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Winux Operating System
Breathe New Life Into Your Computer - www.winux.is
Break free from hardware restrictions and forced upgrades. Winux is the definitive successor for Windows 10 users seeking performance and reliability. Featuring an Intuitive Familiar Interface and Native Compatibility for your essential software. -
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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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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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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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SysLinuxOS
SysLinuxOS for System Integrators
SysLinuxOS 13 (for System Integrators) is an Debian-based GNU/Linux live distribution, designed for system integrators and system administrators. It offers a complete networking environment that is organised to integrate various software tools, with others added by me, and has an friendly graphical interface using the Mate desktop. SysLinuxOS was built to work right out of the box, with all networking tools already installed by default. There is no need to install anything, it is a Swiss army knife to always carry with us. There are all the major Virtual Private Networks (VPN), several remote control clients, various browsers, as well as Wine, Wireshark, Etherape, Ettercap, PackETH, Packetsender, Putty, Nmap, Packet Tracer 8.2.2, Virtualbox 7.2, Munin, Zabbix-agent2, Icinga, Monit, Nagios4, Angry ip scan, docker, docker compose, tools for serial console and much more. Powered by liquorix kernel. -
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Haiku is an open-source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing.
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Just Use Linux JULinux
A Linux Distribution for Windows Users and Mac users
Goal: Create a Linux distribution that makes it easy and fun for Windows users to upgrade to Linux, without any real learning curve. -
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reactOS vmware image
reactos vmware image
vmware image for the REACTOS -
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Portable Linux
Portable Ubuntu Linux for Scientific Computing
Released August 22, 2013 Lubuntu Blends: Biochemistry 13.04 (Raring) v5.44 Linux Kernel Image 3.8.0-29 Lubuntu Blends are pre-installed Wubi disk image remixes of Ubuntu and Debian Science meta packages, A custom boot loader allows installations to be copied and automatically booted from most external or USB flash drives. Once up and running, use earlier Lubuntu Remix README instructions here until documentation is updated. https://sourceforge.net/projects/portable-linux/files/ Installation 1. Download the Wubi installer http://releases.ubuntu.com/saucy/wubi.exe 2. Install any flavor of Ubuntu. 3. Swap out the root.disk with the ones provided here. Overview LAMP stack running on localhost (127.0.0.1). Scientific, productivity & media packages include R (Rattle Data Miner), GridEngine, Condor, cooperative computing tools, WINE, LibreOffice, Evolution, Clinica, Neuro Debian Desktop, PsycoPy, OpenVibe, 3DSlicer, Paraview, Openshot. Cheers, Gregory Remington -
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v9os
Minimalist distro for SPARC servers, based on illumos kernel
v9os is a server-only, IPS-based minimal SPARC distribution of illumos. See http://milax.fi/v9os.html for quickstart -
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mintyMac winny
A complete windows 7 styled mintyMac xfce desktop with wine 1.7.22
mintyMac winny addition is our windows themed distro. Mac OS X themes are pre installed as well among many others. Made for the window user who wants a ready to go LINUX Distro that includes all the standard mintyMac releases features plus including the Full working Wine version 1.7.22 with pre installed software including , Video Light Box, Seamonkey web browser email client and WYSIWYG HTML editor and notepad ++, Whisker Menu, Docky, Evolution (email), Skype, Pidgin, Filezilla, Chromium Browser, Etherape, Miro, SMPlayer, VLC, Audacity, Abiword, Gimp, Inkscape, Bibletime plus much more including of course remastrersys for backups and building your own distro of LINUX. This version also includes Full working system event sounds as well as desktop login sound. -
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This FreeDOS distribution's primary focus is to provide a single source for updating or obtaining the latest FreeDOS BASE set, with emphasis on compatibility with ReactOS/WinNT (Win32 ports) and modern 386+ computers. FreeDOS is a trademark of Jim Hall
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el proyecto A.T.L.D. se trata de crear una distribucion basada en software libre funcional moderna destinada en ordenadores limitados pentuim estara basado usando una distro kernel linux y otra micronucleo match con hurd atld es 100 % software libre
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BNL OS is a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows XP/2003.This is not a Linux based system, and shares none of the unix architecture. Please remember, this is in the development stage, and is not reccommended for everyday use.
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CK 64 Kernel
The CK 64-Bit Kernel Operating System
This project is a implementation of layers. Use Virtual machines & virtual adapters alike an onion! Another operating solution instead of Microsoft Windows Server operating system. It is to be used via remote controlling. The special new "Cktool32" will make it easy to handle *Ck64Krnl*. -
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Allo stato attuale Internet non sara totalmente libera fintantochč non saranno completamente libere ed accessibili le strutture fisiche che lo trasportano.CityLAN vuole essere il manifesto di questa libertŕ...
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· Basado en Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64Bits · El usuario del modo LiveCD es "livecd" · Escritorios: Por defecto Unity, también está el GNOME Classic · Activada la hibernación · Agregados bastantes repositorios estables · Agregado: LibreOffice 4
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Digabi
Digabi OS
Digabi OS is live-Linux distro for The Matriculation Examination Board of Finland. For downloads, see http://www.abitti.fi/ For sources, see https://github.com/digabi/digabi-os -
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Drauger OS
Ubuntu-based Linux Gaming OS
Drauger OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux desktop gaming distribution that ships with many modifications and optimizations over stock Ubuntu that are intended to improve gaming performance and the gaming experience. From simple changes such as swapping Gnome out for the light-weight Xfce Desktop Environment and using a dark GTK theme by default, to more complex changes such as using a kernel compiled in-house and replacing PulseAudio with Pipewire. Drauger OS is built from the ground up with our primary focus on performance. DRAUGER OS IS NO LONGER PROVIDED FROM THIS SOURCE. CHECK OUT https://draugeros.org. -
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DreamStudio by Volocian Studios
Free yourself
Volocian believes first and foremost that financial status shouldn’t be a barrier to entry in multimedia content creation. Whether you want to design a product or website, record a band, remix a song, or produce a feature length movie with professional post production graphics and effects, Volocian™ wants to help, even if you’re using borrowed hardware with no previous experience. We provide affordable products and services for any budget, including cost-free solutions for education and demo purposes, while everything we do is designed with ease of use and flexibility in mind, to suit everyone from novice hobbyists to expert professionals. Wherever possible, Volocian™ relies on free, open source, and cross-platform software to prevent vendor lock-in, planned obsolescence, and software as a service licensing. While we remain pragmatic about the use of proprietary software, as we’re aware of the feature limitations of some open source solutions, free solutions are preferred. -
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Emacs Prelude
Enhanced Emacs 25.1+ distribution
Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 25.1+ distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful. Prelude is an Emacs distribution that aims to enhance the default Emacs experience. Prelude alters a lot of the default settings, bundles a plethora of additional packages and adds its own core library to the mix. The final product offers an easy to use Emacs configuration for Emacs newcomers and lots of additional power for Emacs power users. Prelude bundles a bunch of smaller packages and makes many more packages available via optional modules. Basic support for many programming languages will be auto-installed when needed (e.g. the first time you open a source file for some language). Prelude aims to enhance the classic Emacs experience without deviating a lot from it. -
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Firefly failsafe
failsafe image for illumos based distributions
Firefly is small failsafe image for illumos based distributions -
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FreeOS/1 is a Free, Open Source, FreeDOS based Free and Open Source Alternative OS, with open source Microsoft Windows compatibility using HXDOSExtender KernelEx,and ReactOS source code. FreeOS/1 will include new technologies and will be easy to use
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GMDEtouch
A desktop OS designed for touchscreen phones and tablets!
GMDEtouch - Game Maker Desktop Environment - is a Desktop Environment for tablets, it allows using a combination of desktop applications, and touchscreen apps to make productivity that much easier