GNUstep's core framework provides open source version of the Cocoa's (formerly known as OpenStep from NeXT) APIs and tools for as many platforms as possible.

Phosh is described as 'Pure Wayland shell for GNOME on mobile devices like the Purism Librem 5' and is a desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Phosh for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Linux Mobile, Windows and Mac apps. The best Phosh alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Phosh are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and Ubuntu Touch.
GNUstep's core framework provides open source version of the Cocoa's (formerly known as OpenStep from NeXT) APIs and tools for as many platforms as possible.

The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now available as open-source software for the first time.




Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems


Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.
UKUI is a lightweight desktop environment based on pluggable framework for Linux and other Unix-like Distributions. It is developed using GTK and Qt.




Fork of Enlightenment version 17 (commonly called E17) used as the main desktop environment on Bodhi Linux
Qt6/QML Wayland compositor on PostmarketOS. Runs on any device with mainline Linux support or Libhybris. Core features work at 60 FPS on OnePlus 6. Performance target: fluid on decade-old chipsets, exceptional on newer hardware.



