MiNT
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MiNT ("MiNT is Now TOS") is an alternative operating system (OS) kernel for the Atari ST computer and its successors which is free software. Together with the free system components fVDI (device drivers), XaAES (GUI widgets), and TeraDesk (a file manager), MiNT provided a free TOS compatible replacement OS that is capable of multitasking.
MiNT was originally released as "MiNT is Not TOS" (a play on "GNU's Not Unix") by Eric Smith. Atari adopted MiNT as an official alternative kernel with the release of the Atari Falcon, under the name MultiTOS. Eric continued to release his own free versions in parallel, resulting in the one-character change of the acronym expansion.
There are several distributions, most notably the RPM-based SpareMiNT as well as the Debian GNU/MiNT porting effort.