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24 alternatives to Fedora Linux 45

GNOME 51: Wayland fixes, oo7 keys, and modern toolchains.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Naarchy▲69

    A little island for everything on your Linux desktop

    Oct 2026 · michaelchurley.com · its alternatives →

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    GNOME 51, Rust coreutils, and a refreshed Linux desktop

    21d ago · documentation.ubuntu.com · its alternatives →

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    And how to fix them with Justin Searls

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    Frankly▲101

    A dashboard of issues and PRs across GitHub repositories.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A minimalist distribution of Linux

    2015 · rancher.com · its alternatives →

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    Microsoft's interest in open source and Sean's progress imp…

    2015 · bikeshed.thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Show your stack! The social home for your dev tools

    Sep 2026 · stackness.dev · its alternatives →

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    Turn GitHub into a project management suite! Plus, socks

    2015 · app.zenhub.com · its alternatives →

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    and the open source Codes of Conduct

    2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →

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    A Complete Introduction

    2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro

    2016 · apricityos.com · its alternatives →

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    Keybase filesystem

    2016 · book.keybase.io · its alternatives →

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    I spent the past few weeks making an open source cloud code editing environment with an AI copilot and multiplayer collaboration! It's fully self-hostable in 5-10 minutes. There's a lot of minor improvements to be made, and some are already listed in the Github issues. Let me know what you think and feel free to try it out.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This is a personal project I've been working on and off for the past few years. It's a set of tools that have allowed me to prototype quickly small (and increasingly bigger) kernels, and create userspace programs to interact with them. Supports riscv64, amd64 and i386. The intel port has been tested and used on real hardware, from big dual-socket Xeon machines to an old X220. It is all C, I have plan to make rust bindings for the kernel library. But again, they're plans at this stage. Porting to new architectures is relatively simple, a basic port to riscv took me a couple of weeks of…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free.

    2016 · labex.io · its alternatives →

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    Open Source Identity and Access Management

    2017 · keycloak.org · its alternatives →

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    Scoop▲3

    A command-line installer for Windows

    2019 · scoop.sh · its alternatives →

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    A free BIOS or UEFI replacement

    2016 · minifree.org · its alternatives →

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    Cash▲4

    Cross-platform Linux without the suck

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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