The openSUSE project creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. It is aimed towards users and developers working on the desktop or server. It is great for beginners, experienced users and ultra geeks alike, in short, it is perfect for everybody. It comes with more than 1,000 open source applications.

openSUSE - Linux for Open Minds

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.
Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 29000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

Debian - The Universal Operating System

MINIX 3 is a free, open-source, operating system designed to be highly reliable, flexible, and secure. It is based on a tiny microkernel running in kernel mode with the rest of the operating system running as a collection of isolated, protected, processes in user mode.

Minix - Operating System by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture. It's a complete embedded Linux development environment with tools, metadata, and documentation - everything you need. 

Yocto Project - Create Custom Linux Distribution

Chakra is a free, user-friendly and extremely powerful liveCD distribution based on the KDE Software Compilation. Chakra is by default a GTk free distribution specially made for run Qt based applications and frameworks at full performance. Its goal is to build an operating system that meets most requirements desktop users have today,

Chakra - Desktop OS

Vinux is a remastered version of the Ubuntu Linux Distribution optimised for visually impaired users. It provides a screen-reader, full-screen magnification and support for Braille displays out of the box! It can be run from a Live CD without making any changes to your hard drive. If you like it you can install it to a USB pendrive or to your hard drive either alongside Windows using the Virtual Version, or as a complete replacement for windows.

Vinux - Linux for Visually Impaired Users

Nachos is instructional software for teaching undergraduate, and potentially 
graduate, level operating systems courses. The assignments illustrate and explore all areas of modern operating systems, including threads and concurrency, multiprogramming, system calls, virtual memory, software-loaded TLB's, file systems, 
network protocols, remote procedure call, and distributed systems.

Nachos - Instructional Operating System

GeeXboX is a free and Open Source Media-Center purposed Linux distribution for embedded devices and desktop computers. It provides you a ready-to-be-used, plug-and-play Media Center application that can play any kind of multimedia content (Audio, Videos, Photos …) from any location (CD, DVD, Bluray, HDD, USB, Samba, NFS, UPnP, SHOUTcast …). It has been designed to be fully controllable through either keyboard, mouse or a remote controller. 

Geexbox - Embedded Linux Media Center Distribution

Akaros is an operating system designed for many-core architectures and large-scale SMP systems. Its goal is to provide better support for parallel and high-performance applications. 

Akaros - Operating System for Multi Core Architectures

OpenInkpot is a free and open-source Linux distribution for eBook reading devices, especially with e-Paper and other high-latency, bi-stable screens. 

OpenInkpot - Linux Distribution for eBook Reading Devices

Discover open source projects across all platforms

Projects