Alternatives to Firejail

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    KernelCare Enterprise
    Global organizations trust TuxCare for live patching their critical Linux hosts and OT devices across their hybrid multi-cloud environments. No reboot is required to deploy and enable the TuxCare KernelCare Enterprise solutions to live patch Linux kernels and critical system libraries, including OpenSSL and Glibc. In contrast, all hosts and devices maintain the current production level uptime while receiving all security updates. TuxCare automates the patching process and eliminates the need to wait weeks or months for reboot cycles to apply patches. TuxCare currently protects over 1 million workloads worldwide. Tight integrations with popular patch management and vulnerability scanners, including Qualys, Crowdstrike, and Rapid7, enable TuxCare to fit seamlessly into existing infrastructure. The TuxCare secure patch server, ePortal, allows operations in gated and air-gapped environments. Reduce risk by significantly reducing the mean time to patch vulnerabilities
    Starting Price: $3.95 per month
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    Ubuntu

    Ubuntu

    Ubuntu

    Better security. More packages. Newer tools. All your open source, from cloud to edge. Secure your open source apps. Patch the full stack, from kernel to library and applications, for CVE compliance. Governments and auditors certify Ubuntu for FedRAMP, FISMA and HITECH. Rethink what’s possible with Linux and open source. Companies engage Canonical to drive down open source operating costs. Automate everything: multi-cloud operations, bare metal provisioning, edge clusters and IoT. Whether you’re a mobile app developer, an engineering manager, a music or video editor or a financial analyst with large-scale models to run — in fact, anyone in need of a powerful machine for your work — Ubuntu is the ideal platform. Ubuntu is used by thousands of development teams around the world because of its versatility, reliability, constantly updated features, and extensive developer libraries.
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    syzkaller
    syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer. Supports FreeBSD, Fuchsia, gVisor, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows. Initially, syzkaller was developed with Linux kernel fuzzing in mind, but now it's being extended to support other OS kernels as well. Once syzkaller detects a kernel crash in one of the VMs, it will automatically start the process of reproducing this crash. By default, it will use 4 VMs to reproduce the crash and then minimize the program that caused it. This may stop the fuzzing, since all of the VMs might be busy reproducing detected crashes. The process of reproducing one crash may take from a few minutes up to an hour depending on whether the crash is easily reproducible or non-reproducible at all.
    Starting Price: Free
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    KVM

    KVM

    Red Hat

    KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc. KVM is open source software. The kernel component of KVM is included in mainline Linux, as of 2.6.20. The userspace component of KVM is included in mainline QEMU, as of 1.3.
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    Slurm
    Slurm Workload Manager, formerly known as Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), is a free, open-source job scheduler and cluster management system for Linux and Unix-like kernels. It's designed to manage compute jobs on high performance computing (HPC) clusters and high throughput computing (HTC) environments, and is used by many of the world's supercomputers and computer clusters.
    Starting Price: Free
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    LXC

    LXC

    Canonical

    LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers. LXC containers are often considered as something in the middle between a chroot and a full fledged virtual machine. The goal of LXC is to create an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux installation but without the need for a separate kernel. LXC is free software, most of the code is released under the terms of the GNU LGPLv2.1+ license, some Android compatibility bits are released under a standard 2-clause BSD license and some binaries and templates are released under the GNU GPLv2 license. LXC's stable release support relies on the Linux distributions and their own commitment to pushing stable fixes and security updates.
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    DragonFly BSD

    DragonFly BSD

    DragonFly BSD

    DragonFly version 6.2.2 is released. The 6.2 series has hardware support for type-2 hypervisors with NVMM, an amdgpu driver, the experimental ability to remote-mount HAMMER2 volumes, and many other changes. DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating systems as other BSD-derived systems and Linux. It is based on the same UNIX ideals and APIs and shares ancestor code with other BSD operating systems. DragonFly provides an opportunity for the BSD base to grow in an entirely different direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD series. DragonFly includes many useful features that differentiate it from other operating systems in the same class. The most prominent one is HAMMER, our modern high-performance filesystem with built-in mirroring and historic access functionality. Virtual kernels provide the ability to run a full-blown kernel as a user process for the purpose of managing resources or for accelerated kernel development and debugging.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Apache Mesos

    Apache Mesos

    Apache Software Foundation

    Mesos is built using the same principles as the Linux kernel, only at a different level of abstraction. The Mesos kernel runs on every machine and provides applications (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch) with API’s for resource management and scheduling across entire datacenter and cloud environments. Native support for launching containers with Docker and AppC images.Support for running cloud native and legacy applications in the same cluster with pluggable scheduling policies. HTTP APIs for developing new distributed applications, for operating the cluster, and for monitoring. Built-in Web UI for viewing cluster state and navigating container sandboxes.
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    eLxr

    eLxr

    eLxr

    Enterprise-Grade Linux for Edge-to-Cloud Deployments. Open-Source Collaborative Project, Debian-based Linux distribution tailored for edge to cloud use cases. Ensure consistent performance and stability, whether on device, on-prem, or in the cloud. eLxr provides a secure and stable distribution, with its foundation in opensource community innovation with predictable release and update cadence, fit for long lifecycles and long-term deployments. Cater to applications with stringent timing requirements, using preempt-rt kernel configurations to prioritize low-latency responses, ensuring that tasks are executed within precise time boundaries. Achieve better determinism and predictability compared to a standard Linux kernel. eLxr relies on a smaller footprint for better performance, optimized workloads, and smaller attack surface for resource usage efficiency. It provides all required features and attributes, considering best usage of system resources.
    Starting Price: Free
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    WZSysGuard

    WZSysGuard

    WZIS Software Pty Ltd

    It's for Linux/AIX/Solaris/MacOS/FreeBSD, has the more reliable FIM function, and more effective Intrusion Detection, plus commands execution protection against software-based key-stealing attacks. WZSysGuard is a robust UNIX/Linux intrusion detection and file integrity verification software that offers advanced protection for your system. Unlike other tools, it reduces false alarms and ensures complete coverage of security-sensitive files. WZSysGuard uses a SHA 384-bit checksum algorithm to detect file changes, even those made through non-filesystem interfaces, such as during maintenance when the system is booted from a DVD or network. It not only detects critical file changes but also identifies new filesystem mounts, network services, and kernel module loads. With a web-based security trap detection interface, WZSysGuard provides a comprehensive security solution that works with minimal overhead and maximum accuracy.
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    Apple Hypervisor
    Build virtualization solutions on top of a lightweight hypervisor, without third-party kernel extensions. Hypervisor provides C APIs so you can interact with virtualization technologies in user space, without writing kernel extensions (KEXTs). As a result, the apps you create using this framework are suitable for distribution on the Mac App Store. Use this framework to create and control hardware-facilitated virtual machines and virtual processors (VMs and vCPUs) from your entitled, sandboxed, user-space process. Hypervisor abstracts virtual machines as processes, and virtual processors as threads. The Hypervisor framework requires hardware support to virtualize hardware resources. On Apple silicon, that includes the Virtualization Extensions. On Intel-based Mac computers, the framework supports machines with an Intel VT-x feature set that includes Extended Page Tables (EPT) and Unrestricted Mode.
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    fydeOS

    fydeOS

    fydeOS

    FydeOS is a lightweight operating system with a Linux kernel + browser platform + container technology driver; its use is very similar to Google Chrome OS. FydeOS can run smoothly on most mainstream hardware. Hardware devices installed with FydeOS can perfectly support the latest web application standards, are compatible with Android programs and Linux environments, and can be used in network environments in China without any obstacles, providing a Google Chromebook-like experience. FydeOS is based on the second development of The Chromium Projects. We have modified and optimized its kernel, based on the most optimized browser platform, and added more localization enhancements that conform to the habits of users in China and improve user experience. Cloud technology operating system that truly meets the needs of the Internet era. After a long time of accumulation of technology, we can make FydeOS run in more types of hardware devices and provide an overall solution around FydeOS.
    Starting Price: $12.99 per year
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    Clear Linux OS

    Clear Linux OS

    Clear Linux Project

    Clear Linux OS is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution optimized for performance and security, from the Cloud to the Edge, designed for customization, and manageability. Operate without any custom configuration, for example, a generic host with an empty /etc directory. Stateless systems strictly separate the OS configuration, the per-system configuration, and the VT user-data stored on that system. Designed so that the user is able to quickly and easily manage their custom configuration vs. system configuration. Clear Linux OS optimizes across the whole stack: the platform, kernel, math libraries, middleware layers, frameworks, and runtime. Clear Linux OS has an automated tool that is constantly scanning for CVEs, which are patched accordingly. This strict separation between User and System files allows for easier manageability and simplifying customization.
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    SystemRescue

    SystemRescue

    SystemRescue

    SystemRescue is a Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of Linux system utilities such as GParted, fsarchiver, filesystem tools and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers. This rescue system requires no installation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive or USB stick, but it can be installed on the hard disk if you wish. The kernel supports all important file systems (ext4, xfs, btrfs, vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems such as Samba and NFS.
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    wavemon

    wavemon

    wavemon

    wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application that allows you to watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and network parameters of your wireless network hardware. It should work (though with varying features) with all devices supported by the Linux kernel.
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    Tetragon

    Tetragon

    Tetragon

    Tetragon is a flexible Kubernetes-aware security observability and runtime enforcement tool that applies policy and filtering directly with eBPF, allowing for reduced observation overhead, tracking of any process, and real-time enforcement of policies. eBPF enables deep observability with low-performance overhead, mitigating risks without the latency introduced by user-space processing. Tetragon extends Cilium's design by recognizing workload identities like namespace and pod metadata, surpassing traditional observability. It offers pre-defined policy libraries for rapid deployment and operational insight, reducing setup time and complexity at scale. Tetragon blocks malicious activities at the kernel level, closing the window for exploitation without succumbing to TOCTOU attack vectors. Synchronous monitoring, filtering, and enforcement are performed entirely within the kernel using eBPF.
    Starting Price: Free
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    nono

    nono

    Always Further

    nono is an open source, kernel-enforced sandbox for AI coding agents and LLM workloads. Unlike policy-based guardrails that intercept and filter operations, nono uses OS security primitives — Landlock on Linux and Seatbelt on macOS — to make unauthorised operations structurally impossible at the syscall level. Wrap any AI agent — Claude Code, OpenCode, OpenClaw, or any CLI process — with a single command. nono applies default-deny filesystem access, blocks destructive commands (rm, dd, chmod, sudo), isolates credentials and API keys, and cascades all restrictions to child processes. No escape mechanism exists once restrictions are applied. Built-in profiles get you running in seconds. Secrets inject securely from the system keystore and are zeroised on exit. Audit logging, atomic rollbacks, and Sigstore-attested policy signing are on the roadmap. Apache 2.0. From the creator of Sigstore.
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    Kata Containers

    Kata Containers

    Kata Containers

    Kata Containers is Apache 2 licensed software consisting of two main components: the Kata agent, and the Kata Containerd shim v2 runtime. It also packages a Linux kernel and versions of QEMU, Cloud Hypervisor and Firecracker hypervisors. Kata Containers are as light and fast as containers and integrate with the container management layers—including popular orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (k8s)—while also delivering the security advantages of VMs. Kata Containers supports Linux (host and guest) for now. On the host side, we have installation instructions for several popular distributions. We also have out-of-the-box support for Clear Linux, Fedora, and CentOS 7 rootfs images through the OSBuilder which can also be used to roll your own guest images.
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    Slackware

    Slackware

    Slackware Linux

    After a long development cycle (including many betas and release candidates to get everything just exactly perfect) we're pleased to announce the availability of the new stable release. You'll find updates throughout the system, with the latest development tools and recent versions of applications, window managers, desktop environments, and utilities. The Linux kernel is updated to version 4.4.14 (part of the 4.4.x kernel series that will be getting long-term support from the kernel developers). We've brought together the best of these and other modern components and worked our magic on them. If you've used Slackware before, you'll find the system feels like home. Want to give Slackware 14.2 a test drive without modifying your disk drive? Then check out Slackware Live Edition! This is a complete Slackware installation that can run from a CD, DVD, or USB stick. Build scripts for all kinds of additional software for Slackware 14.2 are also available.
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    Edera

    Edera

    Edera

    Introducing secure-by-design AI and Kubernetes no matter where you run your infrastructure. Eliminate container escapes and put a security boundary around Kubernetes workloads. Simplify running AI/ML workloads through enhanced GPU device virtualization, driver isolation, and vGPUs. Edera Krata begins a new paradigm of isolation technology, ushering in a new era of security. Edera brings a new era of AI & GPU security and performance, while also integrating seamlessly with Kubernetes. Each container receives its own Linux kernel, eliminating a shared kernel state between containers. Which means goodbye container escapes, costly security tool layering, and long days doom scrolling logs.‍ Run Edera Protect with just a couple lines of YAML and you’re off to the races. It’s written in Rust for enhanced memory safety and has no performance impact. A secure-by-design Kubernetes solution that stops attackers in their tracks.
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    Void Linux

    Void Linux

    Void Linux

    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. It is available for a variety of platforms. Software packages can be built natively or cross compiled through the XBPS source packages collection. Unlike trillions of other existing distros, Void is not a modification of an existing distribution. Void's package manager and build system have been written from scratch. Void Linux supports both the musl and GNU libc implementations, patching incompatible software when necessary and working with upstream developers to improve the correctness and portability of their projects.
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    Embedded Linux
    Developers are much more productive on Ubuntu than handcrafted embedded Linux. Sharing a platform shares the cost. Licensing is cheaper, updates more tested and maintenance shared. Familiar and widely used Ubuntu means easy CI/CD, better tools, faster updates and better kernels. Linux is not a differentiator. Use pre-enabled boards and focus on software unique to your story. Managing a familiar environment and platform is easier and cheaper than a specialist OS. Naturally. More Linux developers choose Ubuntu, so the talent pool is deeper and broader. Tap the biggest talent pool. Ubuntu is ahead of the pack by every measure. Productivity starts with reuse. Accelerate developers with the world’s largest package selection.
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    QEMU

    QEMU

    QEMU

    QEMU is a generic and open-source machine emulator and virtualizer. Run operating systems for any machine, on any supported architecture. Run programs for another Linux/BSD target, on any supported architecture. Run KVM and Xen virtual machines with near-native performance. Guest memory dumps are now fully supported, along with pre-copy/post-copy migration and background guest snapshots. Support for nw DEVICE_UNPLUG_GUEST_ERROR to detect guest-reported hotplug failures. macOS hosts with Apple Silicon CPUs now support ‘hvf’ accelerator for AArch64 guests. M-profile MVE extension is now supported for Cortex-M55. AMD SEV guests now support measurement of kernel binary when doing direct kernel boot (not using a bootloader). Support for vhost-user and numa mem options across all boards.
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    TatukGIS

    TatukGIS

    TatukGIS

    TatukGIS offers a comprehensive GIS software development kit (Developer Kernel) and desktop applications for mapping, data editing, and geospatial analysis. The Developer Kernel supports multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, and Web, and provides extensive APIs for languages such as .NET, Delphi, Java, Python, and ActiveX. TatukGIS Editor is a powerful yet user-friendly desktop GIS tool featuring advanced geoprocessing and built-in Python scripting for automation. The platform supports all major GIS data formats and web services for seamless data integration. With royalty-free licensing, developers can distribute applications without per-user fees. Trusted by industry leaders, TatukGIS has been a reliable GIS technology partner since 2000.
    Starting Price: $3,890, incl. 1-year support
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    CloudLinux

    CloudLinux

    CloudLinux

    Stable servers reduce churn and allow you to increase density, and therefore magnify your profit. The CloudLinux OS stability features prevent resource spikes and make your servers rock-solid stable, even in the most stressful situations. CloudLinux OS protects your servers from attacks by virtualizing users’ file systems and prevent sensitive information disclosure. Our kernel-level technology prevents all known symbolic link attacks, which further enhances the security level of the servers. Secure the unsupported versions of PHP where, vulnerabilities, even if discovered, are not patched by the PHP.net community. Multiply the number of users on a more stable server with Cloudlinux OS and manage any resources limits for each customer. Troubleshooting performance problems with Detailed information on system bottlenecks, slow database queries, functions, or external calls.
    Starting Price: $7 per server per month
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    OpenWrt

    OpenWrt

    OpenWrt

    OpenWrt is a highly extensible GNU/Linux distribution for embedded devices (typically wireless routers). Unlike many other distributions for routers, OpenWrt is built from the ground up to be a full-featured, easily modifiable operating system for embedded devices. In practice, this means that you can have all the features you need with none of the bloat, powered by a modern Linux kernel. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with optional package management. This frees you from the restrictions of the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to use packages to customize an embedded device to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt provides a framework to build an application without having to create a complete firmware image and distribution around it.
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    Scuba Database Vulnerability Scanner
    Scuba Database Vulnerability Scanner. Download Scuba, a free tool that uncovers hidden security risks. Scan enterprise databases for vulnerabilities and misconfiguration. Know the risks to your databases. Get recommendations on how to mitigate identified issues. Available for Windows, Mac, Linux (x32), and Linux (x64), Scuba offers over 2,300 assessment tests for Oracle, Microsoft SQL, SAP Sybase, IBM DB2 and MySQL. Scuba is a free tool that scans leading enterprise databases for security vulnerabilities and configuration flaws, including patch levels, that allows you to uncover potential database security risks. It includes more than 2,300 assessment tests for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP Sybase, IBM DB2 and MySQL. It’s possible to run a Scuba scan from any Windows, Mac or Linux client. Depending on your database size, users, groups and network connection, an average Scuba scan normally takes 2-3 minutes. No pre-installation or other dependencies are required.
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    Cmd

    Cmd

    Cmd

    A powerful yet lightweight security platform that provides insightful observability, proactive controls, threat detection and response for your Linux infrastructure in the cloud or datacenter. Your cloud infrastructure is a massive multi-user environment. Don’t protect it with security solutions originally built for endpoints. Think beyond logging and analytics solutions that lack the necessary context and workflows for true infrastructure security. Cmd’s infrastructure detection and response platform is optimized for the needs of today’s agile security teams. View system activity in real time or search through retained data, aided by rich filters and triggers. Leverage our eBPF sensors, contextual data model and intuitive workflows to gain insight into user activity, running processes and access to sensitive resources. No advanced degree in Linux administration required. Create guardrails and controls around sensitive actions to complement traditional access management.
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    Google Cloud Security Command Center
    Security and risk management platform for Google Cloud. Understand the number of projects you have, what resources are deployed, and manage which service accounts have been added or removed. Identify security misconfigurations and compliance violations in your Google Cloud assets and resolve them by following actionable recommendations. Uncover threats targeting your resources using logs and powered by Google’s unique threat intelligence; use kernel-level instrumentation to identify potential compromises of containers. Discover and view your assets in near-real time across App Engine, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, Cloud Identity and Access Management, Google Kubernetes Engine, and more. Review historical discovery scans to identify new, modified, or deleted assets. Understand the security state of your Google Cloud assets. Uncover common web application vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting or outdated libraries in your web applications.
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    zymtrace

    zymtrace

    zymtrace

    zymtrace is a continuous profiling and observability platform designed to help engineers optimize the performance of modern computing workloads that run across both CPUs and GPUs. It provides deep system-level visibility into how applications, AI models, and infrastructure consume computing resources, allowing developers to identify inefficiencies and performance bottlenecks without modifying their code or restarting systems. Built with eBPF-based profiling technology, zymtrace collects performance data across the full execution stack, from high-level application code and runtime libraries down to the Linux kernel and GPU instructions, enabling a unified analysis of heterogeneous workloads. It correlates GPU activity with the CPU code paths that launch it, bridging a common gap in traditional observability tools that typically treat GPUs as black boxes and provide only surface-level metrics.
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    SHARK

    SHARK

    SHARK

    SHARK is a fast, modular, feature-rich open-source C++ machine learning library. It provides methods for linear and nonlinear optimization, kernel-based learning algorithms, neural networks, and various other machine learning techniques. It serves as a powerful toolbox for real-world applications as well as research. Shark depends on Boost and CMake. It is compatible with Windows, Solaris, MacOS X, and Linux. Shark is licensed under the permissive GNU Lesser General Public License. Shark provides an excellent trade-off between flexibility and ease-of-use on the one hand, and computational efficiency on the other. Shark offers numerous algorithms from various machine learning and computational intelligence domains in a way that they can be easily combined and extended. Shark comes with a lot of powerful algorithms that are to our best knowledge not implemented in any other library.
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    Unison File Synchronizer
    Unison is a file-synchronization tool for OSX, Unix, and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison runs on both Windows and many flavors of Unix (Solaris, Linux, OS X, etc.) systems. Moreover, Unison works across platforms, allowing you to synchronize a Windows laptop with a Unix server, for example. Unlike a distributed filesystem, Unison is a user-level program: there is no need to modify the kernel or to have superuser privileges on either host. Unison works between any pair of machines connected to the internet, communicating over either a direct socket link or tunneling over an encrypted ssh connection. It is careful with network bandwidth and runs well over slow links such as PPP connections.
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    Elestio

    Elestio

    Elestio

    Elestio is a fully managed DevOps platform that enables users to deploy over 350 open source software applications on dedicated virtual machines in under three minutes. It handles installation, configuration, encryption, backups, software and OS updates, live monitoring, and more, allowing users to focus on utilizing the software to its fullest potential. Elestio supports deployment on various cloud providers, including DigitalOcean, AWS, VULTR, Hetzner, Linode, Scaleway, and on-premise environments, offering flexibility and control without vendor lock-in. All services are delivered on dedicated hardware, providing full access to underlying resources and kernel-level security. Connections between the user's computer, the dashboard, and services are encrypted end-to-end with TLS, ensuring data security. It also offers a fully managed CI/CD system, supporting GitHub, GitLab, and Docker registries as sources, and is compatible with any Linux tech stack.
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    DRBD

    DRBD

    LINBIT

    DRBD® (Distributed Replicated Block Device) is an open source, software‑based, shared‑nothing block storage replication solution for Linux, designed primarily to deliver high-performance, high‑availability (HA) data services by mirroring local block devices between nodes in real time, either synchronously or asynchronously. Implemented deep in the Linux kernel as a virtual block‑device driver, DRBD ensures local read performance with efficient write‑through replication to peer(s). User‑space utilities like drbdadm, drbdsetup, and drbdmeta enable declarative configuration, metadata management, and administration across installations. Originally built for two‑node HA clusters, DRBD 9.x extends support to multi‑node replication and integration into software‑defined storage (SDS) systems such as LINSTOR, making it suitable for cloud‑native environments.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Semantic Kernel
    Semantic Kernel is a lightweight, open-source development kit that lets you easily build AI agents and integrate the latest AI models into your C#, Python, or Java codebase. It serves as an efficient middleware that enables rapid delivery of enterprise-grade solutions. Microsoft and other Fortune 500 companies are already leveraging Semantic Kernel because it’s flexible, modular, and observable. Backed with security-enhancing capabilities like telemetry support, hooks, and filters you’ll feel confident you’re delivering responsible AI solutions at scale. Version 1.0+ support across C#, Python, and Java means it’s reliable, and committed to nonbreaking changes. Any existing chat-based APIs are easily expanded to support additional modalities like voice and video. Semantic Kernel was designed to be future-proof, easily connecting your code to the latest AI models evolving with the technology as it advances.
    Starting Price: Free
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    OpenEBS

    OpenEBS

    OpenEBS

    OpenEBS builds on Kubernetes to enable Stateful applications to easily access Dynamic Local PVs or Replicated PVs. By using the Container Attached Storage pattern users report lower costs, easier management, and more control for their teams. OpenEBS is a 100% Open Source CNCF project made by MayaData & the community. Prominent users include Arista, Optoro, Orange, Comcast and the CNCF itself. Automated provisioning and storage replication across pods is challenging. OpenEBS makes complex cross-cloud stateful application storage easy. Unlike CSI plugins or Linux kernel dependent software, OpenEBS runs entirely in userspace, making deployment and maintenance a snap. The largest, most active Kubernetes storage project with the biggest user base and community, OpenEBS is built by K8s SREs, and experts just like you, tailored to their needs. OpenEBS orchestrates storage for any Kubernetes stack.
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    Wind River Workbench

    Wind River Workbench

    Wind River Systems

    Wind River Workbench is a complete suite of developer tools for software running on Wind River platforms. It's everything you need to quickly configure your operating system, analyze and tune your software, and debug an entire system. Tailor your operating system image with Workbench's visual Kernel Configurator for Wind River Linux and VxWorks®. Peer deep inside your platform's application code, third-party libraries, and operating system using Workbench's dynamic and visual analysis tools. Workbench uses a target agent connection for a debugging solution capable of taming the most complex systems across your development lifecycle.
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    eLux

    eLux

    Unicon

    eLux® is an ultra light-weight, Linux-based, hardware agnostic, highly secure x86 end-point operating system purpose-built to help companies scale, and secure their end-user computing in complex VDI, DaaS environments. About eLux: Scale, Manage and Secure Your End-user Computing. Companies today need a lean, secure OS that powers end-point devices operating in increasingly complex environments, running an ever-growing stack of virtual applications and desktops. IT departments need an easy-to-manage, resource friendly end-point OS that can provide end-users access to their virtual desktops and digital workspaces anytime, anywhere. Large enterprises and businesses of all sizes can make use of our Linux-based OS to deliver a consistent employee experience to their diverse, distributed and mobile workforce that meets business needs and also fulfills newer ways of working.
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    Neptune OS

    Neptune OS

    Neptune

    Neptune is a GNU/Linux Distribution for desktops based fully upon Debian Stable ('Buster'), except for a newer kernel and some drivers. It ships with a modern KDE Plasma Desktop with its main view on a good looking multimedia system which allows for getting work done. It also is a system which is flexible and very useful on usb sticks. Therefore we developed easy to use applications like USB Installer as well as a Persistent Creator that allows you to store changes to your system on your live usb stick. The Debian repository is the major base for getting updates and new software. Furthermore Neptune ships with its own software repository to update our own applications. Neptune tries to get the BeOS message of a fully supported multimedia OS to a next generation of users. Neptunes focuses on providing an elegant out of the box experience for the users. Therefore we ship a nice and simple overall look and feel as well as a whole bunch of multimedia tools, like codecs, flash player, etc.
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    Puppy Linux

    Puppy Linux

    Puppy Linux

    Puppy Linux is a unique family of Linux distributions meant for the home-user computers. Ready to use, all tools for common daily computing usage already included. Ease of use, grandpa-friendly certified. Relatively small size, 300 MB or less. Fast and versatile. Customizable within minutes, remasters. Different flavours, optimized to support older computers, newer computers. Variety, hundreds of derivatives (“puplets”), one of which will surely meet your needs. Puppy Linux is not a single Linux distribution like Debian. Puppy Linux is also not a Linux distribution with multiple flavours, like Ubuntu (with its variants of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc) though it also comes in flavours. 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.
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    openSUSE Tumbleweed

    openSUSE Tumbleweed

    openSUSE Project

    You install it once and enjoy it forever. No longer do you have to worry every six months about massive system upgrades that risk bricking your system. You get frequent updates that not only address vulnerabilities or squash bugs, but reflect latest features and developments, such as fresh kernels, fresh drivers and recent desktop environment versions. Updates are thoroughly tested against industry-grade quality standards, taking advantage of a build service other Linux distributions envy us. Not only is each new version of a package individually tested, but different clusters of versions are are tested against each other, making sure your system is internally consistent. With a single command you can update thousands of packages, rollback to last week’s snapshot, fast-forward again, and even preview upcoming releases.
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    Nucleus RTOS

    Nucleus RTOS

    Siemens Digital Industries Software

    Nucleus® RTOS enables system developers to address the complex requirements demanded by today’s advanced embedded designs. Nucleus brings together kernel-rich functionality and tooling features ideal for applications where a scalable footprint, connectivity, security, power management, and deterministic performance are essential. Nucleus RTOS is a proven, reliable, and fully optimized RTOS. Nucleus has been successfully deployed in highly demanding markets with rigorous safety and security requirements such as industrial systems, medical devices, airborne systems, automotive and more. Stable deterministic kernel with a small memory footprint. A lightweight process model for optimized memory partitioning. Dynamically load and unload processes for greater modularity of applications.
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    MayaData

    MayaData

    MayaData

    OpenEBS with Kubera is the answer. OpenEBS is the most popular open source storage for Kubernetes - and the fastest. Kubera adds an easy to use GUI for OpenEBS Mayastor - and APIs, auto checks and configuration, active directory authentication, built-in performance benchmarking, and additional operators to assist in upgrades and other use cases. Kubera is freely available and is delivered by MayaData when providing 24/7 support for customers to reduce operational costs and complexity. Kubera Propel is a cloud-native declarative data plane written in Rust. It’s built on the open source OpenEBS Mayastor. Kubera Propel combines breakthrough technologies like NVMe, SPDK, and emerging new storage features in the Linux kernel. OpenEBS managed by Kubera Propel has been shown independent benchmarks to deliver extremely low latency performance for data bases and other workloads running on Kubernetes.
    Starting Price: $100 per node per month
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    Zephyr

    Zephyr

    Zephyr

    From simple embedded environmental sensors and LED wearables to sophisticated embedded controllers, smart watches, and IoT wireless applications. Implements configurable architecture-specific stack-overflow protection, kernel object and device driver permission tracking, and thread isolation with thread-level memory protection on x86, ARC, and ARM architectures, userspace, and memory domains. For platforms without MMU/MPU and memory constrained devices, supports combining application-specific code with a custom kernel to create a monolithic image that gets loaded and executed on a system’s hardware. Both the application code and kernel code execute in a single shared address space.
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    Minoca OS
    Minoca OS is an open-source, general purpose operating system designed specifically for feature-rich embedded devices. It's got all the high-level functionality that you've come to expect from an operating system, but offers it in a fraction of the memory footprint. The driver API separates device drivers from the kernel, enabling driver binaries to remain compatible even when the kernel is updated. Driver separation allows for automatic loading and unloading of device drivers on demand. Hardware layer API allows for a single unified kernel, even on ARM. No need to maintain a separate kernel fork. A unified power management architecture allows for smarter power management decisions, leading to better device battery life. Fewer background tasks and wake-ups from idle means machines can reach deeper idle states and save even more power. Proprietary and non-GPL source licenses are available, keeping options open for your customers and end users.
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    Vega

    Vega

    Subgraph

    Vega can help you find and validate SQL Injection, cross-site scripting, inadvertently disclosed sensitive information, and other vulnerabilities. It is written in Java, GUI based, and runs on Linux, OS X, and Windows. Vega can help you find vulnerabilities such as: reflected cross-site scripting, stored cross-site scripting, blind SQL injection, remote file include, shell injection, and others. Vega also probes for TLS / SSL security settings and identifies opportunities for improving the security of your TLS servers. Vega includes an automated scanner for quick tests and an intercepting proxy for tactical inspection. The Vega scanner finds, SQL injection, and other vulnerabilities. Vega includes a website crawler powering its automated scanner. Vega can automatically log into websites when supplied with user credentials.
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    WireGuard

    WireGuard

    Edge Security

    WireGuard® is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN for running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for many different circumstances. Initially released for the Linux kernel, it is now cross-platform (Windows, macOS, BSD, iOS, Android) and widely deployable. It is currently under heavy development, but already it might be regarded as the most secure, easiest to use, and simplest VPN solution in the industry. WireGuard aims to be as easy to configure and deploy as SSH. A VPN connection is made simply by exchanging very simple public keys – exactly like exchanging SSH keys – and all the rest is transparently handled by WireGuard. It is even capable of roaming between IP addresses, just like Mosh.
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    KubeSphere

    KubeSphere

    KubeSphere

    KubeSphere is a distributed operating system for cloud-native application management, using Kubernetes as its kernel. It provides a plug-and-play architecture, allowing third-party applications to be seamlessly integrated into its ecosystem. KubeSphere is also a multi-tenant enterprise-grade open-source Kubernetes container platform with full-stack automated IT operations and streamlined DevOps workflows. It provides developer-friendly wizard web UI, helping enterprises to build out a more robust and feature-rich Kubernetes platform, which includes the most common functionalities needed for enterprise Kubernetes strategies. A CNCF-certified Kubernetes platform, 100% open-source, built and improved by the community. Can be deployed on an existing Kubernetes cluster or Linux machines, supports the online and air-gapped installation. Deliver DevOps, service mesh, observability, application management, multi-tenancy, storage, and networking management in a unified platform.
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    Kernel

    Kernel

    Kernel Knowledge Management

    Kernel is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application that lets you build your second brain one atomic note at a time. It is like your personal knowledge companion, designed for modern thinkers, learners, and doers. With Kernel you can effortlessly capture valuable insights from any source—books, podcasts, videos, and beyond—as clear atomic notes. Kernel then ensures your notes are linked by common attributes such as sources, folders and tags, enabling quick discovery of related knowledge, deepening insights and enhancing creativity. Its straightforward design and support for methods like PARA (Projects, Areas, Resources and Archives) make Kernel uniquely suited to people who want to enhance their learning and cultivate their own personal knowledge base.
    Starting Price: $10 per user, per month
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    Arachni

    Arachni

    Arachni

    Arachni is a feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of modern web applications. It is free, with its source code public and available for review. It is multi-platform, supporting all major operating systems (MS Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) and distributed via portable packages which allow for instant deployment. It is versatile enough to cover a great deal of use cases, ranging from a simple command line scanner utility, to a global high performance grid of scanners, to a Ruby library allowing for scripted audits, to a multi-user multi-scan web collaboration platform. In addition, its simple REST API makes integration a cinch. Finally, due to its integrated browser environment, it can support highly complicated web applications which make heavy use of technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, DOM manipulation and AJAX.