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HeliumOS is a stable, lightweight, and easy-to-use operating system for your devices.

SnowflakeOS is a NixOS based Linux distribution focused on beginner friendliness and ease of use.

Dive into a new Pentesting Experience! Athena OS is an Arch-derived Linux distribution designed for penetration testing, bug-bounty hunting and InfoSec students. The distribution provides a way to connect directly to some of the e-learning hacking resources, such as Hack The Box, Offensive Security, PWNX and InfoSec certifications, and it provides integration with the Hack The Box hacking platform and connections to InfoSec communities. Athena OS also introduces InfoSec roles (e.g. Cracker Specialist, Red Teamer, Web Pentester or OSINT Specialist) based on user preferences, so the user's system is populated with relevant tools only. Use Win-KeX to immerse in the Athena OS Desktop experience! Retrieve your Hack The Box App Token from Hack The Box website in your user profile. Run "htb-toolkit -k reset" to set your Hack The Box App Token and start to hack! Learn, practice and enjoy with any hacking tool!

Windows S mode currently *NOT* supported. The Sourcecode can be found at: https://github.com/agowa338/WSL-DistroLauncher-Alpine This app runs through these steps when it is first launched: 1. Downloads the official Alpine Release from the official website (tar.gz) 2. Checks it's sha256 checksum 3. Let the windows api extract the tar.gz 4. Change permissions for / to 755 (non recursive) 5. Install some pre-requirements for better wsl integration 6. Create a user account 7. Drop the user into the Alpine Userland

This is an unofficial Fedora WSL based on the rootfs of fedora docker images with a few packages installed to make your life easy. This is an open-source project you can check out the source code at - https://github.com/VSWSL/Fedora-WSL

Install a complete Ubuntu terminal environment in minutes with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Develop cross-platform applications, improve your data science or web development workflows and manage IT infrastructure without leaving Windows. Key features: - Efficient command line utilities including bash, ssh, git, apt, npm, pip and many more - Manage Docker containers with improved performance and startup times - Leverage GPU acceleration for AI/ML workloads with NVIDIA CUDA - A consistent development to deployment workflow when using Ubuntu in the cloud - 5 years of security patching with Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) releases Ubuntu currently provides the 22.04.3 LTS release. When new LTS versions are released, Ubuntu can be upgraded once the first point release is available. This can be done from the command line by using: sudo do-release-upgrade Installation tips: - Search for "Turn Windows features on or off" in the Windows search bar and ensure that "Windows Subsystem for Linux" is turned on before restarting your machine. - To launch, use "ubuntu" on the command-line prompt or Windows Terminal, or click on the Ubuntu tile in the Start Menu. For more information about Ubuntu WSL and how Canonical supports developers please visit: https://ubuntu.com/wsl

Issues found on WSL. Contribute to microsoft/WSL development by creating an account on GitHub.

Preparing a system for Windows Subsystem for Linux

The future of mobile and desktop operating systems. ExpidusOS is a cross platform, secure, and private operating system developed by Midstall Software.

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A Completely Free, User-Friendly Operating System Packed with Educational Tools, Games, and More.

Slint is an easy-to-use, versatile, blind-friendly Linux distribution for 64-bit computers. Slint is based on Slackware and borrows tools from Salix.

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Parch Linux is an open-source, Arch-based Linux distribution, that tried to be pretty, easy to use, light, fast and stable.

The next generation cloud-native Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.

Unix-like kernel written in Rust. Contribute to llenotre/maestro development by creating an account on GitHub.

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🐱 Experimental operating system written in Rust. Contribute to mrgian/felix development by creating an account on GitHub.

Aero is a new modern, experimental, UNIX-like operating system following the monolithic kernel design. Supporting modern PC features such as long mode, 5-level paging, and SMP (multicore), to name ...

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Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system. Guix is technology that respects the freedom of computer users. You are free to run the system for any purpose, study how it works, improve it, and share it with the whole world.