Chromium OS Alternatives

Chromium OS is described as 'Open-source project, used primarily by developers, that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web' and is a operating system in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Chromium OS for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Self-Hosted, Windows and Mac apps. The best Chromium OS alternative is Linux Mint, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chromium OS are Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Arch Linux.

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  1. Porteus icon
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    Porteus is a complete linux operating system that is optimized to run from CD, USB flash drive, hard drive, or other bootable storage media. It's small (under 300Mb) and insanely fast which allows you to start up and get online while most other operating systems are left...

    26 Porteus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  2. Endless OS icon
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    Endless OS is a Linux-based operating system which provides a simplified and streamlined user experience using a customized desktop environment forked from GNOME 3. Rather than using a traditional Linux package management system, Endless OS uses a read-only root file system...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  3. Edubuntu icon
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    Edubuntu is an Ubuntu-based operating system that's designed for educational use in schools and other educational institutions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  4. pearOS icon
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    pearOS is a linux distribution that aims for UI and UX, offering a mac like feeling, now even on older PCs. Why hackintosh when you can pearintosh?

    46 pearOS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
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  5. SUSE is the original provider of the enterprise Linux distribution and the most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing. It's the only Linux recommended by VMware, Microsoft and SAP. And it's supported on more hardware and software than any other enterprise...

    149 SUSE Linux Enterprise alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  6. BunsenLabs icon
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    BunsenLabs Linux is a distribution offering a light-weight and easily customizable Openbox desktop. The current release is Helium, built on top of Debian (stable). The project is a community continuation of CrunchBang Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  7. NomadBSD icon
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    NomadBSD is a persistent live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data...

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    • BSD
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  8. OpenThos icon
     20 likes

    OpenThos is a free, open source OS project based on Android-x86, the operating system has Desktop GUI. The source code is available on GitHub. You can choose English Language when attempting to install the OS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. WattOS icon
     10 likes

    wattOS is a fast desktop Linux distribution based on Debian. Using the lightweight Openbox window manager as its default user interface, the distribution strives to be as energy-efficient as possible...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  10. PCLinuxOS icon
     28 likes

    PCLinuxOS is a free easy to use Linux-based Operating System for desktops or laptops.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. Pardus icon
     24 likes

    Pardus is a GNU/Linux distribution funded and developed by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK). Pardus’ main focus is home use and office-related work with a user-friendly graphical interface using Gnome or Xfce desktop environments.

    125 Pardus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  12. Dynebolic icon
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    Free software operating system for media activists, artists and creatives. Dynebolic is as a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, having automatically recognised most...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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