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Fictional operating systems

Operating systems that have only appeared in fiction.

• Finux - A pun on the Finnish origins of Linux - appears in Cryptonomicon
• ALTIMIT OS - From .hack
• Hyper OS - From the movie Patlabor
• Wheatonix - April fool's joke
• Digitronix - From The Hacker Files
• Luna/X - Google's 2004 April Fool's joke
• Copland OS - From Serial Experiments Lain Navi computer, which is also the codename of a never released Apple Computer OS.
• LCARS- From television's Star Trek
• NNIX - an operating system for running programs in MMIX assembly language, which are both used as (fictional) illustrations in The Art of Computer Programming.
• Yellow Hat GNU/Linux: A distribution produced by the Gelugpa branch of Tibetan Buddhism intended to allow the user to advance in programming skill and advance towards enlightenment.
• Jesux - A linux distro supposedly for Christian hackers - was a hoax.
• lesbian GNU/Linux
• HeliacOS - Parody on SkyOS
• Winux: 2004 - A merger of Windows and Linux. A joke from the comic Sluggy Freelance.
• O-Yes - A very old Indian joke. About some OS which is "54% quicker than Windows 95 or OS/2". Very definitely a hoax.
• BarbieOS - A hoax Mattel Linux distribution.