OmniOS Community Edition


OmniOS Community Edition

License:


Description:

OmniOS Community Edition is an open-source illumos-based enterprise server OS featuring ZFS, bhyve and Crossbow networking, DTrace, SMF, Linux zone support, and lightweight virtualization. It emphasizes a minimal, feature-focused platform with rapid deployment and open development on GitHub.

Insanely Small Linux (ISL)

Insanely Small Linux (ISL)

License: MIT License


Description:

Insanely Small Linux (ISL) is a minimalist Linux OS for x86_64 designed to fit a tiny footprint—about 5MB. It uses a custom kernel build, BusyBox, a bespoke login manager, and a shell, prioritizing extreme optimization and rapid boot for development and experimentation.

river


river

License: GPL-3.0-only, MIT


Description:

River is a non-monolithic Wayland compositor that delegates window management to separate window managers implementing the river-window-management-v1 protocol, providing core compositing and rendering, support for Wayland extensions, XWayland, and hot-swapping window managers for flexible desktop environments.

LiteBox

LiteBox

License: MIT


Description:

LiteBox is a security-focused library OS that enables kernel- and user-space execution with a minimal host interface, supporting cross-platform North/South shims; used to run Linux programs on Windows, sandbox Linux apps, and run OP-TEE or LVBS environments.

MiniOS

MiniOS

License: GPL-2.0


Description:

MiniOS is a lightweight, fast Debian-based Linux distribution designed to run from USB or RAM. It features an XFCE desktop, live-boot support (UEFI/BIOS), Debian stability, and modular SquashFS extensions for a portable, customizable desktop.