SimpleMining OS

SimpleMining OS (SMOS) is a plug-and-play Linux operating system for GPU mining rigs, managed from a cloud dashboard at simplemining.net. It is built for miners who run dedicated NVIDIA or AMD rigs and want to flash a drive, boot, and control everything from a browser instead of maintaining Windows and drivers. If you are looking for a SimpleMining OS download, you get a disk image that you write to a USB stick, SSD or NVMe drive of 7 GB or more.

SimpleMining OS is shareware (conditionally free). The official site offers a free test on one rig with no card required, after which each rig is billed. The project is run by SimplePod.ai and remains active in 2026: miner integrations are updated almost daily, and a new beta image was published in June 2026.

SimpleMining OS at a glance

What it does

• Boots straight into a mining system with NVIDIA and AMD drivers already installed.
• Lists all rigs on one page with hashrate, status, temperatures, power, clocks and assigned groups.
• Lets you overclock and undervolt per GPU or per group, and assign rigs to overclocking and mining groups in bulk.
• Runs batch actions across many rigs: execute commands, reboot, reload, pause or power off.
• Ships many integrated miners (lolMiner, T-Rex, GMiner, TeamRedMiner, SRBMiner-Multi, NBMiner and others) and accepts custom Linux miners.
• Shows a live miner console and keeps up to a year of graphs for the account, groups, rigs and GPUs.
• Raises alerts for missing GPUs, repeated reboots and high temperatures, with Telegram notifications when a rig goes offline.
• Includes sleep schedules to pause rigs during hot days or expensive power hours, plus the RxBoost tool for RX 400/500 cards.

How miners use it

Flash and register a single rig

1. Create an account on the official site.
2. Download the stable image that matches your GPUs: the general stable image for most cards, or the NVIDIA RTX 50 stable image for Blackwell cards and newer AMD.
3. Write it to an empty drive of 7 GB or more with Etcher, Rufus or dd. A plain file copy will not boot.
4. Open the drive’s config.txt on your PC and enter the email address of your SimpleMining account, so the rig links itself to you.
5. Boot the rig with a DHCP network connection. It appears in the dashboard, ready for a mining group.

Set up a mining group

1. Create a mining group, pick a miner program and enter your pool and wallet, for example pool.example.com:3333 and YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS.
2. Assign rigs to the group. Every rig in it picks up the new settings, so switching coins is one change instead of many.
3. Create an overclocking group with core, memory and voltage values tested on one card, then roll it out to identical rigs.

Deploy many rigs at once

1. For ten or more machines, the docs recommend the SimpleMiningImager tool: a bootable 16 GB or larger USB stick that writes SMOS to the drives already inside each rig.
2. Copy your chosen SMOS image to the Imager’s partition and put your account email in its config.txt.
3. Choose interactive or automatic mode in options.txt, boot each rig from the stick, and let it flash and reboot. Note that this erases every drive attached to the rig.

Install and first run

The official requirements are short: a PC with NVIDIA or AMD GPUs, a 7 GB or larger drive that can be erased, and an internet connection with DHCP on your LAN. Wi-Fi support is still marked beta, so use a cable where you can.

• Pick the right image: the Ubuntu 22-based images use about 7 GB of the drive, versus about 5 GB for the older Ubuntu 20 images. The newest beta drops AMD and pre-RTX 20 NVIDIA cards.
• Upgrade in stages: the changelog repeatedly advises upgrading one or a few rigs first and the rest only after they run cleanly.
• BIOS settings: set the drive as the first boot device and check the motherboard settings for multi-GPU rigs (for example, Above 4G decoding) per your board’s manual.
• Antivirus: desktop antivirus may flag the image or miners inside it as potentially unwanted software, because the same miners are abused by malware. Get the image only from the official site and do not turn protection off globally.
• Overclocking risk: undervolting and memory overclocks are applied remotely. Start conservatively, because unstable settings cause crashes and pushing cards hard shortens their life.

Limitations

• It is not free beyond the test period on one rig; every rig is billed after that.
• GPU rigs only: the site does not list ASIC management or a dedicated CPU-rig mode.
• The general stable image dates from September 2024. The newest drivers are in the RTX 50 stable image and the beta, so very new or very old cards force you to choose between images.
• Management is cloud-based, so the dashboard, alerts and remote control depend on the service and your connection.
• The feature set is leaner than bigger platforms; for example, multi-user farm permissions and network (PXE) deployment are not described on the official site.

SimpleMining OS vs alternatives

Hive OS is the main rival. It has a permanent free tier for two workers, manages ASICs and CPU rigs as well, and offers more farm tooling. SimpleMining OS keeps the interface simpler and targets GPU rigs only. If you only want to mine on a Windows desktop you also use day to day, a desktop miner such as NiceHash QuickMiner is closer to what you need than any mining OS.

FAQ

What is SMOS?

SMOS is short for SimpleMining OS, the Linux mining system from simplemining.net. “SMOS” and “SimpleMining OS” refer to the same product.

Is SimpleMining OS free?

Not permanently. The official site offers a free test on one rig, then charges per rig, which is why it is listed here as shareware.

Which SimpleMining OS download should I use?

Use the general stable image for most NVIDIA and AMD cards and the RTX 50 stable image for Blackwell GPUs. Use the beta only if you have RTX 20 series or newer and need its newer driver.

SimpleMining OS vs Hive OS: which is better?

Hive OS has more features, ASIC support and a free tier for two workers. SimpleMining OS is simpler and GPU-focused. Try both on one rig before moving a farm.

Is SimpleMining OS profitable?

The OS does not make mining profitable by itself. Results depend on electricity price, hardware and coin prices, so calculate before you buy cards, and mine only on hardware you own or are authorised to use.

Can I install SimpleMining OS on an NVMe or SSD drive?

Yes. The site lists HDD, SSD, NVMe and USB flash drives. The SimpleMiningImager tool can flash drives inside the rig without removing them.

Last checked against official sources: 1 October 2026 (developer website: simplemining.net). Versions and licence terms change — confirm on the developer's site before deploying in production.