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Solus

Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and its flagship edition uses the Budgie desktop environment.

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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
SolusSmartOS
IndependentBaseSolaris
eopkg, flatpakPackage Managerpkgsrc
systemdInit Systemother
Rolling ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
4.9Latest Version
BeginnerDifficultyIntermediate
April 18, 2026Release DateJune 11, 2026
x86_64
Architecture
x86_64
BudgieGNOMEKDE PlasmaXfceNo Desktop
Desktops
BudgieGNOMEKDE PlasmaXfceNo Desktop