MeDieViL02 Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 i'm wondering if there are other operating systems worth looking at next to windows, apple, linux and freebsd? thank you (may be posted in the wrong place, but there isnt really an other operating system forum) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted November 17, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 17, 2008 GNU/Hurd? (in development) ReactOS (windows clone in development) Other flavor of *nix, like OpenSolaris? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rson451 Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 Solaris is worth a look I'd say. Edit: Damn you mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 Less popular but in developement: Haiku SkyOS (propriatary, 1 man project, but start to look good) MenuetOS Visopsys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted November 17, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 17, 2008 *was a lil sarcasticthere is nothing else out there ... you can make your own nix distro I got the sarcasm, it was just that there was no other useful information in your post. :p Let me add a few more items to my list, too. MINIX, which is a microkernel, and may be of interest (it was the original inspiration of Linux, but Linux went a different direction from the MINIX foundation) and QNX, which is a RTOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTD Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 BeOS (now defunct, afaik): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS http://www.bebits.com/app/2680 Haiku: http://www.haiku-os.org/ But your best bet for an industry-grade alernative OS is Solaris: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ Have a look at FreeBSD as well: http://www.freebsd.org/ Then again, you might try some of the other flavours of Linux, like fluxbox, etc: http://fluxbox.org/ http://distrowatch.com/ Or this: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 Welcome to fluxbox.orgHome of the Fluxbox windowmanager. From windowmanger to OS? Quantum leap? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTD Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 Almost forgot Xfce: http://www.xfce.org/ Not an OS, but a Window manager. Sometimes a different, fresh UI can make all the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 That's what Linux (and others *NIX's) is all about. We have Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox, Blackbox, FVWM, ICEWM, Window Maker, Sawfish, Enlightenment, Afterstep, Ratpoison, (...) Well just to name a few DE's and windowmanagers, as there are so many to choose from... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted November 17, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 17, 2008 http://www.gnustep.org/ It's based on nextstep/openstep. Pretty interesting to play with, as it's the pre-cursor to what is basically OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 GNUStep openSolaris BeOS (defunct, but still run by a bunch of users) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 A new distro release of OpenSolaris is about to be released this month. If you want to try it, you should wait for it. Lots of improvements and more common software added usually found in Linux distros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 A new distro release of OpenSolaris is about to be released this month. If you want to try it, you should wait for it. Lots of improvements and more common software added usually found in Linux distros. Yay! Last time I played around with OpenSolaris was when I had just gotten my external hard drive (in October) and decided to play around with it in a VM. I got rid of it, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted November 18, 2008 Administrators Share Posted November 18, 2008 Thread cleaned Please post maturely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 I forgot this one (no headline since a while) but today etoile 0.4 have been released to the world. This OSX clone start to look good! http://etoileos.com/etoile/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 19, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted November 19, 2008 eComStation - an upgraded version of OS/2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Yay!Last time I played around with OpenSolaris was when I had just gotten my external hard drive (in October) and decided to play around with it in a VM. I got rid of it, though. The RC ISOs are already available at genunix.org. I've installed the RC1 image on a colocated server two weeks ago and everything went fine. The packages of the release are already final, it's just more installer bugs that are going to be smashed between now and the final release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonRedMk Member Posted November 23, 2008 Member Share Posted November 23, 2008 How about Darwin (developed in part by Apple and used in Mac OSX)? PureDarwin is an open-source version of it built using Apple's own source code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 OMG, it was a while since I heard of a Darwin based distro! I remember when we had to use it to build OSX86 (day 1 to 10). I wonder how OSX compatible it can get if GNUStep+Darwin is used together. In -theory-, many osx apps -should- load once recompiled on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted November 23, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 23, 2008 OMG, it was a while since I heard of a Darwin based distro! I remember when we had to use it to build OSX86 (day 1 to 10). I wonder how OSX compatible it can get if you use GNUStep+Darwin. In -theory-, many osx apps -should- load once recompiled on it! Not really. You'll be missing critical application frameworks and libraries that the apps rely on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 COCOA is part of GNUStep, the driver api (kext) is part of darwin, nobody care about Carbon anymore, CoreAudio, CoreImage and QuartzExtrem are only used in few apps. How many are left? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted November 23, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 23, 2008 COCOA is part of GNUStep, the driver api (kext) is part of darwin, nobody care about Carbon anymore, CoreAudio, CoreImage and QuartzExtrem are only used in few apps. How many are left? GNUstep's own objective-c library isn't the same as the 10.5 cocoa api. As for the actual libraries and frameworks that various apps hook into.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Not too bad after all, 70% of missing one are from coreSometing and quartz. Glut, QT*/QuickTime, WebKit and few other have OpenSource or freeware alternatives. I thinks that it is far from impossible to do something about them, but I don't think nobody will try to reverse ingeneer those. But I wonder how much work it would take to make a wine like apps for OSX applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unto Darkness Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Just heard about this one: AmigaOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted November 24, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 24, 2008 (edited) GNUstep's own objective-c library isn't the same as the 10.5 cocoa api. ... Yeah, GNUStep is great because you can write an app against the API's, and it'll run on OS X and anywhere that there's GNUStep. Of course you can't then take a OS X app and make it run on GNUStep, GNUStep is only a subset of the OS X api's. Edit: As Mark said, there's HURD, you can get a version of Debian using HURD, and there's also a version of HURD using the L4 microkernel. and actually a project called "L4Linux" that has Linux running as a server on-top of L4. Edit 2: Here we go, LiveCD of Debian with the L4 microkernel with Linux in-between: http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/LinuxOnL4/demo.shtml Edited November 24, 2008 by The_Decryptor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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