Haiku Alternatives

Haiku is described as 'Open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful' and is a very popular operating system in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Haiku for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, BSD, Windows and Mac apps. The best Haiku alternative is Linux Mint, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Haiku are Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Arch Linux.

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  1. Mezzano icon
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    An operating system written in Common Lisp. Contribute to froggey/Mezzano development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. PureDarwin icon
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    Darwin is the Open Source operating system from Apple that forms the basis for Mac OS X, and PureDarwin is a community project to make Darwin more usable (some people think of it as the informal successor to OpenDarwin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Frugalware icon
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    Frugalware Linux is an independently developed general purpose desktop Linux distribution designed for intermediate users. It follows simple Slackware -like design concepts and includes the .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Visopsys icon
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    Visopsys (VISual OPerating SYStem) is an alternative operating system for PC-compatible computers, written “from scratch”, and developed primarily by a single hobbyist programmer since 1997.

    156 Visopsys alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Friend icon
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    The Friend Unifying Platform is a powerful open source framework that will allow developers to decouple their applications from technology silos. It will empower developers to swiftly deploy on and integrate with Ethereum and other decentralised technologies in a new blockchain...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  6. ToaruOS icon
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    ToaruOS is a completely-from-scratch hobby operating system: bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library, and user space including a composited graphical UI, dynamic linker, syntax-highlighting text editor, network stack, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. GNU-Darwin icon
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    GNU-Darwin aims to be the most free software distribution. Our mission is two-fold: Focus on projects that leverage our unique combination of Darwin and GNU, and help users to enjoy the benefits of software freedom.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. ArcaOS icon
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    A new OS/2-based operating system from Arca Noae, codenamed Blue Lion, arrived today, May 15, 2017, after nearly two years in development.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • HP webOS
    • AROS
     
  9. Superb Mini Server (SMS) is a Slackware-based server distribution with web, DNS, DHCP, file, print and fax servers, iptables firewall, mail server with spam filter and anti-virus scanner, and BitTorrent station.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Ubuntu Cloud icon
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    Ubuntu Cloud is an open source Linux operating system designed to be used as a personal cloud server. It is based on the well known Ubuntu Linux distribution and recognized as an official Ubuntu flavor, distributed by Canonical.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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