Products tagged with '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, and is owned and controlled by the non-profit AlmaLinux OS Foundation, managed by a community-elected board of directors.
Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.
Amazon Linux 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 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.
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.
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.
macOS (aka OS X, Mac OS X) is the primary operating system for Apple’s Mac computers.
watchOS is Apple’s mobile operating system for its Apple Watches. It is based on iOS, and introduced in 2015.
CentOS Linux is a Linux distribution that provides a free, enterprise-class, community-supported computing platform functionally compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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 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.
Devuan GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd to support Init Freedom.
EuroLinux is a Polish Enterprise Linux distribution that has been in development since 2013. EuroLinux guarantees its compatibility with RHEL and CentOS. It is available in two versions: paid and free, with the paid version providing additional technical support cover.
Fedora is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat.
FortiOS is Fortinet’s operating system used in their hardware, such as the FortiGate firewall and switches. It is based on Linux.
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.
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.
IBM AIX is a Unix-based operating system created by IBM, used mainly in mainframes and working on POWER-based architectures.
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 is a graphical desktop environment with customizable layouts and panels, supporting virtual desktops and widgets. It is available on most Linux distributions and FreeBSD.
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 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 is a GNU/Linux-based, Free Software operating system. It is a community project, supported by a nonprofit organisation of elected contributors.
Microsoft Windows is the operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation to run on personal computers.
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.
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.
NetBSD is a free, fast, secure and extremely portable UNIX-like operating system.
NixOS is a Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager. It uses declarative configuration and allows reliable system upgrades.
Nutanix AOS is an operating system that provides the core functionality leveraged by workloads and services running on the Nutanix platform.
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.
OpenWrt is a highly extensible GNU/Linux distribution for embedded devices (typically wireless routers).
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 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 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.
Pop!_OS is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.
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.
ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications.
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.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market.
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.
Suse Linux Enterprise Server is a modular linux distribution for both multimodal and traditional IT.
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.
SteamOS is a Linux distribution developed by Valve.
Tails, or The Amnesic Incognito Live System, is a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity.
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 is a bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto your physical server.
VMWare Photon OS is an open source Linux container host optimized for cloud-native applications, cloud platforms, and VMware infrastructure.
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.
The Yocto Project is a Linux Foundation project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems and distributions regardless of the hardware architecture.
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.
openSUSE is a linux distribution developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and aimed at sysadmins, developers and desktop users.
postmarketOS extends Alpine Linux to run on smartphones and other mobile devices.