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About Onyx

Onyx is a serious, Linux-based, GNU operating system engineered to be a high performance, highly available, and largely scalable long-term enterprise solution. Onyx is intended to be a higher quality, cost-effective alternative to the mediocre selection of bloated enterprise-class distributions that exist today.

What Makes Onyx Superior

  • Extremely economical; lower TCO than any other enterprise distribution. [1]
  • More scalable than any other Linux distribution. [2]
  • More secure than any other Linux distribution. [3]
  • Stable, long-term solution with long-term support. [4]
  • Extremely lightweight and resource friendly. Absolutely no bloat. [5]
  • Boots in 10 seconds. [6]
  • Designed to take advantage of newer hardware. [7]
  • Easy to install, deploy, and replicate. [8]
  • Easy to maintain and monitor remotely. [9]
  • Independently developed from scratch with real-world needs in mind. [10]

Downloading Onyx

Onyx is available for x86 and x86-64 desktops and servers. Please visit the 'Products' section to determine which version of Onyx best suits your needs.
Note: Onyx is not currently available for download. A public release is comming shortly.











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