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These tables compare the various free software / open source operating systems. Where not all of the non-EOL versions support a feature, the first version which support it is listed.
[edit] General information
|
License |
Kernel type |
Kernel programming language |
Kernel Thread support |
OS family: |
Oldest non-EOL version[1] |
Forks |
Linux |
GPL/LGPL |
Monolithic with modules |
C |
1:1 |
Unix-like |
2.4 |
µClinux |
FreeBSD |
BSD (Typically, GPL/LGPL software included) |
Monolithic with modules |
C |
1:1 |
BSD, Unix-like |
6.3 |
DragonFly BSD |
OpenBSD |
BSD |
Monolithic with modules[2] |
C |
1:1 |
BSD, Unix-like |
4.2 |
MirOS |
NetBSD |
BSD |
Monolithic with modules |
C |
1:1, M:N |
BSD, Unix-like |
2 |
OpenBSD |
DragonFly BSD |
BSD |
Hybrid |
C |
|
BSD, Unix-like |
No |
|
OpenSolaris |
CDDL |
Monolithic with modules |
C |
1:1, M:N |
Unix |
No |
|
Darwin OpenDarwin PureDarwin |
APSL |
Hybrid |
C, C++[3] |
1:1 |
BSD, Unix, Unix-like, Mac OS X |
No |
|
Minix |
BSD |
Microkernel |
C |
|
Unix-like |
No |
|
FreeDOS |
GPL |
Monolithic |
C |
|
MSDOS, PCDOS |
No |
|
NewOS |
BSD |
Monolithic with modules |
C, C++ |
|
own[4] |
No |
Haiku |
Haiku |
MIT |
Monolithic with modules |
C, C++ |
|
BeOS |
No |
|
KolibriOS |
GPL |
Monolithic |
ASM |
|
own/original |
No |
|
MenuetOS |
Menuet 64 |
Monolithic |
ASM |
|
own/original |
No |
KolibriOS |
GNU Mach GNU Hurd |
GPL |
Microkernel |
|
|
Unix-like |
No |
|
ReactOS |
GPL/LGPL |
Hybrid |
ASM, C |
|
Windows-like |
No |
|
L4 Fiasco Pistachio |
GPL |
Microkernel |
C++ |
|
L4 |
No |
|
Plan 9 |
LPL |
Monolithic |
C |
1:1, 1:M Cothread style. |
own, unix inspired |
No |
Inferno, Plan B |
AROS |
APL |
Microkernel |
C |
|
AmigaOS |
No |
|
Syllable |
GPL |
Monolithic with modules |
C, C++ |
1:1 |
Unix-like, BeOS, AmigaOS, POSIX |
No |
|
Inferno |
GPL/LGPL/MIT |
|
C |
|
Plan 9 |
No |
OzInferno |
FreeRTOS |
modified GPL |
RTOS |
C |
|
RTOS |
No |
|
eCos |
modified GPL/eCos |
RTOS |
C, C++ |
|
RTOS |
No |
|
pico]OS |
BSD |
RTOS |
C |
|
RTOS |
No |
|
RTEMS |
modified GPL, BSD |
RTOS |
C and ASM with native support for other languages including C++ and Ada |
POSIX, RTEID/ORKID, uITRON |
RTOS |
4.7.1 |
|
HelenOS |
BSD |
Microkernel |
C |
M:N |
own/original |
No |
|
E/OS |
GPLv2 |
Monolithic |
ASM, C |
1:1 |
BeOS, Unix-like |
No |
|
TBOS |
BSD-style |
Monolithic |
ASM |
|
DOS-like |
|
Visopsys |
GPL |
|
C |
|
own |
No |
|
License |
Kernel type |
Kernel programming language |
Kernel Thread support |
OS family: |
Oldest non-EOL version[1] |
Forks |
^ No for single line development model.
^ OpenBSD contains support for modules on some architectures. They are used only to add third-party features: extracting existing functions into modules in the same manner as FreeBSD is not possible.
^ For IOKit.
^ Concept based on BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD and Windows NT.
[edit] Supported architectures
|
x86 / i386 / IA-32 |
x86 SMP |
Xen |
IA-64 |
x86-64 |
PowerPC |
PowerPC SMP |
SPARC32 |
SPARC SMP |
Alpha |
MIPS |
ARM |
XScale |
M68k |
PA-RISC |
other |
hosted mode |
Linux |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
FR-V, Cell, h8, s390, SuperH |
UML, coLinux, L4Linux, MkLinux, Itanium Linux-on-Linux, wombat |
FreeBSD[1] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
PC98 |
|
OpenBSD[2] |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Nob1[3] |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
SuperH, VAX, m88k |
|
NetBSD[4] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Nob1 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
SuperH, ns32k, VAX |
|
DragonFly BSD[5] |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
vkernel |
OpenSolaris[6] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
Darwin OpenDarwin[7] |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
|
L4/Darwin |
Minix[8] |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
FreeDOS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
NewOS |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
Haiku |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
KolibriOS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
MenuetOS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
GNU Mach GNU Hurd |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
|
ReactOS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
L4 Fiasco Pistachio |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yesb2 |
Yesb2 |
Yesb2 |
No |
No |
No |
Yesb2 |
Yesb2 |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
|
Fiasco-UX |
Plan 9 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yesb4 |
Yesb4 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yesb4 |
No |
See [3] and [4] |
|
AROS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
|
i386-linux, i386-freebsd |
Syllable |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
Inferno |
Yes |
? |
No |
No |
? |
Yes |
? |
Yes |
? |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yesb4 |
No |
AMD Am29000b4, Texas Instruments OMAP |
Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Plan 9, Mac OS X, Solaris, Irix, Unixwareb4, HP-UXb4, Internet Explorer |
FreeRTOS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
AVR, PIC, MSP430, HCS12, 8052, MicroBlaze, Cortex-M3, H8S |
|
eCos |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
CalmRISC, ColdFire, FR-V, h8, Matsushita AM3x, Nios II, NEC V8xx, SuperH |
Microsoft Windows, Linux |
pico]OS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
6502, AVR |
80x86 DOS, 80x86 WIN32 |
RTEMS |
Yes |
No |
Xen |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No] |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Blackfin, Nios II, Coldfire, Texas Instruments C3x/C4x, SuperH, H8S |
Linux, Solaris, Cygwin, FreeBSD plus multiple CPU simulators |
HelenOS |
Yes |
Yes |
Yesb3 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
E/OS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
TBOS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
Visopsys |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
x86 / i386 / IA-32 |
x86 SMP |
Xen |
IA-64 |
x86-64 |
PowerPC |
PowerPC SMP |
SPARC32 |
SPARC SMP |
Alpha |
MIPS |
ARM |
XScale |
M68k |
PA-RISC |
other |
hosted mode |
Note b1: Work in progress.
Note b2: Pistachio supports AMD64; Fiasco only in the CVS version.
Note b3: Xen 3.0.1 supported up to basic kernel functionality. Support for Xen 3.0.4 is broken as of now.
Note b4: Support is outdated or unmaintained.
[edit] Supported hardware
[edit] General
[edit] Networking
[edit] Network technologies
Note e1: NetBSD has a kernel-only PPPoE driver.
[edit] Supported file systems
|
FAT16 / dosfs, FAT32 / vfat |
NTFS |
Ext2 |
Ext3 |
XFS |
ReiserFS |
UFS |
UFS2 |
HFS |
HFS+ |
Minixfs |
BFS |
ISO 9660 |
UDF |
NFS |
SMBFS |
RAM disk / tmpfs |
ZFS |
Other special file systems |
Linux |
Yes |
Yes[5][7] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes[2] |
Yes[16] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes[2] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
9P,[3] FUSE,[3] sysfs,[3] configfs,[3] Reiser4,[3][4] JFS |
FreeBSD |
Yes |
Yes[2][7] |
Yes |
Yes[2] |
Yes[5] |
Yes[2] |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
FUSE, nullfs, UnionFS |
OpenBSD |
Yes |
Yes[2] |
Yes |
|
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
AFS |
NetBSD |
Yes |
Yes[2][7] |
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes[2] |
|
|
Yes |
Yes[2] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
PUFFS, LFS, EFS |
DragonFly BSD |
Yes |
Yes[2] |
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
|
No |
nullfs |
OpenSolaris |
Yes |
Yes [7][8] |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
CIFS (native),QFS |
Darwin OpenDarwin |
Yes |
Yes[2][7] |
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Minix |
Yes |
No |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
No |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FreeDOS |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
|
No |
No |
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
|
|
|
NewOS |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Haiku |
Yes |
Yes [7] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
KolibriOS |
Yes |
Yes[2] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
|
|
MenuetOS |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
GNU Mach GNU Hurd |
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
|
ReactOS |
Yes |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
|
|
No |
No |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
L4 Fiasco Pistachio |
Yes |
No |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Plan 9 |
Yes |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Fossil, Venti, most system services |
AROS |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
SFS, AFFS |
Syllable |
Yes |
Yes[2] |
Yes[2] |
Yes[2] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
|
AFS |
Inferno |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
kfs, most system services |
FreeRTOS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
eCos |
Yes |
|
Yes[2] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
MMFS, ROMfs, JFFS2, YAFFS |
RTEMS |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
TarFS, TFTP FS, IMFS, miniIMFS |
HelenOS |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
|
E/OS |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes[6] |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
No |
Visopsys |
Yes |
No |
Yes[1] |
Yes[1] |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
No |
|
FAT16 / dosfs, FAT32 / vfat |
NTFS |
Ext2 |
Ext3 |
XFS |
ReiserFS |
UFS |
UFS2 |
HFS |
HFS+ |
Minixfs |
BFS |
ISO 9660 |
UDF |
NFS |
SMBFS |
RAM disk / tmpfs |
ZFS |
Other special file systems |
^ Partial write support in 2.6, can only write inside loop files.
^ Read only kernel driver.
^ 2.6 and later.
^ With patch[7].
^ Experimental.
^ Default in series 028.
^ Read/Write support via NTFS-3G.
^ OpenSolaris also has an in-kernel, native CIFS server built directly on the ZFS DMU.
[edit] Supported file system features
|
RAID |
quota |
Resource access control |
encryption |
other special file system features |
Linux |
Yes |
Yes |
Unix, ACL, MAC |
Yes |
LVM, EVMS |
FreeBSD |
Yes |
Yes |
Unix, ACL, MAC |
Yes |
GEOM, snapshots, background fsck, user-mountable file systems |
OpenBSD |
Yes |
Yes |
Unix |
Yes |
|
NetBSD |
Yes |
Yes |
Unix, Veriexec |
Yes |
|
DragonFly BSD |
|
Yes |
|
|
|
OpenSolaris |
Yes |
Yes |
Unix, ACL, MAC |
|
Solaris Volume Manager, ZFS, snapshots, transparent data repair |
Darwin OpenDarwin |
|
Yes |
Unix, ACL |
Yes |
|
Minix |
|
|
Unix |
|
|
FreeDOS |
|
|
No |
|
|
NewOS |
|
|
|
|
|
Haiku |
|
|
|
|
|
KolibriOS |
|
|
No |
|
|
MenuetOS |
|
|
No |
|
|
GNU Mach GNU Hurd |
|
|
Unix |
|
|
ReactOS |
|
|
No |
|
|
L4 Fiasco Pistachio |
|
|
|
|
|
Plan 9 |
No |
No |
Unix-like, no root |
No |
snapshots, venti archival storage, per-process namespace, user-mountable file systems |
AROS |
|
|
|
|
|
Syllable |
|
|
Unix |
|
64-bit, journaling, extended file attributes |
Inferno |
No |
No |
Unix-like, no root |
No |
per-process namespace, user-mountable file systems |
FreeRTOS |
|
|
|
|
|
eCos |
|
|
|
|
|
pico]OS |
|
|
|
|
|
RTEMS |
|
|
|
|
|
HelenOS |
|
|
|
|
|
E/OS |
Yes |
Yes |
Unix |
Yes |
No |
Visopsys |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
|
RAID |
quota |
Resource access control |
encryption |
other special file system features |
[edit] Security features
Operating system |
Mandatory access control |
Software executable space protection |
Operating system-level virtualization |
Virtualisation |
Userspace protection |
Others |
Linux |
SELinux, AppArmor[1] |
Exec Shield [1] ,PaX[1] |
Chroot,namespace and cgroups[4], Linux-VServer[1],OpenVZ[1],FreeVPS[1] |
KVM |
IPFilter, IPTables |
grsecurity [1], RSBAC[1] |
FreeBSD |
SeBSD[2] [3], TrustedBSD |
|
jail |
|
IPFW, PF |
|
Darwin |
SEDarwin, TrustedBSD |
|
jail |
|
IPFW |
|
OpenBSD |
TrustedBSD |
W^X |
sysjail |
|
PF, IPF |
|
OpenSolaris |
TrustedBSD |
|
Solaris Containers |
|
IPF |
|
Plan 9 |
No |
No |
per-process namespaces |
|
|
|
Inferno |
No |
No |
per-process namespaces |
|
|
|
^ available as a patch(not integrated into the linux kernel or the userland uttilities),see the security features of the linux distribution for more details
^ not integrated into the Operating system
^ see here for more details
^ see lwn.net for mode details
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Supported Platforms
- ^ "OpenBSD Platforms". OpenBSD. 2006-05-09. http://www.openbsd.org/plat.html. Retrieved on 2006-06-13.
- ^ "OpenBSD/macppc". OpenBSD. 2006-05-23. http://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html#projects. Retrieved on 2006-06-13.
- ^ Hardware Supported by NetBSD
- ^ DragonFly Frequently Asked Questions
- ^ OpenSolaris FAQ: Does the OpenSolaris project include source code for both the SPARC and x64/x86 architectures?
- ^ OpenDarwin FAQ: Compatibility issues
- ^ Minix 3 FAQ
- ^ Manual Pages: radeon(4)
- ^ Manual Pages: radeon(4)
- ^ Manual Pages: nv(4)
- ^ USB with DOS - Limited support for some devices provided by third-party driver.
- ^ Supported Hardware - ReactOS
- ^ Installing ReactOS - ReactOS
- ^ [1] - Very limited support.
- ^ [2]
[edit] External links
[edit] Emulator images
[edit] Software and packages