Operating Systems

They are many of them and some of them are really good.

# Really Good

## OpenBSD

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix. Theo de Raadt

• unix philosophy, correctness, simple, secure
• if u can, use it for everything

### MirBSD

• MirBSD (fun fork of OpenBSD)

## Alpine Linux

• small, simple, secure
• open-rc, musl libc, busybox, posix shell
• has a lot of packages
• https://www.alpinelinux.org/

# Also nice

## Void Linux

• musl or gnu libc, posix shell, runit
• https://voidlinux.org/

### Guix Package Manager

• https://guix.gnu.org/
• https://atomized.org/blog/2026/04/18/bootstrapping-nonguix/

## Gentoo

• nice idea to compile everything from source, good wiki
• https://www.gentoo.org/
• has build with musl, llvm and hardenend, uses openrc
• disadvantage: portage written in python and should not replace core utils

### Gentoo 2

• https://crux.nu/

### Gentoo 3

• https://www.exherbo.org/

## Kiss Linux

• same idea as gentoo, but with mostly wayland
• https://kisslinux.github.io/
• https://kisscommunity.bvnf.space/wayland/
• https://comfy.guide/client/kisslinux/
• https://bvnf.space/blog/010-kiss-misc.html
• denshi video about it

## Oasis

• nice idea to link everything statically, package management and measurement of dependencies
• https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis

## Glaucus Linux

• https://glaucuslinux.org/
• https://landley.net/toybox/
• https://codeberg.org/firasuke/awesome

# Just works but bloated

You don't know what you're doing, but that is an advantage and the whole point of these distributions.

## Garuda Linux

• arch based Dekstop OS
• https://garudalinux.org/
• with kde lite somewhat minimal

## Linux Mint

• ubuntu/debian based Desktop OS
• https://www.linuxmint.com/

## Arch Linux

• https://archlinux.org
• for people who want to say 'I use arch btw'
• there are some users who know what they are doing, but not many
• bloated (systemd, glibc, gnu)

## NixOS

• for people who used mac and want to use linux
• maybe for big companies, bloated (systemd, glibc, gnu)
• https://nixos.org

# Could be interesting

## Redox OS

• Micro kernel design, written in rust
• https://www.minix3.org/
• https://www.redox-os.org/

## Plan 9

• developed some nice things and ideas for operating systems in general
• https://plan9.io/plan9/
• https://9front.org/
• https://9fs.net/

# Credits/See Also

• https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/operating-systems/