. Although GParted and Apart GTK are the main programs, the CD/USB also offers other applications, such as Netsurf, GSmart Control, Connman, Grsync, Xarchiver, HD Sentinel, USBimager, etc. It also contains a suite of powerful command line tools: clonezilla, testdisk, partimage, photorec, ddrescue, nwipe, scalpel, safecopy, fsarchiver, memtester, curl, wget, cryptsetup, chntpw, wipe and hdparm.
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
The DIY open source retrogaming emulation console. The open source game console.
Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a small computer into a full blown retrogaming console.
An Open Source ZFS NAS for the community. A community based fork of TrueNAS CORE.
Linux for ARM development boards. Perfect for server and IOT.
Ultralight Linux optimized for custom ARM / RISC-V or Intel / AMD hardware Comes with powerful ZSH or standard BASH shell.
Bringing the console gaming experience to PC. A Steam Big Picture based couch gaming OS
Converged Container and Virtual Machine Hypervisor.
SmartOS, with its remarkable blend of the illumos kernel's power and the agility of a lightweight OS, has become the preferred choice for many specialized applications. While it shines as a standalone system, its capabilities are truly amplified when used with Triton Compute.
Linutop Kiosk is a software that allows you to set up your computer as Internet kiosk or digital signage.
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Internet Kiosk: This software allows you to select the starting homepage and lock the Linutop on designated websites or block certain websites.
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Linutop Kiosk for digital signage :This software can display automatically JPEG images, web pages URLs, video files and PDF on a screen.
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Linutop OS est disponible pour le Raspberry Pi Zéro @ LinuxFr.org :fr:.
Open-source hyperconverged infrastructure.
The open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution for a cloud native world. Harvester is a modern, open, interoperable, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution built on Kubernetes. It is an open-source alternative designed for operators seeking a cloud-native HCI solution. Harvester runs on bare metal servers and provides integrated virtualization and distributed storage capabilities. In addition to traditional virtual machines (VMs), Harvester supports containerized environments automatically through integration with Rancher. It offers a solution that unifies legacy virtualized infrastructure while enabling the adoption of containers from core to edge locations.
Flatcar Container Linux,
A community Linux distribution designed for container workloads, with high security and low maintenance.
open source big data platform.
Trunk Data Platform is an Open Source, free, Hadoop distribution.
A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System.
GhostBSD provides a simple desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD with MATE and OS packages for simplicity. In addition, GhostBSD has a selection of commonly used software preinstalled to make it easy on your computing journey.
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This test will help you choose a suitable Linux distribution.
Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck, and a ready-to-game SteamOS-like for desktop computers, living room home theater PCs, and numerous other handheld PCs.
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Mageia is a GNU/Linux-based, Free Software operating system. It is a community project, supported by a nonprofit organisation of elected contributors.
Our mission: to build great tools for people. Beyond just delivering a secure, stable and sustainable operating system, the goal is also to become and maintain a credible and recognized community in the free software world.
Mageia started in September 2010 as a fork of Mandriva Linux.
a Debian based distro
The goal of this project is to make an Xfce Debian based system that is much like Xubuntu.
Beautiful. Efficient. Elegant.
The only operating system you'll ever need. A seamless blend of all Linux distributions, Android apps and web apps.
Your Beautiful Ubuntu Linux Distribution.
UbuntuDDE is a Remix flavor of Ubuntu system with Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) . UbuntuDDE is a linux distribution based on Ubuntu with the most beautiful desktop environment. UbuntuDDE Remix is developed and maintained by the UbuntuDDE Community.
SparkyLinux is a GNU/Linux distribution based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.
Sparky is a fast, lightweight and fully customizable operating system which offers several versions for different use cases.