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blendOS

blendOS is an Arch Linux-based, rolling-release distribution which automates installing software from supported distributions (Arch Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu) into containers. blendOS tries to make software management in across containers feel native and provides access to the user's home directory for each container.

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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
blendOSSmartOS
ArchBaseSolaris
pacman / flatpak, pkgPackage Managerpkgsrc
systemdInit Systemother
Rolling ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
3Latest Version
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
July 8, 2023Release DateJune 11, 2026
x86_64
Architecture
x86_64
GNOMENo Desktop
Desktops
GNOMENo Desktop