Top 15 AmigaOS Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

AmigaOS is the proprietary native operating system of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers, introduced with the launch of the first Amiga, the Amiga 1000, in 1985.

The most recent release is AmigaOS 4.1, developed by Hyperion Entertainment, which received in 2009 by Amiga Inc. an exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to AmigaOS 3.1 in order to develop and market AmigaOS 4 and subsequent versions.

1. MorphOS

MorphOS MorphOS is a lightweight, highly efficient and flexible desktop operating system. It includes primarily proprietary as well as open - source components. Its many features range from a modern exceptionally customizable graphical user interface, which can utilize 3D hardware acceleration, to a high-performance Just-in-Time compiler that emulates the 68k family......

2. AROS

AROS The AROS Research Operating System is a lightweight, efficient, and flexible desktop operating system, designed to help you make the most of your computer. It's an independent, portable and free project, aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS at the API level (like Wine, unlike UAE), while improving on it in......

3. AmigaOS 3.9

AmigaOS 3.9 The AmigaOS look and feel, though still largely based on the earlier 3.1 release was revised somewhat, with an improved user interface based on ReAction, improved icon rendering and official support for true color backdrops. These releases included support for existing third-party GUI enhancements, such as NewIcons, by integrating these......

4. AmigaOS 3.1

AmigaOS 3.1 This version was originally shipped with the Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000 computers. Version added datatypes support and Workbench could load any background image in any format if the required datatype was installed. This feature was also used in Multiview. Its capabilities were directly related to the datatypes installed in......

5. SliTaz

SliTaz SliTaz GNU/Linux LiveCD operating system. "SliTaz is a free operating system, working completely in RAM and booting from removable media such as a cdrom or USB key. SliTaz is distributed as a LiveCD, and weighs less than 30MB. The system is quick and responsive, clean and robust. SliTaz is simple......

6. Bodhi Linux

Bodhi Linux A minimalistic Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and the Enlightenment desktop environment.Bodhi Linux is a Linux Distribution leveraging the fast, customizable, and beautiful Enlightenment Desktop. Enlightenment coupled with a minimal set of utilities such as a browser, text editor, and package management......

7. Cr OS Linux

Cr OS Linux Cr OS Linux (pronounced like Cros Linux) is the free OS built around the revolutionary Chromium browser - a foundation for Google Chrome. We call it the chrome plated OS, because it is stable and shiny. It includes GNOME desktop environment, Google Music Manager, Picasa, LibreOffice, GIMP, Pidgin,......

8. ReactOS

ReactOS ReactOS is a free, modern operating system in alpha stage, based on the design of Windows XP/2003. Written completely from scratch, it aims to follow the Windows architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. This is not a Linux based system, and shares......

9. Webconverger

Webconverger Webconverger is a Linux-based operating system designed by Kai Hendry to be used solely for accessing web applications, first released in 2007. It is based on the Debian distro and is live, being able to boot from various media like a CD-ROM and a USB flash drive, and can be......

10. Haiku

Haiku Haiku is a new open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.......

11. Win7PE SE

Win7PE SE Live CD/DVD that can be built from either Windows 7 or Windows Vista sources.......

12. Musix

Musix Musix, a GNU+Linux distribution based on Knoppix, with special emphasis on audio production.......

13. Knoppix

Knoppix Knoppix is an operating system based on Debian designed to be run directly from a CD / DVD (Live CD) or a USB key (Live USB), one of the first of its kind for any operating system. When starting a program, it is loaded from the removable medium and decompressed......

14. Legacy OS

Legacy OS Puppy Linux Documentation Wiki - it is a Wikka......

15. Dynebolic

Dynebolic 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 device and peripherals: audio, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb......