#os
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AlmaLinux OS
AlmaLinux OS is an open source, community-owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution, focused on long-term stability, providing a robust production-grade platform. AlmaLinux OS is binary-compatible with RHEL is owned and controlled by the non-profit AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and managed by a community-elected board of directors and the self-managed AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee.
Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.
Amazon Linux
Amazon Linux][al2] is a Linux server operating system from Amazon Web Services (AWS) available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ([Amazon EC2). It is also available as a Docker container image and as a virtual machine image for use on Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Oracle VM VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware ESXi.
Android OS
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
antiX Linux
antiX Linux is a lightweight desktop-oriented systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian's stable branch releases. AntiX Linux uses the lightweight "antiX Magic" IceWM-based desktop which allows for antiX to run smoothly on old and new hardware.
Apple iOS
iOS is a mobile operating system created by Apple, and used in the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone. It is the world's second-most widely installed operating system, after Android.
Apple iPadOS
iPadOS is a mobile operating system created by Apple for its iPad line of devices. It is a rebranded variant of iOS, and introduced in 2019 as iPadOS 13.
Apple macOS
macOS (aka OS X, Mac OS X) is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers.
Apple tvOS
tvOS (formerly Apple TV Software) is an operating system developed by Apple Inc. for the Apple TV, a digital media player. In the first-generation Apple TV, Apple TV Software was based on Mac OS X. Starting with the second generation, the software is based on the iOS operating system and has many similar frameworks, technologies, and concepts.
Apple visionOS
Apple visionOS is an operating system specifically designed for Apple's spatial computing device, the Apple Vision Pro. It integrates elements from iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, enabling users to interact with digital content in a mixed reality environment. VisionOS supports new interaction paradigms such as eye-tracking, gesture control, and voice input.
Apple watchOS
watchOS is Apple's mobile operating system for its Apple Watches. It is based on iOS, and introduced in 2015.
BIG-IP
BIG-IP is a family of hardware and software products from F5 Networks, designed for load balancing, traffic management, and application security.
CentOS
CentOS Linux was a Linux distribution that provided a free, enterprise-class, community-supported computing platform functionally compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS Linux has been discontinued and is not safe to use anymore. Read the information on upgrade and migration options.
CentOS Stream
CentOS Stream is a continuously delivered Linux distribution that tracks just ahead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development, positioned as a midstream between Fedora Linux and RHEL.
Debian
Debian is a free operating system for your computer. The Debian stable branch is the most popular edition for personal computers and network servers, and is used as the basis for many other Linux distributions.
EuroLinux
EuroLinux was a Polish Enterprise Linux distribution that maintained compatibility with RHEL and CentOS. The EuroLinux distribution reached End-Of-Life in October 2024. The EuroLinux team advises and supports migration to Rocky Linux.
Fedora Linux
Fedora is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat.
FortiOS
[FortiOS][fortios] is Fortinet's operating system used in their hardware, such as the FortiGate firewall and switches. It is based on Linux.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. Upcoming Change Starting with FreeBSD 15.x each major version's stable branch will be supported for 4 years, instead of the current 5. 13.5 and 14.6 will be supported until 5 years after 13.0 and 14.0 respectively. The support duration for individual point releases will remain until "next point release + 3 months" A release cadence is being established so a new minor release from one of the supported stable branches will happen most quarters.
Google Container-Optimized OS (COS)
Google Container-Optimized OS (COS) is an operating system image for GCP Compute Engine VMs which is optimized for running Docker containers. It is maintained by Google and is based on the open source Chromium OS project. Any Image Family API
IBM AIX
IBM AIX is a Unix-based operating system created by IBM, used mainly in mainframes and working on POWER-based architectures.
IBM iSeries
IBM i is a fully integrated operating system, meaning the database, middleware, security, runtime and hypervisor are integrated into the stack and licensed as one solution. It was originally released in 1988 as OS/400, as the sole operating system of the IBM AS/400 line of systems. It was renamed to i5/OS in 2004, before being renamed a second time to IBM i in 2008.
KDE Plasma
KDE Plasma is a graphical desktop environment with customizable layouts and panels, supporting virtual desktops and widgets. It is available on most Linux distributions and FreeBSD.
Linux Kernel
The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel. Linux is deployed on a wide variety of computing systems, such as embedded devices, mobile devices (including Android), personal computers, servers, mainframes, and supercomputers.
Linux Mint
Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution for desktop and laptop computers based on Debian and Ubuntu, bundled with a variety of free and open-source applications. It has an Ubuntu-based release simply named Linux Mint, and a Debian-based release called LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
Mageia
Mageia is a GNU/Linux-based, Free Software operating system. It is a community project, supported by a nonprofit organisation of elected contributors.
Microsoft Nano Server
Nano Server is a minimal installation option of Windows Server offering a smaller disc footprint with a smaller attack surface. It was initially intended as even smaller installation option compared to Windows Server Core. Starting with 1709 it was removed as installation option and going forward is only offered as Windows container base image.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is the operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation to run on personal computers.
Microsoft Windows Embedded
Windows Embedded, now called Windows IoT, is a family of operating systems from Microsoft designed for use in embedded systems. Windows Embedded operating systems are available to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), who make it available to end users preloaded with their hardware.
Microsoft Windows Server
Windows Server (formerly Windows NT Server) is a group of operating systems (OS) for servers by Microsoft. The brand name was changed to Windows Server in 2003.
Microsoft Windows Server Core
Windows Server Core is a minimal installation option of Windows Server offering a smaller disc footprint with a smaller attack surface. It's also offered as Windows container base image starting with 2016 (1607).
MX Linux
MX Linux is a desktop-oriented GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian's stable branch releases. MX Linux uses the XFCE by default and aims for "an elegant and efficient desktop with simple configuration, high stability, solid performance and medium-sized footprint."
NetBSD
NetBSD is a free, fast, secure and extremely portable UNIX-like operating system.
NixOS
NixOS is a Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager. It uses declarative configuration and allows reliable system upgrades.
Nutanix AOS
Nutanix AOS is an operating system that provides the core functionality leveraged by workloads and services running on the Nutanix platform.
OpenBSD
The OpenBSD project produces a free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography are emphasized.
openSUSE
openSUSE is a linux distribution developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and aimed at sysadmins, developers and desktop users.
OpenWrt
OpenWrt is a highly extensible GNU/Linux distribution for embedded devices (typically wireless routers).
Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux is an Open Source, free RHEL derivative developed by Oracle to be 100% application binary compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Oracle Solaris
Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. After the Sun acquisition by Oracle in 2010, it was renamed Oracle Solaris. It supports SPARC and x86-64 workstations and servers. It is known for its stability, performance, scalability and innovative features such as DTrace or ZFS.
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS is the software that runs all Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls. These firewalls are deployed as physical appliances, virtual machines, containers, and cloud services.
postmarketOS
postmarketOS extends Alpine Linux to run on smartphones and other mobile devices.
Proxmox VE
Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) is an open-source software server for virtualization management. It is a hosted hypervisor that can run operating systems including Linux and Windows on x64 hardware.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market.
Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux is a Linux distribution that is intended to be a downstream, complete binary-compatible release using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system source code. The project is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project.
ROS
ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications.
ROS 2
ROS 2 (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robotic applications. ROS 2 is a major revision of ROS 1, which adds support for real-time code and embedded system hardware. As ROS 1 will no longer be supported past May 2025, it is highly recommended for new projects to start using ROS 2.
Slackware Linux
Slackware is a general-purpose GNU/Linux distribution that aims to be most "UNIX-like", simple and stable. It strives to minimize the number of changes to upstream software releases. It is the oldest actively developed GNU/Linux distribution with development being led by creator Patrick Volkerding continuously since 1993.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Suse Linux Enterprise Server is a modular linux distribution for both multimodal and traditional IT.
Tails
Tails, or _The Amnesic Incognito Live System_, is a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on Debian. Ubuntu is officially released in three editions: Desktop, Server, and Core (for IoT devices and robots).
VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto your physical server.
VMware Photon
VMWare Photon OS is an open source Linux container host optimized for cloud-native applications, cloud platforms, and VMware infrastructure.
XCP-ng
XCP-ng is a free and open-source hypervisor based on Xen. It is a fork of XenServer, which was acquired by Citrix in 2013. It is a drop-in replacement for XenServer, and can be used to manage and run virtual machines on any hardware that supports the Xen hypervisor. XCP-ng is developed by a community of contributors and is available for free.
Yocto Project
The Yocto Project is a Linux Foundation project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems and distributions regardless of the hardware architecture.
Zentyal
Zentyal is an easy Linux alternative to Windows Server offering native interoperability with Microsoft Active Directory.