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 versionNote 1 | Forks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AROS | APL | Exokernel | C | AmigaOS | No | ||
| Darwin, OpenDarwin | APSL | Hybrid | C, C++Note 2 | 1:1 | BSD, Unix, Unix-like, OS X | No | PureDarwin |
| DragonFly BSD | BSD | Hybrid | C | 1:1 | BSD, Unix-like | No | |
| eCos | modified GPL, eCos | RTOS | C, C++ | RTOS | No | ||
| E/OS | GPLv2 | Monolithic | ASM, C | 1:1 | BeOS, Unix-like | No | |
| FreeBSD | BSD; GPL, LGPL software usually included | Monolithic with modules | C | 1:1 | BSD, Unix-like | 13.5 | DragonFly BSD |
| FreeDOS | GPL | Monolithic | C | DOS | 1.1 | ||
| FreeRTOS | MIT | RTOS | C | RTOS | No | ||
| Genode | AGPL | Microkernel | C++ | 1:1 | Genode | ||
| 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 |
| Haiku | MIT | Hybrid | C, C++ | BeOS | No | TiltOS | |
| 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) |
| HelenOS | BSD | Microkernel | C | M:N | own/original | No | |
| House | BSD | Haskell | own/original | No | |||
| Inferno | GPL, LGPL; MIT | C | Plan 9 | No | OzInferno | ||
| KolibriOS | GPL | Monolithic | ASM | MenuetOS | No | ||
| L4, Fiasco, Pistachio | Some GPL, some BSD | Microkernel | C++ | L4 | No | ||
| Linux | GPL version 2 only | Monolithic with modules | C | 1:1 | Unix-like | 4.4 | elks |
| MenuetOS | Menuet 64,12 commerce excluded, GPL v23(Menuet 32) | Monolithic | ASM | own/original | No | KolibriOS | |
| MINIX | BSD | Microkernel | C | Unix-like | No | ||
| NetBSD | BSD | Monolithic with modules | C | 1:1 | BSD, Unix-like | 7.0 | OpenBSD |
| NuttX | BSD | RTOS | C | RTOS | No | ||
| 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 | |
| OpenBSD | BSD | Monolithic | C | 1:1 | BSD, Unix-like | 6.4Dragon | MirOS |
| OpenSolaris | CDDL | Monolithic with modules | C | 1:1, M:N | Unix | No | illumos |
| osFree4 | BSD, GPL, LGPL | Microkernel5 | C, C++, Assembly, Makefile, IGOR Pro6 | OS/2-like7 | No | ||
| Plan 9 | MIT | Hybrid | C | 1:1, 1:M Cothread style. | own, Unix informed | No | Inferno, Plan B, 9front |
| ReactOS | GPL, LGPL | Hybrid | C, C++ | Windows-like | No | ||
| RedoxOS | MIT | Microkernel | Rust | Unix-like | No | ||
| RISC OS | Apache 2.0 | Monolithic (with cooperative multitasking) | ARM assembly, C, BBC BASIC | RISC OS | No | RISC OS 6 | |
| 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 | |
| Syllable | GPL | Hybrid8 | C, C++ | 1:1 | Unix-like, BeOS, AmigaOS, POSIX | 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 |
- No for single line development model.
- For I/O Kit.
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 | Elbrus | LoongArch | SuperH | z/Architecture | others | hosted mode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | FR-V, Cell, ETRAX CRIS, M32R, Xtensa, h8, s390, SuperH | UML, coLinux, MkLinux, Itanium Linux-on-Linux, wombat |
| FreeBSD9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | PC98 | |
| OpenBSD10 | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | ||
| NetBSD11 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | SuperH, ns32k, VAX, hppa, M68010, mipseb, mipsel, sh3eb, sh3el, sparc64 | |
| DragonFly BSD12 | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | vkernel | |
| OpenSolaris13 illumos | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
| Darwin, OpenDarwin14 | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | L4/Darwin | |
| OpenHarmony | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
| Oniro | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
| MINIX15 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| FreeDOS | Yes | No | No | No | No | 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 | No | No | No | No | RISC-V | Linux |
| Haiku | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes16 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | RISC-V | |
| KolibriOS | Yes | No | No | No | No | 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 | No | No | No | No | ||
| GNU | Yes | Yes | Yes | YesNote 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | FR-V, Cell, ETRAX CRIS, M32R, Xtensa, h8, s390, SuperHNote 1 | UML, Itanium Linux-on-LinuxNote 2 |
| ReactOS | Yes | Yes | NoNote 3 | No | Yes | NoNote 3 | NoNote 3 | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| RISC OS | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Genode | |
| L4, Pistachio | Yes | No | No | YesNote 4 | YesNote 4 | YesNote 4 | No | No | No | YesNote 4 | YesNote 4 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Genode | |
| Plan 9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | YesNote 5 | YesNote 5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | YesNote 5 | No | No | No | No | No | No | See1718 | lguest, vx32 |
| AROS | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | i386-linux, i386-freebsd | |
| Syllable | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| Inferno | Yes | ? | No | No | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | YesNote 5 | No | No | No | No | 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 | No | No | Yes | 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 | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | CalmRISC, ColdFire, FR-V, h8, Matsushita AM3x, Nios II, NEC V8xx | Microsoft Windows, Linux |
| RTEMS | Yes | No | Xen | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Blackfin, Nios II, Coldfire, Texas Instruments C3x/C4x, 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 | No | No | Yes | No | ||
| E/OS | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| TempleOS | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 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 | Elbrus | LoongArch | SuperH | z/Architecture | other | hosted mode |
- with Linux-libre kernel and others, but not on Hurd kernel
- with Linux-libre and Linux kernel
- work in progress
- Pistachio supports AMD64; Fiasco only in the CVS version.
- 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+19 | 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 | Yes20 | 2d only20 | 2d only21 | Yes | Yes |
| NetBSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 8.0+22 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||
| DragonFly BSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes23 | 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 | No24 | No24 | 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 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | Yes | NoNote 2 | NoNote 2 | NoNote 2 | NoNote 2 | NoNote 2 | NoNote 3 | NoNote 3 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | |
| ReactOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes25 | Yes25 | 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 tuner26 |
| 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 |
- is not supported on Hurd kernel for now
- Proprietary Software is not officially supported on GNU system
- 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 | YesNote 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 | YesNote 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 | 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 | YesNote 4 | YesNote 5 | 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 |
- NetBSD has a kernel-only PPPoE driver.
- OpenSolaris has support for a TUN driver with TAP support
- firewall is not supported on Hurd kernel for now
- ipv6 is not supported on Hurd kernel for now
- dhcp is partially supported on Hurd kernel for now
Supported file systems
| Name | Bcachefs | BFS | FAT16, dosfs; FAT32, vfat | NTFS | Ext2 | Ext3 | XFS | ReiserFS | UFS | UFS2 | HFS | HFS+ | MINIXfs | ISO 9660 | UDF | NFS | SMBFS | RAM disk, tmpfs | ZFS | Other special file systems |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Yes | YesNote 1 | Yes | YesNote 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | YesNote 1 | Yes27 | Yes | YesNote 3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9P,Note 4 FUSE,Note 4 sysfs,Note 4 configfs,Note 4 Reiser4,Note 4Note 5 JFS, Btrfs, UnionFS, Ext4 |
| FreeBSD | No | No | Yes | YesNote 1Note 6 | Yes | YesNote 1 | YesNote 7 | YesNote 1 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | FUSE, nullfs, UnionFS |
| NetBSD | No | No | Yes | YesNote 1Note 6 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | YesNote 1 | No | Yes | YesNote 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | PUFFS, LFS, EFS | ||
| OpenBSD | No | No | Yes | YesNote 1 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | AFS | |
| DragonFly BSD | No | No | Yes | YesNote 1 | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | YesNote 8 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | HAMMER, nullfs, PUFFS |
| OpenSolaris, illumos | No | No | Yes | Yes Note 6Note 9 | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | SMB (native), QFS | |
| Darwin, OpenDarwin | No | Yes | YesNote 1Note 6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| OpenHarmony | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ex4, F2FS, EROFS, HMDFS |
| Oniro | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ex4, F2FS, EROFS, HMDFS |
| MINIX | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| FreeDOS | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Genode | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Extensible VFS layer |
| Haiku | No | Yes | Yes | Yes Note 6 | Yes Note 10 | Yes Note 10 | Yes | Yes | Yes | NoNote 11 | ||||||||||
| KolibriOS | No | Yes | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| MenuetOS | No | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| GNU | YesNote 12 | Yes | Yes | YesNote 12 | YesNote 13 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||||||||||
| ReactOS | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |||||||||||
| L4, Fiasco, Pistachio | No | Yes | No | |||||||||||||||||
| Plan 9 | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Fossil, Venti, most system services | |
| AROS | No | Yes | Yes | SFS, AFFS | ||||||||||||||||
| Syllable | No | Yes | Yes | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | YesNote 1 | Yes | Yes | AFS | |||||||||||
| Inferno | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | kfs, most system services | |
| FreeRTOS | No | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| eCos | No | Yes | YesNote 1 | Yes | MMFS, ROMfs, JFFS2, YAFFS | |||||||||||||||
| RTEMS | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | TarFS, TFTP FS, IMFS, miniIMFS | |||||||||||||||
| HelenOS | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | locfs, exFAT | |
| E/OS | No | YesNote 14 | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Name | Bcachefs | BFS | FAT16, dosfs; FAT32, vfat | NTFS | Ext2 | Ext3 | XFS | ReiserFS | UFS | UFS2 | HFS | HFS+ | MINIXfs | ISO 9660 | UDF | NFS | SMBFS | RAM disk, tmpfs | ZFS | Other special file systems |
- Read only kernel driver.
- From 5.15 there is a new NTFS in-kernel driver that's supports reads and writes
- read/write access without journaling; HFS+ with journal either be opened read-only or be written with journal ignored (potentially corrupting the file system).
- 2.6 and later.
- With patch [1] Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
- Read/Write support via NTFS-3G.
- Experimental.
- Read only.
- OpenSolaris also has an in-kernel, native SMB server built directly on the ZFS DMU.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | SELinux, AppArmorNote 1 | Exec Shield,Note 1 PaXNote 1 | Chroot, namespace and cgroups,Note 2 Linux-VServer,Note 1 OpenVZNote 1 | KVM | IPFilter, Iptables | grsecurity,Note 1 RSBACNote 1 |
| FreeBSD | SeBSD,Note 3Note 4 TrustedBSD | ProPolice/SSPNote 5 | jail | bhyve28 | IPFW, PF, IPFilter | |
| Darwin | SEDarwin, TrustedBSD | jail | IPFW | |||
| OpenBSD | W^X, ProPolice/SSPNote 6 | vmm29 | PF | |||
| OpenSolaris, illumos | TrustedBSD | Solaris Containers | KVM30 | IPFilter | RBAC31 | |
| OpenHarmony | iTrustee (TEEOS) | Distributed Virtual Framework | device_qemu | appverify32 | RBAC | |
| Oniro | iTrustee (TEEOS) | Distributed Virtual Framework | device_qemu33 | appverify | RBAC | |
| 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 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
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
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