GNU Guix Alternatives

GNU Guix is described as 'A purely functional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users' and is a Linux Distro in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to GNU Guix for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted, BSD and Windows apps. The best GNU Guix alternative is Linux Mint, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNU Guix are Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Arch Linux.

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    Qimo 4 Kids is a child-friendly desktop environment built entirely with free software. Qimo comes pre-installed with educational games for kids and themed with large colorful icons to help young users navigate easily.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
     
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    Gnoppix is the world 1st. AI open source operating system based on Linux with focus on user security and privacy-respecting alternative to Windows and macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    Infinitive OS is an open-source project created to replace windows and macOS, it mounts the latest versions of the Linux kernel and contains open source components but also proprietary software. It has the KDE desktop environment pre-installed

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
     
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    To bring out the virtues of Gentoo on different operating systems, the Gentoo Prefix project develops and maintains a way of installing Gentoo systems in a non-standard location, designated by a "prefix".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    Hannah Montana Linux is a unix-like Linux Operating System based on Kubuntu. The Package Manager is Debian apt. The GUI is KDE 4.2 with Hannah Montana themes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
     
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    A simple replacement for homebrew for installing binary packages on macOS written in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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    Performance optimized default Gentoo install.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    HP-UX is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V (initially System III) and first released in 1984. Recent versions support the HP 9000 series of computer systems, based on the PA-RISC instruction set...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Tvix is a new implementation of Nix, a purely-functional package manager. It aims to have a modular implementation, in which different components can be reused or replaced based on the use-case.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    ObsidianOS is an Arch-based Linux distro with an A/B partition style so if a package has a breaking change that causes some issues, you can just reboot into the other partition and restore the other one, while relying on the robustness of EXT4.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
     
  11. IBM AIX icon
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    AIX is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms. Originally released for the IBM RT PC RISC workstation, AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS/6000 series...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Download Zen Installer for free. A Graphical Installer for Arch Linux. The Zen Installer provides a full graphical (point and click) environment for installing Arch Linux. It provides support for installing multiple desktop environments, AUR support, and all of the power and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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