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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)

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*was a lil sarcastic

there 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

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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/

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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..

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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.

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GNUstep's own objective-c library isn't the same as the 10.5 cocoa api.

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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

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