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 | |
| 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 co-operative multitaslking) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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 | |||||||||
| 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 | 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 | |||||||
| 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 | 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 | ||||||
| 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 | Yes[Note 4] | Yes[Note 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 | 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][Note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 3] | Yes[19] | Yes | Yes[Note 4] | Yes | Yes[Note 3] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9P,[Note 5] FUSE,[Note 5] sysfs,[Note 5] configfs,[Note 5] Reiser4,[Note 5][Note 6] JFS, Btrfs, UnionFS, Ext4 |
| FreeBSD | Yes | Yes[Note 3][Note 2] | Yes | Yes[Note 3] | Yes[Note 1] | Yes[Note 3] | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | FUSE, nullfs, UnionFS |
| NetBSD | Yes | Yes[Note 3][Note 2] | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 3] | No | No | Yes | Yes[Note 3] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | PUFFS, LFS, EFS | ||
| OpenBSD | Yes | Yes[Note 3] | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | AFS | |
| DragonFly BSD | Yes | Yes[Note 3] | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[Note 7] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | HAMMER, nullfs, PUFFS |
| OpenSolaris, illumos | Yes | Yes [Note 2][Note 8] | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | SMB (native), QFS | |
| Darwin, OpenDarwin | Yes | Yes[Note 3][Note 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| 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 2] | Yes [Note 9] | Yes [Note 9] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[Note 10] | ||||||||||
| KolibriOS | Yes | Yes[Note 3] | Yes[Note 3] | Yes[Note 3] | Yes[Note 3] | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| MenuetOS | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| GNU | Yes | Yes | Yes[Note 11] | Yes[Note 12] | 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 3] | Yes[Note 3] | Yes[Note 3] | 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 3] | 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 13] | 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 |
- 1 2 Experimental.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Read/Write support via NTFS-3G.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 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).
- 1 2 3 4 5 2.6 and later.
- ↑ With patch Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Read only.
- ↑ OpenSolaris also has an in-kernel, native SMB server built directly on the ZFS DMU.
- 1 2 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 | ||
| 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[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] | |
| Plan 9 | No | No | per-process namespaces | |||
| Inferno | No | No | per-process namespaces |
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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 for more details
- ↑ ProPolice/Stack-Smashing Protector has been enabled in base system since FreeBSD 8.0 release.
- ↑ see here 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.
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