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CachyOS
Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution
CachyOS - Arch Linux Based Distribution With Heavy Optimizations & Multi-Architectures For Ultimate Desktop Experience Filesystems: - btrfs - zfs - ext4 - xfs - f2fs Our installer will auto detect which micro architecture your machine got, if x86-64-v3 or x86-64-v4 is detected it will automatically use the optimized packages, which is around a 10 % performance improvement. Desktop Environments: - KDE - CuteFish - i3 - Gnome - Openbox - Wayfire - Xfce - LXQT - bspwm All packages are compiled with Full LTO and other optimization flags. Depending on the march your cpu have it is compiled against x86-64, x86-64-v3 or x86-64-v4. For the Desktop Environment we provide basic theming. In CachyOS-Hello can be also security related packages enabled, like: DNScrypt-proxy Firejail apparmor Security and Performance! https://discord.gg/qJqj94uFwE https://t.me/+zCzPX4cAFjk1MTY -
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deepin is a Debian-based distribution that aims to provide an elegant, user-friendly and reliable operating system. It does not only include the best the open source world has to offer, but it has also created its own desktop environment called DDE or Deepin Desktop Environment which is based on the Qt 5 toolkit. Deepin focuses much of its attention on intuitive design. Its home-grown applications, like Deepin Software Centre, DMusic and DPlayer are tailored to the average user. Being easy to install and use, deepin can be a good Windows alternative for office and home use.
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ReactOS
An operating system based on the best Windows NT design principles
ReactOS is an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003). -
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Arrow OS
It is an AOSP based project with an aim of keeping things clean!
ArrowOS is an AOSP based open source project started with the aim of keeping things simple, clean and neat, both for the Android system and users. We understand the pain of unnecessary and sometimes rarely used mods/features being shipped with custom roms nowadays which may end up causing battery drains and/or memory leaks. This is being strictly avoided on our side keeping everything to a bare minimum, delivering the stable performance all the time without destroying the AOSP interface. With users getting more used to tweaks and features, we added just the right stuff that will be actually USEFUL at the end of the day. -
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Ultimate Edition
An Ubuntu remix for both new and experienced Linux sophisticates
Ultimate Edition Linux, previously "Ubuntu Ultimate Edition". We cater to a large base of *nix users including, but certainly not limited to gamers & low resource computers. We have a Ultimate Edition for virtually any user. -
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Sandboxie
Sandboxie Plus & Classic
Sandboxie (and its enhanced fork Sandboxie Plus) is an open-source sandboxing tool for Windows NT-based systems. It creates isolated virtual environments in which applications can run safely without permanently modifying the system, ideal for testing untrusted software. Sandboxie Classic has the old no longer developed MFC-based UI, hence it lacks native interface support for Plus features. Although some of the missing features can be configured manually in the Sandboxie.ini configuration file or even replaced with custom scripts, the Classic edition is not recommended for users who want to explore the latest security options. A completely different token creation mechanism from Sandboxie's pre-open-source version makes sandboxes more independent in the system. -
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RichARCH
Your concierge creating a Rich experience to Arch
RichARCH is designed to be a Quick Simpler Path to Arch with automation and ricing options. * Just one command line to start the latest complete installer for Arch. One goal is to only use packages in the basic Arch Linux repos by default with the option to install some non-standard packages. Our hope is that this will help to make Arch Linux more approachable to individual and corporate users. GUIs: Budgie/Cinnamon/Cosmic/Enlightenment/Gnome/Hyprland/KDE/Labwc/LXDE/LXQT/Mate/Niri/River/Sway/XFCE Kernels: linux/linux-cachyos/linux-hardened/linux-lqx/linux-lts/linux-nitrous/linux-tachyon/linux-zen/linux-znver2/linux-znver3/linux-znver4/linux-znver5 Profiles: SecOps/Server/Omarchy/DonArch/HyprVibe/KoolsDots/SaatvikDots/ShellNinja/VaelixdDots More info at: https://download.sourceforge.net/richarch/InstallAndInfo.pdf https://sourceforge.net/projects/richarch/files/README.md/download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjK67kdHkGU&t=6s -
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The AROS Research Operating System is an effort to implement an Open Source and portable operating system that is compatible with AmigaOS(TM). Originally, it was meant as a direct reimplementation, but already has features not existing in AmigaOS.
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O nome Br OS tem dois significados, Br vem de Brasil, o país de origem do sistema, OS é Operating System, e a junção do nome fica Bros, que é uma gíria norte americana para Brothers, que significa Irmãos. Basicamente o que queremos dizer é que nosso sistema foi feito para unir pessoas, seja pelo conteúdo gerado por ele, ou pela comunidade que ele forma. Somos um só povo.
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Kernelloader
Run Linux on the Playstation 2
Kernelloader is a free bootloader for PS2 Linux and other Playstation 2 operating systems. Loading can be done by "Action Replay Media Player", by "memory card exploit", by "FMCB" or any other homebrew loading method. If you downloaded the latest Linux Live DVD, you need to run the online updater to be able to play Youtube videos. -
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IPCop Firewall
Linux firewall distribution geared towards home and SOHO users.
The IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distribution. It is geared towards home and SOHO users. The IPCop web-interface is very user-friendly and makes usage easy. -
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Lingmo GNU/Linux (Lingmo OS) is a desktop based Linux operating system developed based on the open-source Debian kernel and adapted to the amd64 architecture. It has a beautiful desktop environment, software that is compatible with the desktop environment, and a unified UI style. The goal of Lingmo GNU/Linux is to provide users with a luxurious and practical desktop environment as well as a smooth experience on low performance hardware.
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NuttX
Real-Time Embedded Operating System
Nuttx is a real time embedded operating system (RTOS). Its goals are: (1) small footprint usable in deeply embedded, resource constrained environments, (2) fully scalable from tiny (8-bit) to moderate (32-bit), (3) standards compliance, (4) real time, and (5) totally open. Think "Tiny Linux". NuttX is now and Apache project in incubation. See https://nuttx.apache.org/download/ for the latest downloads. -
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OpenWrt
A Linux operating system targeting embedded devices
OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned. -
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Pony OS
My Little Unix: Kernels are Magic
ponyos is a lightweight, UNIX-like operating system developed as a personal hobby project by the creator of ToaruOS. It features a monolithic kernel written in C and aims for a POSIX-compliant environment with a built-from-scratch userland. ponyos includes a graphical interface, dynamic linker, shared libraries, and a package manager. It’s designed for fun, experimentation, and as a platform to learn and play with operating system internals, with surprisingly advanced features given its hobbyist origin. -
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DreamShell
Operating system for the Sega Dreamcast
The Dreamshell is the operating system for the Sega Dreamcast based on the KallistiOS kernel. It has a dynamic loadable modular system and interface for creating applications with XML UI and both C/C++ and Lua scripts on. You can see examples in ready-made applications and modules, drivers for various devices, formats and interfaces. Examples for audio and video decoding, compression, packaging, binding, network, emulation, scripts and more. From hardcore low-level assembler to high-level applications. There is also large subproject is the ISO Loader, which contains emulation of BIOS system calls, CDDA playback, and VMU, also it can hooking interrupts for various SDKs and more. -
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Robolinux
Announcing Robolinux Cinnamon 14.1
Announcing The New Robolinux Series 14 Mate LTS - 2034 Robolinux is very pleased to announce a completely new 14.1 Mate privacy centered 1inux operating system you can download freely while also offering our users an optional 14+ advanced upgrade which comes with our Untracker and FAAST Boot along with one click popular privacy software installers like Tor and I2p, Wireshark and Bleachbit plus many more for a fair and reasonable price. Robolinux14.1-Mate is ideal for beginners and advanced users. We are proud that it comes with Enoch AI which is TOTALLY 100% PRIVATE, FREE, HONEST & UNCENSORED built into Robolinux Cinnamon 14.1 The Robolinux 14.1 version with rock solid Long Term Support through 2034! requires users to set secure boot in their BIOS. It is currently available in the Cinnamon desktop flavor. we will release series 14 Xfce version in the next two months.For more information please see Readme file. Warmest regards John Martinson Robolinux.org -
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WANem - Wide Area Network Emulator
Wide Area Network Emulator
WANem is a wide area network emulator. It supports various features such a bandwidth limitation, latency, packet loss, network disconnection among other wide area network characteristics. -
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AlienVault OSSIM
Open Source SIEM
OSSIM, AlienVault’s Open Source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) product, provides event collection, normalization and correlation. For more advanced functionality, AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) builds on OSSIM with these additional capabilities: * Log management * Advanced threat detection with a continuously updated library of pre-built correlation rules * Actionable threat intelligence updates from AlienVault Labs Security Research Team * Rich analytics dashboards and data visualization -
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ALG
A Fast, Offline, Graphical distribution based on Arch Linux
October 2025 ISOs have been released! 3 new ISOs - PLASMA, GNOME, XFCE have been released. Thank you to all the members in the ALG community for their support. -
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WINIX OS
A UNIX-style Operating System for the Waikato RISC Architecture
Winix is an experimental Unix-like operating system kernel written in modern C++ with an emphasis on object-oriented design and code clarity. It is a pedagogical project exploring how kernel-level programming can be structured with C++ abstractions while maintaining low-level control. Winix supports basic system services such as file systems, process management, and a terminal interface, and is designed for booting on x86_64 hardware via QEMU. It serves as an accessible and unconventional approach to understanding operating systems. -
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XNU
Legacy mirror of Darwin Kernel
Darwin XNU is the hybrid kernel that powers Apple’s macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS operating systems, forming the foundation of the Darwin open-source core. The name XNU stands for X is Not Unix, highlighting its origin as a combination of multiple kernel technologies—primarily the Mach microkernel from Carnegie Mellon University, integrated with substantial components from FreeBSD and Apple’s proprietary IOKit driver framework. This hybrid architecture merges the microkernel model’s message-passing flexibility with the monolithic performance and direct hardware control typical of Unix-like systems. XNU handles essential kernel responsibilities such as memory management, multitasking, interprocess communication (IPC), device I/O, system calls, security enforcement, and scheduling across both single and multi-core architectures. -
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Endian Firewall Community (EFW) is a "turn-key" linux security distribution that makes your system a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionalities. The software has been designed for the best usability: very easy to install, use and manage and still greatly flexible. The feature suite includes stateful packet inspection firewall, application-level proxies for various protocols (HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP) with antivirus support, virus and spam-filtering for email traffic (POP and SMTP), content filtering of Web traffic and a "hassle free" VPN solution (based on both OpenVPN and IPsec).
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Mobilinux - Linux for Android
This application will allow you to install and run Linux on Android !
The app supports ROOTED as well as NOROOTED devices. Use your mobile as a Pocket PC !! For Root Method: The application creates a disk image on a flash card, mounts it and installs an OS distribution. Applications of the new system are run in a chroot environment and working together with the Android platform. All changes made on the device are reversible, i.e. the application and components can be removed completely. Installation of a distribution is done by downloading files from official mirrors online over the internet. The application requires superuser rights (ROOT).Installing a new operating system takes about 15 minutes. The recommended minimum size of a disk image is 1024 MB (with LXDE), and without a GUI - 512 MB. Noroot Method: Install MOBICONSOLE addon and then install the linux on a non-rooted phone. -
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<<Hack|Track GNU/Linux
Distro Penetrasing Live System Burn to USB Flash Disk & Run.
<<Hack|Track GNU/Linux is an open source operating system developed by the HTGL Project from Indonesia which provides penetration testing.
