Try 10 OSes You've Never Heard Of

PC Plus ^ | 22 January 2010 | Mike Saunders

[ShadowAce]

[DonaldC]

Now this is the kind of diversity I like!

[momincombatboots]

Thanks for posting this. I will never ever buy another Windows product after Vista and I am looking for something different. Vista really was the nail in the Microsoft office. I consider Microsoft a a bad virus at this point always snooping and “updating” (they mean disabling) your computer. I would like to hear more opinions. Bookmark!

[paulycy]

Heaven help the person who has enough time on their hands (i.e. so little meaningful in their lives) to develop an amiga clone OS for modern hardware...

[ShadowAce]

LOL—I never did own/use an Amiga.

[Future Snake Eater]

I would like to hear more opinions.

Switch to decaf.

[ShadowAce]

Just be careful of these options. Most are not yet ready for prime-time. But they are fun to look at.

I'm actually excited about #6--Kolibiri

[Star Traveler]

Well, I'll keep working on my "real computer"... LOL...

IMSAI 8080 Microcomputer System

[xenob]

My Amiga 1200 sits next to my - Windows 7 PeeCee, and my iMac. Talk about diversity... Amiga was the IT, well for a couple years anyway then management ran it off the cliff.

Cool list... Haiku is pretty nice, BeOS was a cool OS... (but cool ain’t enough)

[smith288]

Linux/BSD/Unix/BeOS people never knew how to design squat from a UI point of view.

[rarestia]

I use Kolibri on a 512 MB thumb drive, and it works GREAT! It boots in less than 15 seconds on my old Proforma Pentium laptop, and I can do most any basic stuff (web, email) from it without a hiccup.

[paulycy]

LOL—I never did own/use an Amiga.

Me neither. Watched 'em. Laughed. Moved on.

[xenob]

Linux/BSD/Unix/BeOS people never knew how to design squat from a UI point of view.

You can't be serious, or haven't looked at a modern Linux/BDS distro...

[Dr. Sivana]

Gee, I had my own list (off the top of my head):

1. CP/M 2.2, the 8-bit Z80 standard! (CP/M86 for those who are stuck in x86 land) 2. AmigaOS with Intuition interface 3. BeOS-Amiga for the '90s! 4. NeXTstep-Why settle for Apple's kludge when you can have the original? 5. AtariST OS with GEM (Graphical Environment Manager, also available for Ventura Publisher on the IBM PC AT) 6. MSX, the 8 bit standard by Microsoft. A stable standard minted in the 80s and adopted by a variety of Japanese computer desktop manufactrurers, and SpectraVideo/Bondwell. 7. OS8. You need a mini-computer like a PDP-8 to run it, but it can generate 4KB virtual machines. You can also repair the core memory and papertape yourself with a little training. 8. So many other proprietary systems with their own plusses: Acorn, DEC Rainbow DOS, Coleco's ADAM with Apple II (almost) compatible BASIC.

[JRandomFreeper]

I have one of those. I'm looking for a 4K memory card for it.

/johnny

[Dr. Sivana]

Gee, I had my own list (off the top of my head):

1. CP/M 2.2, the 8-bit Z80 standard! (CP/M86 for those who are stuck in x86 land)

2. AmigaOS with Intuition interface

3. BeOS-Amiga for the '90s!

4. NeXTstep-Why settle for Apple's kludge when you can have the original?

5. AtariST OS with GEM (Graphical Environment Manager, also available for Ventura Publisher on the IBM PC AT)

6. MSX, the 8 bit standard by Microsoft. A stable standard minted in the 80s and adopted by a variety of Japanese computer desktop manufactrurers, and SpectraVideo/Bondwell.

7. OS8. You need a mini-computer like a PDP-8 to run it, but it can generate 4KB virtual machines. You can also repair the core memory and papertape yourself with a little training.

8. So many other proprietary systems with their own plusses: Acorn, DEC Rainbow DOS, Coleco's ADAM with Apple II (almost) compatible BASIC.

[streetpreacher]

What are these? OSes for losers?

[smokingfrog]

Interesting.

One of those smaller OSs might be perfect for cleaning up a system infected with spyware, malware or a nasty virus if they would package some AV software with it.

[GeronL]

interesting.

Of course I can’t even understand how to make a Live CD.
lol.