Free OS & Utility Software
Todo.txt
With Todo.txt you can track your performance in a simple text file. Todo.txt provides a simple and intuetive text-based user interface that can be used in-application or in a command line tool of your choice. With a simple but powerful shell script called todo.sh, you can interact with todo.txt at the command line for quick and easy, Unix-y access.
JingOS
JingOS is a free and open-source Linux distro designed specifically for tablets. The operating system take design ideas from iOS and iPad and brings them to Linux eco-system. It comes several basic mobile Linux apps, including Calendar, Timer, Files, Media Player, and Calculator. Yet it is still a fully functional operating system that can run Linux-based desktop apps like VS Code, Libre Office, Kdenlive and more. Allowing users to be as productive as they would on a desktop computer.
Phoenix OS
Phoenix OS is an operating system specifcally designed to bring Android gaming to the PC. The OS is based on Android 7.1 and is developed and released free and open-source. With Phoenix OS you can play your Android games on a big screen, with mouse and keyboard support thanks to Octopus keymapping engine and Game Assistant, offering a powerful fundamental keymapping.
Lubuntu
Lubuntu is a free and light-weight Linux desktop distribution developed by the Lubuntu Community. The distribution combines the stability of Ubuntu with the faster LXQt desktop to provide a snappy operating system for low-spec computers. Lubuntu has been in active development since 2011 where it was first introduced with the LXDE desktop environment.
Debian
Debian is a free and open-source operating system and GNU/Linux distribution that is openly developed by the community-supported Debian Project. The distribution was first released in 1993 and today it is the base of many other Linux-based distribution such as the popular Ubuntu. The project includes over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up for easy installation on your machine.
AlmaLinux
An open-source RHEL fork built by the team at CloudLinux, inspired by the community. As a standalone, completely free OS, AlmaLinux OS enjoys $1M in annual sponsorship from CloudLinux Inc. Wich will be dedicated to support future RHEL® releases of AlmaLinux OS and provide ongoing development efforts that are governed by the members of the community.
Guix
Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system. The operating system is released under the GNU General Public License is 100% free to use and distribute. Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs and unprivileged package management. At the core of Guix is an hackable system that provides Guile Scheme APIs that includes high-level embedded domain-specific languages to define packages and whole-system configurations.
Collapse OS
The creator or Collapse OS predicts a global supply chain collapse before the year 2030 and is building the operating system to counter such an event. Collapse OS is designed to run on minimal and improvised machines, interface through improvised means (serial, keyboard, display), edit text and binary contents, compile assembler source for a wide range of MCUs and CPUs, read and write from a wide range of storage devices and assemble itself and deploy to another machine. The goal of the project is to be as self-contained operating system that can be built without external resources like internet, on a machine of personal design, built from scavenged parts with low-tech tools.
Puppy Linux
Puppy Linux is a collection of multiple Linux distributions, built on the same shared principles, built using the same set of tools, built on top of a unique set of puppy specific applications and configurations and generally speaking provide consistent behaviours and features, no matter which flavours you choose.
Void Linux
Void Linux is an independent Linux distribution that uses the X Binary Package System package manager, which was designed and implemented from scratch, and the runit init system.
The Void (Linux) distribution. Void is a general purpose operating system, based on the monolithic Linux kernel. Its package system allows you to quickly install, update and remove software; software is provided in binary packages or can be built directly from sources with the help of the XBPS source packages collection.