Node OS is described as 'NodeOS is a lightweight operating system using Node.js as userspace and managed by npm. Any package in npm is a NodeOS package, which at last count was 244,180 packages. The goal of NodeOS is to provide just enough to let npm provide the rest' and is a Linux Distro in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Node OS for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, BSD, Mac and Windows apps. The best Node OS alternative is Lubuntu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Node OS are CentOS, Raspberry Pi OS, Chrome OS and GhostBSD.