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BigLinux

BigLinux is a Brazilian Linux distribution localised into Brazilian Portuguese (with support for English). It is was originally based on Kubuntu, but starting from 2017 the distribution was re-born based on deepin.

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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
BigLinuxSmartOS
Arch, ManjaroBaseSolaris
pacman / pkg, flatpak, snapPackage Managerpkgsrc
systemdInit Systemother
Rolling ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
12.04Latest Version
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
July 28, 2012Release DateJune 11, 2026
x86_64
Architecture
x86_64
KDE PlasmaNo Desktop
Desktops
KDE PlasmaNo Desktop