Comparison of open-source operating systems
These tables compare free software / open-source operating systems. Where not all of the versions support a feature, the first version which supports it is listed.
General information
Name | License | Kernel type | Kernel programming language | Kernel thread support | OS family | Oldest non-EOL version[Note 1] | Forks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Linux | GPL version 2 only | Monolithic with modules | C | 1:1 | Unix-like | 4.4 | elks |
FreeBSD | BSD; GPL, LGPL software usually included | Monolithic with modules | C | 1:1 | BSD, Unix-like | 11 | DragonFly BSD |
OpenBSD | BSD | Monolithic | C | 1:1 | BSD, Unix-like | 6.4 | MirOS |
NetBSD | BSD | Monolithic with modules | C | 1:1 | BSD, Unix-like | 7.0 | OpenBSD |
DragonFly BSD | BSD | Hybrid | C | 1:1 | BSD, Unix-like | No | |
OpenSolaris, illumos | CDDL | Monolithic with modules | C | 1:1, M:N | Unix | No | |
Darwin, OpenDarwin | APSL | Hybrid | C, C++[Note 2] | 1:1 | BSD, Unix, Unix-like, OS X | No | |
OpenHarmony | Apache | Multi-kernel (inc. add-ons, alongside custom add-ons not part of OpenHarmony project) | Various (C, C++, Rust, Cangjie) | 1:1, M:N, POSIX | LiteOS | 3.0.1 LTS | Oniro OS, HarmonyOS (NEXT) |
Oniro | Eclipse, Apache | Multi-kernel (inc. add-ons, alongside custom add-ons not part of Oniro project) | Various (C, C++, Rust, Cangjie) | 1:1, M:N, POSIX | OpenHarmony | 3.2 LTS | HarmonyOS (NEXT) |
MINIX | BSD | Microkernel | C | Unix-like | No | ||
RedoxOS | MIT | Microkernel | Rust | Unix-like | No | ||
FreeRTOS | MIT | RTOS | C | RTOS | No | ||
FreeDOS | GPL | Monolithic | C | DOS | 1.1 | ||
Genode | AGPL | Microkernel | C++ | 1:1 | Genode | ||
Haiku | MIT | Hybrid | C, C++ | BeOS | No | TiltOS | |
House | BSD | Haskell | own/original | No | |||
KolibriOS | GPL | Monolithic | ASM | MenuetOS | No | ||
MenuetOS | Menuet 64, commerce excluded | Monolithic | ASM | own/original | No | KolibriOS | |
GNU | GPL | Multiserver Microkernel (Hurd kernel) or Monolithic (Linux-libre kernel, fork of Linux kernel, and other kernels which are not part of the GNU Project) | C | 1:1 | Unix-like | 2.4 on Linux-libre kernel (not on Hurd kernel) | Linux |
ReactOS | GPL, LGPL | Hybrid | C, C++ | Windows-like | No | ||
RISC OS | Apache 2.0 | Monolithic (with cooperative multitasking) | ARM assembly | ![]() | RISC OS | No | RISC OS 6 |
L4, Fiasco, Pistachio | Some GPL, some BSD | Microkernel | C++ | L4 | No | ||
Plan 9 | MIT | Hybrid | C | 1:1, 1:M Cothread style. | own, Unix informed | No | Inferno, Plan B, 9front |
AROS | APL | Exokernel | 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 | ||
NuttX | BSD | RTOS | C | RTOS | No | ||
eCos | modified GPL, eCos | RTOS | C, C++ | RTOS | No | ||
RTEMS | modified GPL, BSD, Stanford | 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 | |
TempleOS | public domain | Monolithic | HolyC, C, C++ | Commodore 64-like | No | ||
Name | License | Kernel type | Kernel programming language | Kernel thread support | OS family | Oldest non-EOL version | Forks |
Supported architectures
Name | x86, i386, IA-32 | x86 SMP | Xen | IA-64 | x86-64 | PowerPC | PowerPC SMP | SPARC32 | SPARC SMP | Alpha | MIPS | ARM | XScale | M68k | PA-RISC | OpenRISC | others | hosted mode |
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Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | FR-V, Cell, ETRAX CRIS, M32R, Xtensa, h8, s390, SuperH | UML, coLinux, MkLinux, Itanium Linux-on-Linux, wombat |
FreeBSD[1] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | PC98 | |
OpenBSD[2] | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | SuperH | |
NetBSD[3] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | SuperH, ns32k, VAX, hppa, M68010, mipseb, mipsel, sh3eb, sh3el, sparc64 | |
DragonFly BSD[4] | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | vkernel | |
OpenSolaris[5] illumos | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
Darwin, OpenDarwin[6] | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | L4/Darwin | |
OpenHarmony | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
Oniro | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
MINIX[7] | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
FreeDOS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
Genode | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | RISC-V | Linux |
Haiku | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No[Note 1][8] | No | No | No | No | ||
KolibriOS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | 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 | No | ||
GNU | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | FR-V, Cell, ETRAX CRIS, M32R, Xtensa, h8, s390, SuperH[Note 2] | UML, Itanium Linux-on-Linux[Note 3] |
ReactOS | Yes | Yes | No[Note 1] | No | Yes | No[Note 1] | No[Note 1] | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
RISC OS | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
L4, Pistachio | Yes | No | No | Yes[Note 4] | Yes[Note 4] | Yes[Note 4] | No | No | No | Yes[Note 4] | Yes[Note 4] | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
Plan 9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 5] | Yes[Note 5] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 5] | No | No | See[9][10] | lguest, vx32 |
AROS | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | i386-linux, i386-freebsd | |
Syllable | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
Inferno | Yes | ? | No | No | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 5] | No | No | AMD Am29000,[Note 5] Texas Instruments OMAP | Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Plan 9, OS X, Solaris, Irix, UnixWare,[Note 5] HP-UX,[Note 5] Internet Explorer |
FreeRTOS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | 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 | Yes | CalmRISC, ColdFire, FR-V, h8, Matsushita AM3x, Nios II, NEC V8xx, SuperH | Microsoft Windows, Linux |
RTEMS | Yes | No | Xen | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Blackfin, Nios II, Coldfire, Texas Instruments C3x/C4x, SuperH, H8S | Linux, Solaris, Cygwin, FreeBSD, multiple CPU simulators |
HelenOS | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
E/OS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
TempleOS | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | QEMU, VirtualBox, etc. | |
Name | x86, i386, IA-32 | x86 SMP | Xen | IA-64 | x86-64 | PowerPC | PowerPC SMP | SPARC32 | SPARC SMP | Alpha | MIPS | ARM | XScale | M68k | PA-RISC | OpenRISC | other | hosted mode |
- ^ a b c d work in progress
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel
- ^ with Linux-libre and Linux kernel
- ^ a b c d e Pistachio supports AMD64; Fiasco only in the CVS version.
- ^ a b c d e f g Support is outdated or unmaintained.
Supported hardware
General
Name | ATA | SATA | SCSI | USB 3.0 | USB 2.0 | USB 1.1 | FireWire | PCMCIA/PC card | AGP | Nvidia official driver IA-32 | Nvidia official driver IA-64 | Nvidia official driver AMD64 | ATI official driver x86 | ATI official driver x86-64 | ATI r200 free software driver | ATI r300 free software driver | Nvidia free software driver | Audio | TV tuner, video editing, or webcam |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 2.6.31+[11] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes,nv(2d only), nouveau(3d with mesa) | OSS, ALSA | V4L,V4L2 |
FreeBSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 8.2+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
OpenBSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 5.7+ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes[12] | 2d only[12] | 2d only[13] | Yes | Yes |
NetBSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 8.0+[14] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||
DragonFly BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[15] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||||
OpenSolaris, illumos | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | V4L2 | |||
Darwin, OpenDarwin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |||||||||
OpenHarmony | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Oniro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
MINIX | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||||||||||
FreeDOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No[16] | No[16] | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Genode | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Haiku | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
KolibriOS | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | |||||
MenuetOS | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||||
GNU | Yes | Yes[Note 1] | Yes[Note 1] | Yes[Note 1] | Yes[Note 1] | Yes[Note 1] | Yes[Note 1] | Yes | No[Note 2] | No[Note 2] | No[Note 2] | No[Note 2] | No[Note 2] | No[Note 3] | No[Note 3] | Yes[Note 1] | Yes[Note 1] | Yes[Note 1] | |
ReactOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[17] | Yes[17] | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |||||
RISC OS | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | TV tuner[18] |
L4, Fiasco, Pistachio | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||||||||||
Plan 9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||||
AROS | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | own | No | 2D only | |||||||||||
Syllable | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||||||||
Inferno | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |||||
FreeRTOS | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||||||||||
eCos | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||||||
RTEMS | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ||||||||||||
HelenOS | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
E/OS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[5] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||
Name | ATA | SATA | SCSI | USB 3.0 | USB 2.0 | USB 1.1 | FireWire | PCMCIA/PC card | AGP | Nvidia official driver IA-32 | Nvidia official driver IA-64 | Nvidia official driver AMD64 | ATI official driver x86 | ATI official driver x86-64 | ATI r200 free software driver | ATI r300 free software driver | Nvidia free software driver | Audio | TV tuner, video editing, or webcam |
- ^ a b c d e f g h i is not supported on Hurd kernel for now
- ^ a b c d e Proprietary Software is not officially supported on GNU system
- ^ a b Proprietary Firmware blob is not officially supported on GNU system
Networking
Name | Networking support | NE2000/RTL8029 | RTL8139 | Gigabit Ethernet | 10 Gigabit Ethernet | Wireless LAN | Bluetooth | IrDA |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
FreeBSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
OpenBSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
NetBSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
DragonFly BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
OpenSolaris, illumos | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Darwin, OpenDarwin | Yes | |||||||
OpenHarmony | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Oniro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
MINIX | Yes | Yes | ||||||
FreeDOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
Genode | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Haiku | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
KolibriOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |||
MenuetOS | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||||
GNU | Yes | |||||||
ReactOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
L4, Fiasco, Pistachio | ||||||||
Plan 9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
AROS | Yes | Yes | ||||||
Syllable | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
Inferno | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
FreeRTOS | ||||||||
eCos | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
RTEMS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
HelenOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
E/OS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[6] | No | No |
Name | Networking support | NE2000/RTL8029 | RTL8139 | Gigabit Ethernet | 10 Gigabit Ethernet | Wireless LAN | Bluetooth | IrDA |
Network technologies
Name | Firewall | TCP/IP | IPv6 | IPX | PPP | PPPoE | DHCP | Bridge | TUN/TAP | SSH | OpenVPN |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Linux | netfilter iptables/nftables | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
FreeBSD | IPFW2, IPFilter, PF | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
OpenBSD | PF | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
NetBSD | IPFilter, NPF, PF | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 1] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
DragonFly BSD | IPFW2, PF | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
OpenSolaris, illumos | IPFilter | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | Yes | Yes | |
Darwin, OpenDarwin | IPFW | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
OpenHarmony | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Oniro | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
MINIX | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
FreeDOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
Genode | software IP routing | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||
Haiku | None | Yes | Yes[citation needed] | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
KolibriOS | None | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | |||||
MenuetOS | None | Yes | No | No | No | ||||||
GNU | netfilter iptables/nftables (with Linux-libre and Linux kernel)[Note 3] | Yes | Yes[Note 4] | Yes[Note 5] | Yes | ||||||
ReactOS | Yes | Yes[citation needed] | |||||||||
L4, Fiasco, Pistachio | |||||||||||
Plan 9 | ipmux | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
AROS | Yes | ||||||||||
Syllable | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
Inferno | ipmux | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
FreeRTOS | |||||||||||
eCos | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
RTEMS | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
HelenOS | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
E/OS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
Name | Firewall | TCP/IP | IPv6 | IPX | PPP | PPPoE | DHCP | bridge | TUN/TAP | ssh | OpenVPN |
Supported file systems
Name | 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[Note 1] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[19] | Yes | Yes[Note 3] | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9P,[Note 4] FUSE,[Note 4] sysfs,[Note 4] configfs,[Note 4] Reiser4,[Note 4][Note 5] JFS, Btrfs, UnionFS, Ext4 |
FreeBSD | Yes | Yes[Note 2][Note 6] | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 7] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | FUSE, nullfs, UnionFS |
NetBSD | Yes | Yes[Note 2][Note 6] | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | No | No | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | PUFFS, LFS, EFS | ||
OpenBSD | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | AFS | |
DragonFly BSD | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[Note 8] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | HAMMER, nullfs, PUFFS |
OpenSolaris, illumos | Yes | Yes [Note 6][Note 9] | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | SMB (native), QFS | |
Darwin, OpenDarwin | Yes | Yes[Note 2][Note 6] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
OpenHarmony | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ex4, F2FS, EROFS, HMDFS |
Oniro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ex4, F2FS, EROFS, HMDFS |
MINIX | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ||||||||||||||
FreeDOS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
Genode | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Extensible VFS layer |
Haiku | Yes | Yes [Note 6] | Yes [Note 10] | Yes [Note 10] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[Note 11] | ||||||||||
KolibriOS | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
MenuetOS | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
GNU | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 12] | Yes[Note 13] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||||||||||
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 | No | Fossil, Venti, most system services | |
AROS | Yes | Yes | SFS, AFFS | ||||||||||||||||
Syllable | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 2] | Yes[Note 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 | No | ||||||||||||||||||
eCos | Yes | Yes[Note 2] | Yes | MMFS, ROMfs, JFFS2, YAFFS | |||||||||||||||
RTEMS | Yes | Yes | Yes | TarFS, TFTP FS, IMFS, miniIMFS | |||||||||||||||
HelenOS | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | locfs, exFAT | |
E/OS | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[Note 14] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Name | 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 |
- ^ From 5.15 there is a new NTFS in-kernel driver that's supports reads and writes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Read only kernel driver.
- ^ read/write access without journaling; HFS+ with journal either be opened read-only or be written with journal ignored (potentially corrupting the file system).
- ^ a b c d e 2.6 and later.
- ^ With patch [1] Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b c d e Read/Write support via NTFS-3G.
- ^ Experimental.
- ^ Read only.
- ^ OpenSolaris also has an in-kernel, native SMB server built directly on the ZFS DMU.
- ^ a b Ext2/3 read and write support for Haiku (jvff's blog).
- ^ The GSoC 2009 project assignment was never completed (Obaro Ogbo's blog Archived 17 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine).
- ^ Ext3/4 is not supported on Hurd kernel for now
- ^ UFS support is dropped on Hurd kernel for now
- ^ Default in series 028.
Supported file system features
Name | 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 | Snapshots, Journaling |
DragonFly BSD | Yes | Yes | Unix | Yes | HAMMER, Snapshots, Checksumming, Deduplication |
OpenSolaris, illumos | Yes | Yes | Unix, ACL, MAC | Yes | Solaris Volume Manager, ZFS, snapshots, transparent data repair |
Darwin, OpenDarwin | Yes | Unix, ACL | Yes | ||
OpenHarmony | No | No | RBAC | Yes | HMDFS, Access token manager |
Oniro | No | No | RBAC | Yes | HMDFS, Access token manager |
MINIX | Unix | ||||
FreeDOS | No | ||||
Genode | No | No | No | No | Per-process virtual file-system layer |
KolibriOS | No | ||||
MenuetOS | No | ||||
GNU | 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 | |||||
RTEMS | |||||
HelenOS | No | No | No | No | No |
E/OS | Yes | Yes | Unix | Yes | No |
Name | RAID | quota | Resource access control | encryption | other special file system features |
Security features
Operating system | Mandatory access control | Software executable space protection | Operating system-level virtualization | Virtualisation | Userspace protection | Others |
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Linux | SELinux, AppArmor[Note 1] | Exec Shield,[Note 1] PaX[Note 1] | Chroot, namespace and cgroups,[Note 2] Linux-VServer,[Note 1] OpenVZ[Note 1] | KVM | IPFilter, Iptables | grsecurity,[Note 1] RSBAC[Note 1] |
FreeBSD | SeBSD,[Note 3][Note 4] TrustedBSD | ProPolice/SSP[Note 5] | jail | bhyve[20] | IPFW, PF, IPFilter | |
Darwin | SEDarwin, TrustedBSD | jail | IPFW | |||
OpenBSD | W^X, ProPolice/SSP[Note 6] | vmm[21] | PF | |||
OpenSolaris, illumos | TrustedBSD | Solaris Containers | KVM[22] | IPFilter | RBAC[23] | |
OpenHarmony | iTrustee (TEEOS) | Distributed Virtual Framework | device_qemu | appverify[24] | RBAC | |
Oniro | iTrustee (TEEOS) | Distributed Virtual Framework | device_qemu[25] | appverify | RBAC | |
Plan 9 | No | No | per-process namespaces | |||
Inferno | No | No | per-process namespaces |
- ^ a b c d e f g available as a patch(not integrated into the linux kernel or the userland utilities), see the security features of the Linux distribution for more details
- ^ LXC is a front-end to this; also see lwn.net
- ^ not integrated into the operating system
- ^ see here [2] for more details
- ^ ProPolice/Stack-Smashing Protector has been enabled in base system since FreeBSD 8.0 release.
- ^ see here [3] for more details
See also
- Berkeley Software Distribution
- Comparison of operating systems
- Comparison of Linux distributions
- Comparison of BSD operating systems
- Comparison of kernels
- Comparison of file systems
- Comparison of platform virtualization software
- Comparison of DOS operating systems
- List of operating systems
- Live CD
- RTEMS
- Unix
- Unix-like
References
- ^ "Supported Platforms". Freebsd.org. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ "OpenBSD: Platforms". OpenBSD. 9 May 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
- ^ "Platforms Supported by NetBSD". NetBSD.org. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
- ^ DragonFly Frequently Asked Questions Archived 6 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "OpenSolaris FAQ: Does the OpenSolaris project include source code for both the SPARC and x64/x86 architectures?". Opensolaris.org. 26 October 2009. Archived from the original on 27 September 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ "OpenDarwin FAQ: Compatibility issues". 15 April 2007. Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ "MINIX 3 Hardware Requirements". MINIX3.org. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ^ "Haiku ARM port progress". 18 August 2009. Archived from the original on 12 May 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ^ "The Various Ports". Plan9.bell-labs.com. Archived from the original on 14 September 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ "Other hardware (Plan 9 wiki)". Plan9.bell-labs.com. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ "First Driver for USB 3.0". 9 June 2009.
- ^ a b "Manual Pages: radeon(4)". OpenBSD.org. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ "Manual Pages: nv(4)". OpenBSD.org. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ Larabel, Michael (21 July 2018). "NetBSD 8.0 Officially Released With USB3 Support, Security Improvements & UEFI". Phoronix.
- ^ "DragonFly Release 3.2".
- ^ a b USB with DOS Archived 22 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine – Limited support for some devices provided by third-party driver.
- ^ a b [4] – Very limited support.
- ^ "TV Tuner information". cconcepts.co.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ "Ufs2 write support for linux | hawking's weblog". Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 28 August 2008.
- ^ "bhyve".
- ^ "vmm(4)". OpenBSD. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
- ^ "KVM". Joyent. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ "RBAC". Oracle. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ openharmony/security_appverify, OpenHarmony, 6 January 2022, retrieved 1 July 2024
- ^ eclipse-oniro-mirrors/device_qemu, Eclipse Oniro Mirrors, 22 September 2023, retrieved 1 July 2024
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