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Aurora

Aurora is a Fedora Silverblue-based Linux distribution with the goal of being a general-purpose workstation. It uses the KDE Plasma desktop.

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SmartOS

SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution), KVM and bhyve (two full virtualisation solutions for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9).

Technical Specs Comparison
AuroraSmartOS
FedoraBaseSolaris
flatpak / rpmPackage Managerpkgsrc
systemdInit Systemother
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
43Latest Version
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
November 19, 2025Release DateJune 11, 2026
x86_64
Architecture
x86_64
KDE PlasmaNo Desktop
Desktops
KDE PlasmaNo Desktop