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Nobara Project

Nobara Project is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it. The distribution comes with certain features that do not ship with the regular Fedora, such as WINE dependencies, OBS Studio, 3rd party codec packages for GStreamer, NVIDIA drivers, and some package fixes.

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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
Nobara ProjectSmartOS
FedoraBaseSolaris
rpmPackage Managerpkgsrc
systemdInit Systemother
Rolling ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
Latest Version
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
December 27, 2025Release DateJune 11, 2026
x86_64
Architecture
x86_64
GNOMEKDE PlasmaNo Desktop
Desktops
GNOMEKDE PlasmaNo Desktop