Hintlink - Open Source Operating Systems

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
v14.4	v??!	v12	v24.04 LTS	v13.4
2026-03-15	2017-01-14	2017-01-14	2026-03-15	2026-03-15

Fedora Linux	Gentoo Linux	Arch Linux	Slackware Linux	CentOS Linux (Enterprise Server)
v43	v2026.02.15	v2026.03.01	v15	v6.8
2026-03-15	2026-03-15	2026-03-15	2026-03-15	2017-01-14

LinuxMint
v22.3
2026-03-15

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

LinuxMint (UNIX) is perhaps the cleanest to install and provided with the best additional packages.
More robust is the Debian-based version, LMDE.
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
v50	v6.6 Plasma	v1.28	v6.6	v4.20	v43
2026-03-21	2026-03-21	2026-03-15	2026-03-21	2026-03-15	2026-03-15

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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