Raspberry Pi OS Alternatives

Raspberry Pi OS is described as '(previously called Raspbian) is the Foundation’s official supported operating system. You can install it with NOOBS or download the image below and follow our installation guide' and is a very popular Linux Distro in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Raspberry Pi OS for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, Windows, BSD and Mac apps. The best Raspberry Pi OS alternative is Ubuntu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Raspberry Pi OS are Fedora, Arch Linux, Manjaro Linux and openSUSE.

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  1. Titan Linux  icon
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    Titan Linux is an all new distro built on the Debian Stable branch. It's a fully functional yet minimal KDE Plasma desktop experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
     
  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. eComStation icon
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    eComStation is an operating system based on IBM OS/2 that runs on current hardware.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Springdale Linux (SDL) / Formerly known as PUIAS Linux is a RHEL-based Distribution and Mirror. A project of members of the computing staff of ?Princeton University and the ?Institute for Advanced...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. miniBSD icon
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    miniBSD is a project to develop a set of scripts that shrinks a running FreeBSD system to a small sized miniBSD distribution suited for small media like USB pens and CF cards.

    135 miniBSD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • BSD
     
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Gnoppix icon
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    MicroPythonOS is a lightweight, fast, and versatile operating system designed to run on microcontrollers like the ESP32 and desktop systems. With a modern Android-like touch screen UI, App Store, and Over-The-Air updates, it’s the perfect OS for innovators and developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Python
    • Mac
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  10. Astral OS icon
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    Astral is a 64 bit operating system with its own kernel written in C for the x86-64 architecture.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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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
     
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