Alive operating systems
22 entries marked alive.
| Name | Years | Status | Family | Creator / origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| z/VM | 1972– | Alive | VM | IBM |
| QNX | 1982– | Alive | Independent | Dan Dodge & Gordon Bell / BlackBerry |
| AIX | 1986– | Alive | Unix | IBM |
| MINIX | 1987– | Alive | Independent | Andrew Tanenbaum / VU Amsterdam |
| IBM iOS/400, i5/OS | 1988– | Alive | Independent | IBM |
| Linux | 1991– | Alive | Linux | Linus Torvalds / kernel community |
| FreeBSD | 1993– | Alive | BSD | FreeBSD Project |
| NetBSD | 1993– | Alive | BSD | NetBSD Project |
| Windows NT / Windows | 1993– | Alive | Windows | David Cutler team / Microsoft |
| OpenBSD | 1996– | Alive | BSD | Theo de Raadt / OpenBSD Project |
| ReactOS | 1998– | Alive | Windows | ReactOS Project |
| z/OS | 2000– | Alive | OS/360 | IBM |
| Haiku | 2001– | Alive | Independent | Haiku Project |
| macOSMac OS X | 2001– | Alive | Unix | Apple |
| DragonFly BSD | 2003– | Alive | BSD | Matthew Dillon |
| KolibriOS | 2004– | Alive | Independent | KolibriOS team |
| iOS | 2007– | Alive | Unix | Apple |
| Android | 2008– | Alive | Linux | Android Inc. → Google / Open Handset Alliance |
| illumos | 2010– | Alive | Unix | illumos community |
| ChromeOS | 2011– | Alive | Linux | |
| SerenityOS | 2018– | Alive | Independent | Andreas Kling / community |
| ZealOS | 2020– | Alive | Independent | ZealOS team |