[ShadowAce]

[DonaldC]

Now this is the kind of diversity I like!

[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...

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[blogOps]

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

[Billthedrill]

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

[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?

:-)

[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.

[Señor Zorro]

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

[antiRepublicrat]

The two that impress me are KolibriOS, because I miss the amazingly tight and fast old-time programs written in assembly, and Minix because of its extremely robust pure microkernel architecture.