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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).

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CuerdOS

CuerdOS is a Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution with focus on stability, efficiency and performance. It comes with a series of optimisations, such as performance and memory consumption improvements.

Technical Specs Comparison
SmartOSCuerdOS
SolarisBaseDebian (Stable)
pkgsrcPackage Managerdeb, flatpak
otherInit Systemsystemd
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
Latest Version2.1
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
June 11, 2026Release DateApril 1, 2026
x86_64
Architecture
x86_64
No DesktopKDE PlasmalabwcSwayXfce
Desktops
No DesktopKDE PlasmalabwcSwayXfce