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Open Source Operating Systems & GUIs

Operating Systems - PC platform

ReactOS - Windows Open Source clone!

Some flavours of Linux/UNIX


FreeBSD UNIX	Red Hat Linux	SuSE Linux	Ubuntu Linux	Debian Linux
v11.2	v??!	v12	v16.04 LTS	v2012-01-25
2018-07-27	2017-01-14	2017-01-14	2017-01-14	2017-01-14

Fedora Linux	Gentoo Linux	Arch Linux	Slackware Linux	CentOS Linux (Enterprise Server)
v24	v2016.06.23	v2016.06.01	v14.1	v6.8
2017-01-14	2017-01-14	2017-01-14	2017-01-14	2017-01-14

LinuxMint
v20.2 Uma
2021-10-17

Distros
For a full summary (and confuse yourself with choice), check
Wikipedia
DistroWatch

LinuxMint (UNIX) is the cleanest to install and provided with the best additional packages.
Install with the Cinnamon GUI, Firefox/Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Filezilla plus others. Instructions.

			GUIs - Linux platform

GNOME GUI	KDE GUI	MATE GUI	Cinnamon GUI	Xfce	LXDE - Lightweight X11
v3.16/3.18	v5 Plasma	v1.14	v3.0	v4.12	v0.99.1
2017-01-14	2017-01-14	2017-01-14	2017-01-14	2017-01-14	2017-01-14

More useful stuff on UNIX, etc.
Linux.org
Linux on Notebooks

Embedded platforms - under construction
Embedded Linux on new devices

Mobile platforms - under construction
Phones
Android
openmoko

Building a Linux system the easy way – or you can ask us to do it for you.

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