Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Windows 8 Alternatives
Windows 8 has been discontinued. Similar apps include Windows 10. It's paid, but Raspberry Pi OS and CentOS are free. Other options are OpenMandriva Lx, Univention Corporate Server (UCS), GhostBSD and KaOS. There's no shortage of Operating Systems like Windows 8, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, self-hosting, Mac, Windows and the web.
Alternatives list
167 BeeFree OS alternativesBeeFree OS is inspired from Ubuntu, Windows 7 and Linux Mint. The name is acronym for Beautiful, Effective, Efficient and Freedom.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
+3
115 MirOS alternativesMirOS BSD is a secure operating system from the BSD family for 32-bit i386 and sparc systems. It is based on 4.4BSD-Lite (mostly OpenBSD, some NetBSD®).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- BSD
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
United States
+9
45 Trusted End Node Security alternativesLive bootable linux CD supported by US department of defense, featuring firefox, thunderbird, word processor, and reads USB flash drives.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
109 Musix alternativesMusix, a GNU+Linux distribution based on Knoppix, with special emphasis on audio production.
Platforms
- Linux
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
149 Minoca OS alternativesMinoca OS is a general purpose operating system designed specifically for feature-rich embedded devices. It's got all the high-level functionality that you've come to expect from an operating system, but offers it in a fraction of the memory footprint.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
Canada
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106 BLAG Linux and GNU alternativesBLAG is a single-cd distro with everything desktop users "expect" from a desktop, plus a collection of nice server apps.
Platforms
- Linux
United Kingdom
151 Superb Mini Server alternativesSuperb 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
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- BSD
Karoshi provides a simple graphical interface that allows for quick installation, setup and maintenance of a network.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
