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ArrowOS
ArrowOS
An AOSP based project started with the goal of keeping things simple, clean, and organized. We added features that will be helpful in the long run, while aiming to deliver smooth performance and longer battery life.Starting Price: Free -
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Havoc-OS
Havoc-OS
Havoc-OS is an after-market firmware based on Android Open Source Project, inspired by Google Pixel with a refined Material Design UI. We offer a smooth and stable experience for your device with a selected set of amazing features that provide an exceptional user experience. Our ROM is available for over 150+ Devices across 20+ OEMs. Generic System Images (GSI) are available so you can try out our ROM even if your device isn't currently supported. Our device roster keeps growing with support for more devices added every month.Starting Price: Free -
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macOS Tahoe
Apple
macOS Tahoe is the rumored name for Apple's upcoming macOS 26, expected to be announced at WWDC 2025. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the name "Tahoe" is inspired by California's Lake Tahoe, reflecting the region's natural beauty . This naming convention continues Apple's trend of using California landmarks for macOS versions, following names like Yosemite, Sierra, and Sequoia. The anticipated update is expected to bring a significant redesign to the macOS interface, possibly featuring more translucent windows and a glass-like aesthetic. This would mark the first major visual overhaul since macOS Big Sur in 2020. While specific features are not confirmed, the update is expected to enhance user experience and align with Apple's design philosophy. macOS Tahoe is expected to be released in the fall of 2025.Starting Price: Free -
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Stratodesk NoTouch
Stratodesk
Stratodesk NoTouch is the #1 Thin Client endpoint OS and management solution in the world. Comprised of both NoTouch OS and NoTouch Center, Stratodesk NoTouch lets you transform any PC, Thin Client, Laptop or Raspberry Pi device into a secure and centrally managed Thin Endpoint. You can also instantly deploy NoTouch OS onto thousands of devices and manage them from oStratodesk NoTouch is the #1 Thin Client endpoint OS and management solution in the world. Comprised of both NoTouch OS and NoTouch Center, Stratodesk NoTouch lets you transform any PC, Thin Client, Laptop or Raspberry Pi device into a secure and centrally managed Thin Endpoint. You can also instantly deploy NoTouch OS onto thousands of devices and manage them from one browser. NoTouch OS is the minimal footprint OS that installs from your server onto your PC, Laptop, Thin Client, or Raspberry Pi Device. NoTouch Center is the #1 endpoint management software for your VDI endpoints. -
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IBM i
IBM
IBM i is an integrated operating environment developed by IBM, consisting of operating system, database, middleware, and development tools. IBM I, a platform for innovators, by innovators. The latest update to IBM i has arrived. With IBM i 7.4, you'll get continuous availability (thanks to IBM Db2 Mirror for i), the latest security features, and easy integration with IoT, AI and Watson. Ensures mission-critical applications remain up and running. Enhanced security features implement the latest industry-standard practices. Protect critical business applications and data. New auditing capability at the object level. Industry-standard Open Source environments. Port more applications to IBM I. Easily integrate with IoT, AI and Watson. Get work done 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Transfer virtual save media to and from the cloud. Consolidate most commonly used tasks for managing IBM i. -
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openSUSE Leap
openSUSE
A brand new way of building openSUSE and a new type of a hybrid Linux distribution. Leap uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), which gives Leap a level of stability unmatched by other Linux distributions, and combines that with community developments to give users, developers and sysadmins the best stable Linux experience available. If you’re already running openSUSE you can upgrade by booting from the DVD/USB and choosing upgrade, or carry out an ‘Online Upgrade’ in a few commands. Leap is a classic stable distribution approach, one release each year and in between security and bugfixes. This makes Leap very attractive as server operating system, but as well for Desktops since it requires little maintenance effort. openSUSE Leap is compatible with SUSE Linux Enterprise; this gives Leap a level of stability unmatched by other Linux distributions and provides users the ability to migrate to an enterprise offering. -
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HP-UX
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Highly integrated UNIX operating system and tools that deliver the highest availability, reliability, and security on mission-critical HPE Integrity servers. Streamline your operations using a highly integrated UNIX operating system with tools that delivers the highest reliability, availability, and security on mission-critical HPE Integrity servers. HP-UX gives you a dynamic, secure, and unified environment and comes pre-integrated on mission-critical HPE Integrity servers. Meet your specific UNIX mission-critical requirements. HP-UX offers four operating environments tailored to specific needs. Holistic server security and system management that includes HPE Systems Insight Manager functionality with power management, health check, and deployment tools. It also provides full performance analysis tools for kernel processes and applications. Protect your business’s most critical applications and services to keep your business on target. -
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Xfce
Xfce
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly. In order to make Xfce shine a little more out of the box and to strengthen its visual identity we created new icons for all of our core applications and based them on a shared palette to ensure consistency. We also set some further (implicit) design constraints, loosely following Adwaita's principles. The Settings Manager itself received a visual refresh of its filter box, which can now be hidden permanently. At the same time the search capabilities of the filter box were improved by searching the descriptive 'Comments' part of each dialog's launcher (aka .desktop) file. This new dialog represents a merger between the previously available 'Mime Settings' and the 'Preferred Applications' dialogs. Consolidating both in one place means users have an easier time setting default applications to handle files. -
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Lubuntu
Lubuntu
Lubuntu is a fast and lightweight operating system with a clean and easy-to-use user interface. It is a Linux system, that uses the minimal desktop LXDE/LXQT, and a selection of light applications. Because of this, Lubuntu has very low hardware requirements. Lubuntu was founded by Mario Behling and has been grown for many years by Julien Lavergne. Please join us and install Lubuntu on your computer. The objective of the lubuntu project is to create a faster, more lightweight and energy saving variant of Ubuntu by using LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, as its default GUI. Members of the lubuntu team take care of LXDE and other packages that are part of the lubuntu installation. Contribute creating a lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient Linux Desktop. It is our goal to make Linux run on more cost-effective machines and MIDs besides Intel CPUs based on ARM and Mips. -
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Gentoo
Gentoo Foundation
Gentoo is a free operating system based on Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance, and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution, or something else, whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo a metadistribution. Of course, Gentoo is more than just software. It is also a community around the distribution. Gentoo benefits from around 250 developers and thousands of users, many of which are experts in their fields. The distribution project provides the means for the users to enjoy Gentoo: documentation, infrastructure, release engineering, software porting, quality assurance, security followup, hardening, and more. -
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Fedora CoreOS
Fedora Project
Fedora CoreOS is an automatically-updating, minimal operating system for running containerized workloads securely and at scale. It is currently available on multiple platforms, with more coming soon. There are three Fedora CoreOS (FCOS) update streams available: stable, testing, and next. In general, you will want to use stable, but it is recommended to run some machines on testing and next as well and provide feedback. For automating Fedora CoreOS installations, it is expected that you will interact with stream metadata. While Fedora CoreOS does automatic in-place updates, it is generally a good practice to start provisioning new machines from the latest images. Fedora CoreOS does not have a separate install disk. Instead, every instance starts from a generic disk image which is customized on first boot via Ignition. Everything included is open source and free software, not only is it available at no cost to you, but you can share, remix, and modify. -
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BlackArch Linux
BlackArch Linux
BlackArch Linux is an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. You can install tools individually or in groups. BlackArch Linux is compatible with existing Arch installs. The BlackArch Full ISO contains multiple window managers. The BlackArch Slim ISO features XFCE Desktop Enviroment. The full ISO contains a complete, functional BlackArch Linux system with all the available tools in the repo at build time. The slim ISO contains a functional BlackArch Linux system with a selected set of common/well-known tools and system utilities for pentesting. The netinstall ISO is a lightweight image for bootstrapping machines with a minimal set of packages. BlackArch Linux is compatible with existing/normal Arch installations. It acts as an unofficial user repository. You can install BlackArch Linux using the Slim medium which features GUI installer. -
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Tizen
Tizen
Tizen is an open and flexible operating system built from the ground up to address the needs of all stakeholders of the mobile and connected device ecosystem, including device manufacturers, mobile operators, application developers and independent software vendors (ISVs). Tizen is developed by a community of developers, under open source governance, and is open to all members who wish to participate. Tizen operating system comes in multiple profiles to serve different industry requirements. The current Tizen profiles are Tizen IVI (in-vehicle infotainment), Tizen Mobile, Tizen TV, and Tizen Wearable. In addition to that, as of Tizen 3.0, all profiles are built on top of a common, shared infrastructure called Tizen Common. With Tizen, a device manufacturer can begin with one of these profiles and modify it to serve their own needs, or use Tizen Common base to develop a new profile to meet the memory, processing and power requirements of any device and quickly bring it to market. -
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Junos OS
Juniper Networks
Junos® OS automates network operations with streamlined precision, furthers operational efficiency, and frees up valuable time and resources for top-line growth opportunities. Built for reliability, security, and flexibility, Junos OS runs many of the world’s most sophisticated network deployments, giving operators an advantage over those who run competing network operating systems. Reduces the time and effort required to plan, deploy, and operate network infrastructure. Extends traditional disaggregation by creating a flexible consumption model for network applications and provides a highly scalable software that keeps pace with evolving requirements. Makes the insertion of line cards and the subsequent network OS upgrade a non-service impacting event. Cloud providers understand that operating a flexible, cost-effective network requires simplified operations across a highly scalable infrastructure. -
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Mageia
Mageia
Mageia is a GNU/Linux-based, Free Software operating system. It is a community project, supported by a nonprofit organization of elected contributors. 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 is a Free Software operating system of the GNU/Linux family, which can be installed on computers either as the main operating system, or as an alternative system to one or several pre-installed systems (dual boot). It is a community project supported by the non-profit Mageia.Org organization of elected contributors. Mageia is developed by and for its community of users, and is suitable for all kinds of users, from first-time GNU/Linux users to advanced developers or system administrators. The software packages that are included in Mageia sit in three different repositories/media, depending on the type of license applied to each package. -
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Xubuntu
Xubuntu
Xubuntu is a community developed operating system that combines elegance and ease of use. Xubuntu is an elegant and easy to use operating system. Xubuntu comes with Xfce, which is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment. Xubuntu is perfect for those who want the most out of their desktops, laptops and netbooks with a modern look and enough features for efficient, daily usage. It works well on older hardware too. Xubuntu is built around lightweight software with a lot of consideration for usability. Whether you have a high-end computer or even a moderately older machine, Xubuntu is able to provide you with a smooth and usable desktop experience. Benefiting of the Ubuntu hardware support, Xubuntu is able to work wonderfully with a wide variety of devices out of the box. Plug in your device, chances are it will work! Xubuntu has enough applications preinstalled for you to deal with daily tasks without having to install additional software. -
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Scientific Linux
Scientific Linux
Scientific Linux is a Fermilab sponsored project. Our primary user base is within the High Energy and High Intensity Physics community. However, our users come from a wide variety of industries with various use cases all over the globe, and sometimes off of it! Scientific Linux is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (property of Red Hat Inc NYSE:RHT). We informally call them “The Upstream Vendor” or “TUV”. Our references to TUV are intended to make it clear that Scientific Linux is in no way affiliated, supported, or sanctioned by upstream. By not using their name we hope to make this distinction as clear as possible. Provides a stable, scalable, and extensible operating system for scientific computing. Supports scientific research by providing methods and procedures for enabling the integration of scientific applications with the operating environment. Use the free exchange of ideas, designs, and implementations to prepare a computing platform for the next generation of computing. -
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Kubuntu
Kubuntu
Quickly find that important document, photo, or video. Split View, Editable Location, a built-in Terminal and many other useful features. Dolphin makes connecting your USB flash drives, SD cards, and your phone super easy! Images are an important part of modern life. Kubuntu has applications that make it easy to browse, share, and enhance your photos. Open PDF, Dejavu, PS, DVI, and more, annotate documents and fill in forms and even read eBooks with Okular, the universal document viewer. untu comes built-in with a music and a movie player that are simple to use. Simply select a song or a movie and Kubuntu will take care of the rest. Kubuntu plays most music and video formats out the box; restricted formats such as MP3 are installed with two clicks when needed, usually during the installation process. -
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Solus
Solus
Solus is an operating system that is designed for home computing. Every tweak enables us to deliver a cohesive computing experience. Solus provides a multitude of experiences that enable you to get the most out of your hardware. From our flagship Budgie experience for modern devices to the more traditional MATE experience for lower-end devices, Solus aims to provide the best experience for your device. Solus ships with a variety of software out of the box so you can get going without a lot of setup fuss. Easily manage all your documents, music, photos, videos, and more with Files. We ship with Mozilla Firefox, a fast and secure web browser. Pop some popcorn and sit down to your favorite digital content via GNOME MPV. Play and manage your music and podcasts, as well as tune into online radio with Rhythmbox. No more hunting around for apps! Install and manage them right from our Software Center. -
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GhostBSD
GhostBSD
GhostBSD provides a simple desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD with MATE, OpenRC and OS packages for simplicity. GhostBSD has a selection of commonly used software preinstalled and required to start using it to its full potential. GhostBSD uses the GTK environment to provide a beautiful looks and a comfortable experience on the modern BSD platform offering a natural and native Unix work environment. GhostBSD is built on top of FreeBSD code, and its roots go back to the University of California Berkeley Unix Research. Historically it was referred to as "BSD Unix" or "Berkeley Unix." However, today it is called BSD for Berkeley Software Distribution. The project goal is to combine security, privacy, stability, usability, openness, freedom and to be available for everybody free of charge. The user experience is further enhanced by tools like the Networkmgr which are developed as part of the GhostBSD project. -
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Oracle Linux
Oracle
An open and complete operating environment, Oracle Linux delivers virtualization, management, and cloud native computing tools, along with the operating system, in a single support offering. Oracle Linux is 100% application binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Search the catalog to find information about independent software vendors (ISVs) who have certified their applications to run on Oracle Linux and Virtualization. Applications certified on Oracle Linux run wherever Linux runs—on-premises, in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and in other clouds. Join us in this Oracle Tux Tech Talk webinar on July 28 and learn how to benchmark for performance, discover the benefits of the UEK, and understand which workloads see improvement from UEK. -
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Raspberry Pi OS
Raspberry Pi Foundation
Raspberry Pi Imager is the quick and easy way to install Raspberry Pi OS and other operating systems to a microSD card, ready to use with your Raspberry Pi. Watch our 45-second video to learn how to install an operating system using Raspberry Pi Imager. Download and install Raspberry Pi Imager to a computer with an SD card reader. Put the SD card you'll use with your Raspberry Pi into the reader and run Raspberry Pi Imager. Browse a range of operating systems provided by Raspberry Pi and by other organisations, and download them to install manually. -
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HPE OpenVMS
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
With HPE OpenVMS, get a platform that is proven to deliver. OpenVMS is a general-purpose, multi-user Operating system that offers immunity to both planned and unplanned downtime with proven continuous computing, including disaster-tolerant, multisite clusters at an open system price. While most enterprise IT environments measure uptime in days or weeks, OpenVMS customers characterize uptime in terms of years. You can depend on OpenVMS for uncompromising reliability, availability, scalability, and security. HPE provides a high performance development and production environment on OpenVMS. HPE OpenVMS Cluster software is an integral part of the OpenVMS operating system, providing the basis for many of the key capabilities used by OpenVMS enterprise solutions. HPE OpenVMS provides a full range of security products and services from HPE and our partners designed to protect a company's vital assets. -
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LXLE
LXLE
Light on resources, Heavy on functions. Always based on Ubuntu/Lubuntu LTS. LXLE ses an optimized LXDE user interface, it is a simple, elegant and familiar desktop UI. Prudent full featured Apps preinstalled. Latest stable versions of all major apps. Added PPAs extends available software. Expose, Aero Snap, Quick Launch apps, etc. Random and interval wallpaper changer, and theme consistency throughout the system. 100 gorgeous wallpapers preinstalled, and numerous other tweaks/additions available. Both 32 and 64 bit OS versions available. Boot and it's online and ready in less than 1 minute. LXLE is based on Lubuntu which is an Ubuntu OS using the LXDE desktop environment. It is designed to be a drop-in and go OS, primarily for aging computers. Its intention is to be able to install it on any computer and be relatively done after install. At times removing unwanted programs or features is easier than configuring for a day. -
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Neptune OS
Neptune
Neptune is a GNU/Linux Distribution for desktops based fully upon Debian Stable ('Buster'), except for a newer kernel and some drivers. It ships with a modern KDE Plasma Desktop with its main view on a good looking multimedia system which allows for getting work done. It also is a system which is flexible and very useful on usb sticks. Therefore we developed easy to use applications like USB Installer as well as a Persistent Creator that allows you to store changes to your system on your live usb stick. The Debian repository is the major base for getting updates and new software. Furthermore Neptune ships with its own software repository to update our own applications. Neptune tries to get the BeOS message of a fully supported multimedia OS to a next generation of users. Neptunes focuses on providing an elegant out of the box experience for the users. Therefore we ship a nice and simple overall look and feel as well as a whole bunch of multimedia tools, like codecs, flash player, etc. -
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SUSE Linux Micro
SUSE
SUSE Linux Micro is a lightweight, container-optimized Linux operating system designed for edge computing and microservices environments. It offers a small footprint with security and performance optimized for deploying containerized applications. The platform enables fast, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud-native development, especially in resource-constrained environments. With built-in automation tools and compatibility with Kubernetes, SUSE Linux Micro supports seamless integration into modern containerized infrastructures. It is ideal for developers and IT operations teams who need to deploy and manage applications across distributed environments efficiently. -
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BackBox Linux
BackBox
BackBox is more than an operating system, it is a Free Open Source Community Project with the aim of promoting the culture of security in IT environment and give its contribution to make it better and safer. All this using exclusively Free Open Source Software, demonstrating the potential and power of the Community. If you’d like to know more feel free to navigate in our web site and get in touch with us. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories that are constantly updated to the latest stable version of the most popular and best known ethical hacking tools. BackBox.org offers a range of Penetration Testing services to simulate an attack on your network or application. If you are interested in our services, please contact us and we will provide you with further information as well as an initial consultation. -
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PureOS
PureOS
A user friendly, secure and freedom respecting OS for your daily usage. With PureOS, you are the only one in control of your digital life. We've created a new, more stable version of PureOS, with the same great privacy protecting features and software but with a more solid foundation. Greater stability through following a stable upstream. New security and update software channels. New tooling for managing older versions of TPM chips. Changes to make the Librem Key work out of the box. Lots of bug fixes and the healing of paper cuts. Whether you are a technology enthusiast, someone looking to protect the digital life of your family, or an enterprise IT/security department, you can use PureOS freely for any purpose, study and share its source code, and adapt it to your needs. PureOS is a fully auditable operating system, you don’t have to trust our word that it respects and protects you, it is independently verifiable by security experts and software developers around the world. -
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Slackel
Slackel
Slackel is a Linux distribution based on Slackware and Salix. It is fully compatible with Slackware but the difference is that it includes the current version of Slackware. So Slackware users can benefit from Slackel repositories. It is available in three editions, KDE, Openbox and MATE. Slackel disc images can be used in two different forms, Installation disc image and Live disc image. Slackel provides one application per task rationale. It is fully backwards compatible with Slackware. Optimized for desktop usage, with Salix and Slackel tools to assist system management, high quality package repositories with dependency support. It includes a fully configured desktop environment with a complete selection of applications to fit the needs of most people, including office related software, multimedia applications, Internet applications, all the Slackel system configuration tools and more. -
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Wind River Linux
Wind River Systems
Wind River Linux enables you to build and deploy secure Linux-based devices and systems without the risk and development efforts associated with roll-your-own (RYO) in-house efforts. Let Wind River keep your code base up to date, track and fix defects, apply security patches, customize your runtime to adhere to strict market specifications and certifications, facilitate your IP and export compliance, and significantly reduce your costs. Accelerate time-to-market by getting started today, building your Linux distribution with freely available Yocto Project source code, with assurance that you can easily move to one of our flexible subscription offers later. Rely on fully validated, maintained, and supported source code with access to a team of Linux experts to help you tackle all your development lifecycle needs. Calculate your TCO. Wind River Linux allows you to build your own Linux operating system with a variety of service options to help you with that process.