Try 10 OSes You've Never Heard Of

PC Plus ^ | 22 January 2010 | Mike Saunders

[martin_fierro]

Sadly, BeOS never made the mainstream desktop impact that its supporters so passionately hoped for.

I remember BeOS' final days, when they were giving away copies of the OS for free.

I think I still have a copy around here somewhere, if anyone wants it.

[GeronL]

OS’s for very very bored nerds with nothing else to do.

lol.

Some of the Linux stuff looks pretty good. Another plus for linux is they have the Scorched 3D game. dang them.

[blogOps]

Thanks. You have just rescued me from boredom death for another few months.

[martin_fierro]

I would like to hear more opinions.

For you.

[Billthedrill]

What is this “floppy disk” of which they speak?

[tgusa]

I understand your dislike of MS but suggest you have a friend show you Windows 7. I was ready to go the Linux route after Vista, then got a free upgrade to Windows 7 on my new Dell laptop. It’s slick, fast and has yet to crash (3 months on).

[Cyber Liberty]

Ping to self for later, when I have my Parallels machine....

[DemforBush]

I wonder if they can write an OS to emulate my beloved TI-99/4A?

:-)

[thulldud]

What is this “floppy disk” of which they speak?

And how long has it been since "floppy disks" were actually floppy?

[Darth Reardon]

“in Plan 9, even network connections and the user interface can be manipulated via the filesystem.”

Oh, to be able to rm a socket.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

TI-99/4A

Now THAT was a real computer.

[Knitebane]

I understand your dislike of MS but suggest you have a friend show you Windows 7.

I've had a chance to install Windows 7.

Same crap in a new wrapper. It's one claim to fame: it's not as bad as Vista. And some people even dispute that.

Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses.

Windows 7 more vulnerable to malware than Vista, says researcher

Get back to me when Microsoft builds an OS that isn't a host for botnets.

Or when Microsoft builds an OS that can't be taken down by a faulty user-land program.

[jwparkerjr]

In the Amiga days I was a developer on a mini multi-user system that used the 68000 processor. It didn't take us long to discover we could use the Amiga as a workstation on the Alpha Micro and a lot of the code we wrote for the AM system was really good for the Amiga too. It made a really neat color workstation since those from AM were all green or orange. Ah, the good ol’ days of the 80’s!

[NCjim]

My first 'personal' computer

[dread78645]

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

That's why they let the XOrg & XFree86 developers do the GUIy bits. The OS shouldn't be concerned with the 'click & drool' side of things.

[tgusa]

Just sayin’ that my experience with Windows 7 has been a good one - haven’t been hit with a virus or any malware. It has yet to crash. I’m happy with it thus far.

[smokingfrog]

I knew I shouldn't have given away my DEC tower.
That thing was built like a tank!

[Betis70]

And no woman who looked that good ever sat at one again ...

[machman]

On my old PC I used to quad boot 4 OSes, Windows, Linux, BeOS, and one called QNX. Ah, those were the days......

[Señor Zorro]

I’d heard of 6 of them. I guess that means I’m not too far gone, yet... :)