List of operating systems ( 100105 )

List of operating systems

Desktop and Server Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows

1. Windows 1.0 (1985)
2. Windows 2.0 (1987)
3. Windows 3.0 (1990)
4. Windows 3.1 / 3.11 (1992–1993)
5. Windows 95 (1995)
6. Windows 98 (1998)
7. Windows Me (Millennium Edition) (2000)
8. NT-Based (Modern Core) 8. Windows NT 3.1 (1993)
9. Windows NT 3.5 / 3.51 (1994–1995)
10. Windows NT 4.0 (1996)
11.  Windows 2000 (NT 5.0)
12. Windows XP (2001)
13. Windows Vista (2007)
14. Windows 7 (2009)
15. Windows 8 (2012)
16. Windows 8.1 (2013)
17. Windows 10 (2015)
18. Windows 11 (2021)

Apple macOS

Classic Mac OS (Pre-2001)

• System 1 (1984)
• System 2 (1985)
• System 3 (1986)
• System 4 (1987)
• System 5 (1987)
• System 6 (1988)
• System 7 (1991)
• Mac OS 8 (1997)
• Mac OS 9 (1999) – Last Classic OS before macOS

Mac OS X (2001–2011)

• Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah (2001)
• Mac OS X 10.1 Puma (2001)
• Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar (2002)
• Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (2003)
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (2005)
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (2007)
• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (2009)

OS X (2012–2015)

• OS X 10.7 Lion (2011)
• OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (2012)
• OS X 10.9 Mavericks (2013)
• OS X 10.10 Yosemite (2014)
• OS X 10.11 El Capitan (2015)

macOS (2016–Present)

• macOS 10.12 Sierra (2016)
• macOS 10.13 High Sierra (2017)
• macOS 10.14 Mojave (2018)
• macOS 10.15 Catalina (2019)
• macOS 11 Big Sur (2020) – Major design update, Apple Silicon support
• macOS 12 Monterey (2021)
• macOS 13 Ventura (2022)
• macOS 14 Sonoma (2023)
• macOS 15 (Expected 2024, name TBA at WWDC)

Linux Distributions

• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Fedora
• Arch Linux
• CentOS
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• openSUSE
• Linux Mint
• Kali Linux
• Pop!_OS

UNIX Systems

• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• NetBSD
• Solaris (Oracle Solaris)
• AIX (IBM)
• HP-UX

Mobile Operating Systems

• Android (Google)
• iOS (Apple)
• HarmonyOS (Huawei)
• KaiOS
• Tizen
• Windows Phone
• BlackBerry OS
• Symbian OS
• Fire OS (Amazon)
• LineageOS (custom Android fork)

Embedded & Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)

• VxWorks
• FreeRTOS
• QNX
• RTEMS
• eCos
• Zephyr OS
• TinyOS

Gaming Console Operating Systems

• Xbox OS (Microsoft)
• Orbis OS (Sony PlayStation)
• Nintendo Switch OS
• SteamOS (Valve, Linux-based)

Cloud & Specialized OS

• ChromeOS
• Fuchsia (Google, experimental)
• MINIX
• ReactOS (Windows-compatible open source)
• Haiku (BeOS-inspired)
• TempleOS
• Plan 9 from Bell Labs
• Inferno OS