The Best 29 Windows 2000 Alternatives

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    FreeBSD

    FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon™64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures.

    Free Open Source BSD Self-Hosted

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    Gentoo

    Gentoo Linux is a versatile, fast, highly configurable and completely free Linux and FreeBSD distribution geared towards developers and network professionals.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD FreeBSD

  • CentOS icon

    CentOS

    CentOS is a community-supported, free and open source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Red Hat

    Red Hat is the leader in development, deployment, and management of Linux and open source solutions for Internet infrastructure - ranging from embedded devices to secure Web servers.

    Commercial Linux

  • 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.

    Free Open Source Haiku

  • 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.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Trisquel

    Trisquel is a computer operating system, a GNU Linux distribution, derived from another distribution, Ubuntu, which is derived from Debian.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Pinguy OS

    Pinguy OS an out-of-the-box working operating system for everyone, not just geeks This OS is for people that have never used Linux before or for people that just want an out-of-the-box working OS without doing all the tweaks and...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Edubuntu

    edubuntu is an educational operating system that is a part of the ubuntu family.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Slax

    slax is a modern, portable, small and fast linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. slax is a livecd linux distribution based on slackware .

    Free Open Source Linux