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==Non-proprietary== ===Unix or Unix-like=== * [[MINIX]] (study OS developed by [[Andrew S. Tanenbaum]] in the [[Netherlands]]) * [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] (BSD), a variant of Unix originally for [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[PDP-11]] and [[VAX]] hardware) ** [[FreeBSD]] (one of the outgrowths of UC Regents' abandonment of [[CSRG]]'s 'BSD Unix') *** [[DragonFlyBSD]], forked from FreeBSD 4.8 *** [[MidnightBSD]], forked from FreeBSD 6.1 *** [[GhostBSD]] *** [[TrueOS]] (previously known as PC-BSD), made for desktop/laptop usage, now discontinued *** [https://nomadbsd.org/ NomadBSD], a project aiming to tend FreeBSD to desktop/laptop needs ** [[NetBSD]] (an embedded device BSD variant) *** [[OpenBSD]] forked from NetBSD **** [[Bitrig]] forked from OpenBSD, discontinued **** FuguIta,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome - FuguIta |url=https://fuguita.org/ |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=fuguita.org}}</ref> a live OpenBSD fork by a Japanese developer<ref>{{Cite web |title=DistroWatch.com: FuguIta |url=https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fuguita |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=distrowatch.com}}</ref> ** [[Darwin (operating system)|Darwin]], created by Apple using code from NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD, and NetBSD * [[GNU]] (also known as GNU/[[GNU Hurd|Hurd]]) * [[Linux]] (see also [[List of Linux distributions]]) (alleged to be GNU/Linux<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.en.html|title=gnu.org|website=www.gnu.org|language=en|access-date=2018-08-24}}</ref> see [[GNU/Linux naming controversy]]) ** [[Android (operating system)|Android]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2012/12/video-what-a-year-for-linux/|title=Video: What a Year for Linux|website=[[The Linux Foundation]]|date=2012-12-13|access-date=2020-06-30}}</ref> *** [[Android-x86]] **** [[Remix OS]] *** [[EulerOS]] - Linux commercial distribution for cloud based software by [[Huawei]] ****[[EulerOS|openEuler]] - open-source community version of EulerOS ****[[EulerOS|NestOS]] - open-source cloud based operating system based on EulerOS, contributed by openEuler community * [[Redox (operating system)|Redox]] (written in Rust)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redox-os.org/|title=Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS|website=www.redox-os.org}}</ref> * [[OpenSolaris]] ** [[illumos]], contains original Unix (SVR4) code derived from the [[OpenSolaris]] (discontinued by Oracle in favor of [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]] 11 Express) *** [[OpenIndiana]], operates under the illumos Foundation. Uses the illumos kernel, which is a derivative of [[OS/Net]], which is basically an [[OpenSolaris]]/[[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]] kernel with the bulk of the drivers, core libraries, and basic utilities. *** [[Nexenta OS]], based on the illumos kernel with Ubuntu packages *** [[SmartOS]], an illumos distribution for cloud computing with [[Kernel-based Virtual Machine]] integration. * [[RTEMS]] (Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems) * [[Syllable Desktop]] * [[VSTa]] * [[Plurix]] (or Tropix<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tropix.nce.ufrj.br/|title=TROPIX: Distribuição e Instalação|website=www.tropix.nce.ufrj.br|access-date=2018-08-24}}</ref>) (by [[Federal University of Rio de Janeiro]] – UFRJ) * [[TUNIS]] (University of Toronto) *[[Xv6]] - a simple Unix-like teaching operating system from MIT *[[SerenityOS]] - aims to be a modern Unix-like operating system, yet with a look and feel that emulates 1990s operating systems such as [[Microsoft Windows]] and the [[classic Mac OS]]. ===Non-Unix=== * [[Cosmos (operating system)|Cosmos]] – written in C# * [[EmuTOS]] - open source [[Atari TOS]] variant * [[FreeDOS]] – open source [[MS-DOS]] variant * [[Genode]] – operating system framework for microkernels (written in C++) * [[Fuchsia (operating system)|Google Fuchsia]] * [[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]] – open source inspired by [[BeOS]], in development * [[Incompatible Timesharing System]] (ITS) – written in the MIDAS [[macro assembler]] language for the [[PDP-6]] and [[PDP-10]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/ai/aim/AIM-161A.pdf|title=ITS 1.5 Reference Manual|page=6|date=July 1969}}</ref> by [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] students * [[LiteOS]] * [[MagiC]] - open source [[Atari TOS]] variant * [[OpenHarmony]] - LiteOS kernel and kernel add-ons side of the kernel tree under Kernel Abstract Layer (KAL) structure * [[OpenHarmony|Uniproton]] real-time operating system for ultra-low latency and adaptable mixed-critical deployment capabilities contributed by [[EulerOS|openEuler]] community and also part of OpenHarmony add-on kernel * [[OS/2#Future|osFree]] – OS/2 Warp open source clone * [[OSv]] – written in C++ * [[Phantom OS]] – persistent object-oriented * [[ReactOS]] – open source OS designed to be binary compatible with [[Windows NT]] and its variants ([[Windows XP]], [[Windows 2000]], etc.); in development * [[SharpOS]] – written in .NET C# * [[Visopsys]] – written in C and assembly by Andy McLaughlin * [[Quantix]]
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