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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 version¹	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++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	HarmonyOS (without AOSP), 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
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, C, BBC BASIC		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	Hybrid³	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
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 ⁴	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	PC98
OpenBSD ⁵	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	SuperH
NetBSD ⁶	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 ⁷	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No		vkernel
OpenSolaris ⁸ illumos	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Darwin, OpenDarwin ⁹	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 ¹⁰	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	No¹¹ ¹²	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	Yes¹³	Yes¹⁴	Yes¹⁵	Yes¹⁶	Yes¹⁷	Yes¹⁸	Yes¹⁹	Yes²⁰	Yes²¹	Yes²²	Yes²³	Yes²⁴	Yes²⁵	Yes²⁶	Yes²⁷	FR-V, Cell, ETRAX CRIS, M32R, Xtensa, h8, s390, SuperH ²⁸	UML, Itanium Linux-on-Linux ²⁹
ReactOS	Yes	Yes	No³⁰	No	Yes	No³¹	No³²	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	Yes³³	Yes³⁴	Yes³⁵	No	No	No	Yes³⁶	Yes³⁷	Yes	No	No	No	No
Plan 9	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes³⁸	Yes³⁹	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes⁴⁰	No	No	See⁴¹ ⁴²	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	Yes⁴³	No	No	AMD Am29000,⁴⁴ Texas Instruments OMAP	Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Plan 9, OS X, Solaris, Irix, UnixWare,⁴⁵ HP-UX,⁴⁶ 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

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+⁴⁷	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	Yes⁴⁸	2d only⁴⁹	2d only⁵⁰	Yes	Yes
NetBSD	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes 8.0+⁵¹	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No				Yes	Yes
DragonFly BSD	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes⁵²	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	No⁵³	No⁵⁴	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	Yes⁵⁵	Yes⁵⁶		Yes⁵⁷	Yes⁵⁸	Yes⁵⁹	Yes⁶⁰	Yes	No⁶¹	No⁶²	No⁶³	No⁶⁴	No⁶⁵	No⁶⁶	No⁶⁷	Yes⁶⁸	Yes⁶⁹	Yes⁷⁰
ReactOS	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes⁷¹	Yes⁷²	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 tuner⁷³
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

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	Yes⁷⁴	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	Yes⁷⁵	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				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)⁷⁶	Yes	Yes⁷⁷				Yes⁷⁸			Yes
ReactOS		Yes	Yes
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	Yes⁷⁹	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes⁸⁰	Yes⁸¹	Yes	Yes⁸²	Yes	Yes⁸³	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9P,⁸⁴ FUSE,⁸⁵ sysfs,⁸⁶ configfs,⁸⁷ Reiser4,⁸⁸ ⁸⁹ JFS, Btrfs, UnionFS, Ext4
FreeBSD	Yes	Yes⁹⁰ ⁹¹	Yes	Yes⁹²	Yes⁹³	Yes⁹⁴	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	FUSE, nullfs, UnionFS
NetBSD	Yes	Yes⁹⁵ ⁹⁶	Yes		No	No	Yes	Yes		Yes⁹⁷	No	No	Yes	Yes⁹⁸	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	PUFFS, LFS, EFS
OpenBSD	Yes	Yes⁹⁹	Yes		No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	AFS
DragonFly BSD	Yes	Yes¹⁰⁰	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes¹⁰¹	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	HAMMER, nullfs, PUFFS
OpenSolaris, illumos	Yes	Yes ¹⁰² ¹⁰³	No	No	No	No	Yes		No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	SMB (native), QFS
Darwin, OpenDarwin	Yes	Yes¹⁰⁴ ¹⁰⁵					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 ¹⁰⁶	Yes ¹⁰⁷	Yes ¹⁰⁸								Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No¹⁰⁹
KolibriOS	Yes	Yes¹¹⁰	Yes¹¹¹	Yes¹¹²	Yes¹¹³								Yes				Yes
MenuetOS	Yes
GNU	Yes		Yes	Yes¹¹⁴			Yes¹¹⁵						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	Yes¹¹⁶	Yes¹¹⁷	Yes¹¹⁸								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		Yes¹¹⁹														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	Yes¹²⁰	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

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
Linux	SELinux, AppArmor ¹²¹	Exec Shield,¹²² PaX ¹²³	Chroot, namespace and cgroups,¹²⁴ Linux-VServer,¹²⁵ OpenVZ ¹²⁶	KVM	IPFilter, Iptables	grsecurity,¹²⁷ RSBAC ¹²⁸
FreeBSD	SeBSD,¹²⁹ ¹³⁰ TrustedBSD	ProPolice/SSP ¹³¹	jail	bhyve ¹³²	IPFW, PF, IPFilter
Darwin	SEDarwin, TrustedBSD		jail		IPFW
OpenBSD		W^X, ProPolice/SSP ¹³³		vmm¹³⁴	PF
OpenSolaris, illumos	TrustedBSD		Solaris Containers	KVM ¹³⁵	IPFilter	RBAC¹³⁶
OpenHarmony	iTrustee (TEEOS)		Distributed Virtual Framework	device_qemu	appverify¹³⁷	RBAC
Oniro	iTrustee (TEEOS)		Distributed Virtual Framework	device_qemu¹³⁸	appverify	RBAC
Plan 9	No	No	per-process namespaces
Inferno	No	No	per-process namespaces

External links

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with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
with Linux-libre and Linux kernel /wiki/Linux-libre ↩
work in progress ↩
work in progress ↩
work in progress ↩
Pistachio supports AMD64; Fiasco only in the CVS version. ↩
Pistachio supports AMD64; Fiasco only in the CVS version. ↩
Pistachio supports AMD64; Fiasco only in the CVS version. ↩
Pistachio supports AMD64; Fiasco only in the CVS version. ↩
Pistachio supports AMD64; Fiasco only in the CVS version. ↩
Support is outdated or unmaintained. ↩
Support is outdated or unmaintained. ↩
Support is outdated or unmaintained. ↩
"The Various Ports". Plan9.bell-labs.com. Archived from the original on 14 September 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20080914030213/http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/port.html ↩
"Other hardware (Plan 9 wiki)". Plan9.bell-labs.com. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20141229194117/http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/other_hardware/ ↩
Support is outdated or unmaintained. ↩
Support is outdated or unmaintained. ↩
Support is outdated or unmaintained. ↩
Support is outdated or unmaintained. ↩
"First Driver for USB 3.0". 9 June 2009. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/First-Driver-for-USB-3.0 ↩
"Manual Pages: radeon(4)". OpenBSD.org. Retrieved 4 February 2018. https://man.openbsd.org/radeon.4 ↩
"Manual Pages: radeon(4)". OpenBSD.org. Retrieved 4 February 2018. https://man.openbsd.org/radeon.4 ↩
"Manual Pages: nv(4)". OpenBSD.org. Retrieved 4 February 2018. https://man.openbsd.org/nv.4 ↩
Larabel, Michael (21 July 2018). "NetBSD 8.0 Officially Released With USB3 Support, Security Improvements & UEFI". Phoronix. https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-8.0-Officially-Released ↩
"DragonFly Release 3.2". https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release32/ ↩
USB with DOS Archived 22 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine – Limited support for some devices provided by third-party driver. http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/newsitem/149.html ↩
USB with DOS Archived 22 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine – Limited support for some devices provided by third-party driver. http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/newsitem/149.html ↩
is not supported on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/ ↩
is not supported on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/ ↩
is not supported on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/ ↩
is not supported on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/ ↩
is not supported on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/ ↩
is not supported on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/ ↩
Proprietary Software is not officially supported on GNU system /wiki/Proprietary_software ↩
Proprietary Software is not officially supported on GNU system /wiki/Proprietary_software ↩
Proprietary Software is not officially supported on GNU system /wiki/Proprietary_software ↩
Proprietary Software is not officially supported on GNU system /wiki/Proprietary_software ↩
Proprietary Software is not officially supported on GNU system /wiki/Proprietary_software ↩
Proprietary Firmware blob is not officially supported on GNU system /wiki/Proprietary_software ↩
Proprietary Firmware blob is not officially supported on GNU system /wiki/Proprietary_software ↩
is not supported on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/ ↩
is not supported on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/ ↩
is not supported on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list/ ↩
[4] – Very limited support. http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_ReactOS#Choosing_an_installation_strategy ↩
[4] – Very limited support. http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_ReactOS#Choosing_an_installation_strategy ↩
"TV Tuner information". cconcepts.co.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2019. http://www.cconcepts.co.uk/products/tvtuner.htm ↩
NetBSD has a kernel-only PPPoE driver. ↩
OpenSolaris has support for a TUN driver with TAP support http://www.whiteboard.ne.jp/~admin2/tuntap/ ↩
firewall is not supported on Hurd kernel for now ↩
ipv6 is not supported on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/hurd/translator/pfinet/ipv6/ ↩
dhcp is partially supported on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/hurd/translator/pfinet/dhcp/ ↩
From 5.15 there is a new NTFS in-kernel driver that's supports reads and writes https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.15#New_NTFS_file_system_implementation ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
"Ufs2 write support for linux | hawking's weblog". Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 28 August 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080703173722/http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2007/04/06/ufs2_write_support_for_linux/ ↩
read/write access without journaling; HFS+ with journal either be opened read-only or be written with journal ignored (potentially corrupting the file system). ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
2.6 and later. ↩
2.6 and later. ↩
2.6 and later. ↩
2.6 and later. ↩
2.6 and later. ↩
With patch [1] Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine. http://www.namesys.com/install_v4.html ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read/Write support via NTFS-3G. /wiki/NTFS-3G ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Experimental. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read/Write support via NTFS-3G. /wiki/NTFS-3G ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read only. ↩
Read/Write support via NTFS-3G. /wiki/NTFS-3G ↩
OpenSolaris also has an in-kernel, native SMB server built directly on the ZFS DMU. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read/Write support via NTFS-3G. /wiki/NTFS-3G ↩
Read/Write support via NTFS-3G. /wiki/NTFS-3G ↩
Ext2/3 read and write support for Haiku (jvff's blog). https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/jvff ↩
Ext2/3 read and write support for Haiku (jvff's blog). https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/jvff ↩
The GSoC 2009 project assignment was never completed (Obaro Ogbo's blog Archived 17 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine). https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/4854 ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Ext3/4 is not supported on Hurd kernel for now ↩
UFS support is dropped on Hurd kernel for now http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/hurd/translator/ufs/ ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Read only kernel driver. ↩
Default in series 028. ↩
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 /wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Security_features ↩
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 /wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Security_features ↩
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 /wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Security_features ↩
LXC is a front-end to this; also see lwn.net /wiki/LXC ↩
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 /wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Security_features ↩
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 /wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Security_features ↩
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 /wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Security_features ↩
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 /wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Security_features ↩
not integrated into the operating system ↩
see here [2] for more details http://www.trustedbsd.org/mac.html ↩
ProPolice/Stack-Smashing Protector has been enabled in base system since FreeBSD 8.0 release. ↩
"bhyve". http://bhyve.org ↩
see here [3] for more details http://www.openbsd.org/security.html ↩
"vmm(4)". OpenBSD. Retrieved 14 October 2017. http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.1/vmm.4 ↩
"KVM". Joyent. Retrieved 25 August 2012. http://smartos.org/2011/08/22/its-here-kvm-on-illumos/ ↩
"RBAC". Oracle. Retrieved 28 September 2013. https://blogs.oracle.com/observatory/entry/understading_rbac ↩
openharmony/security_appverify, OpenHarmony, 6 January 2022, retrieved 1 July 2024 https://github.com/openharmony/security_appverify ↩
eclipse-oniro-mirrors/device_qemu, Eclipse Oniro Mirrors, 22 September 2023, retrieved 1 July 2024 https://github.com/eclipse-oniro-mirrors/device_qemu ↩