Fedora creates an innovative, free, and open source platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enables software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users.
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Porteus AlternativesLinux Distros & Operating Systems like Porteus
Porteus is described as 'Complete linux operating system that is optimized to run from CD, USB flash drive, hard drive, or other bootable storage media. It's small (under 300Mb) and insanely fast which allows you to start up and get online while most other operating systems are left' and is a Linux Distro in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Porteus for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, Windows, Mac and Chrome OS apps. The best Porteus alternative is Fedora, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Porteus are Arch Linux, Haiku, Puppy Linux and Alpine Linux.
Alternatives list
- 182 Fedora alternatives
200 Arch Linux alternativesArch Linux is an independently developed, x86_64 optimized GNU/Linux distribution targeted at competent Linux users. It uses pacman, its home-grown package manager, to provide updates to the latest software applications with full dependency tracking.
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Comments about Arch Linux as an Alternative to Porteus
- Arch Linux is Free and Open Source
- Arch Linux is Customizable, Minimalistic and Privacy focused
224 Haiku alternativesHaiku is an 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.
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193 Puppy Linux alternativesPuppy Linux is a unique family of Linux distributions meant for the home-user computers. It was originally created by Barry Kauler in 2003.
Comments about Puppy Linux as an Alternative to Porteus
Porteus is best known for the KIOSK software... puppy isn't kiosk.
Puppy is a wide open, run as root system.
- Puppy Linux is Free and Open Source
87 Alpine Linux alternativesAlpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.
192 Chrome OS alternativesGoogle Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system designed by Google that uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface, so it works primarily with web applications.
120 FydeOS alternativesFydeOS offers a choice for regular PCs to behave like Chromebooks with alternative supporting services, on-premise or in the cloud, with or without Google. Formerly known as "Flint OS".
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- Chrome OS
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The Temple Operating System (TempleOS) is a free and open source, x86_64, non-preemptive, multi-tasking PC operating system.
SliTaz is a free operating system, working completely in RAM and booting from removable media such as a CD-ROM or USB key. SliTaz is distributed as a LiveCD, and weighs less than 40MB. The system is quick and responsive, clean and robust.
Comments about SliTaz as an Alternative to Porteus
Although not quite as up to date, SliTaz is a very good, very fast, and genuinely lightweight OS.
- SliTaz is Free and Open Source
- SliTaz is Customizable
MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language. Menuet64 is released under proprietary license and Menuet32 under GPL. Menuet supports 32/64 bit x86 assembly programming for smaller, faster and less resource hungry...
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80 KolibriOS alternativesKolibriOS is a tiny yet incredibly powerful and fast operating system. This power requires only a few megabyte disk space and 8MB of RAM to run. Kolibri features a rich set of applications that include word processor, image viewer, graphical editor, web browser and well over 30...
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Porteus can be downloaded, installed to a usb pendrive, booted live, installed to a hard drive and fully configured in the time it would take to boot Arch Linux, which would then take a week to configure before it inevitably broke.