In reponse to several inquiries, we are extending the deadline of our Alternative OS Contest. The original deadline for entries was this Thursday, however, to allow more time for experimentation and writing, we are extending the deadline to Friday, July 14th. So fire up those download managers, grab yourself an ISO, and join the action! 
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If you're interested in OpenBSD, try http://undeadly.org.
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That's too long! Just a week will do! I had mine almost finished, and now what am I supposed to do for a month? :/
I've got a detailed GEOS review with video demonstration and a great writeup.
I'm definitely looking forward to your review, but I'm glad for the extension as now I have time to participate as well. I have had a crazy work schedule where I had to work over 80 hours in the past seven days. I was not one of the requestors for an extension, but I am very excited to have the opportunity to take part.
I'm debating between GNU/HURD, ReactOS, and Minix. Is there any reason why any of those wouldn't be viable befor I make my final decision?
Thanks for the extension,
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I don't know. Netware is pretty much dead and was extremely mainstream in its day, not very "alternative."
However, I suppose if someone really wanted to get into the nitty gritty of Netware 6.5: eDirectory, NWAdmin, Netware's file permissions, etc, I'd accept it, mainly because not enough of the IT people in the world today experienced Netware (5+ with IP, naturally) or know what it was about.
Netware was a GREAT NOS. If you want to write about it, we'll take it.
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This isn't a joke. I'm hoping that someone does a good detailed review of ecomstation. Used to be known as OS/2.
1) I don't have time.
2) I don't currently have any computers that run it (currently all G4 Macs)
3) I want to eventally be able to dual boot between Mac OS X, eComStation, and Haiku on an intel Mac when I get it later this year.
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I don't have time to do a review myself, but I'd love to see the following done in-depth:
Unununium (http://unununium.org)
Coyotos (http://coyotos.org)
FMI/OS (http://wiki.ocgnet.org:8080/FMIOS)
TinyOS (http://tinyos.net)
And, as a desktop experience, I'd love to see a review of RiscOS too (http://riscos.com) 
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Native version of two usaually hosted OS:
ETH Oberon (http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/)
SqueakNOS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/squeaknos/)
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If you're looking for non-standard OSes to review you might want to try both of these urls:
http://www.osdev.org/wiki/index.php/Projects
http://www.osdev.org/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2
Many of them aren't more then a boot sector but there are a couple of interesting ones.
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Hi,
So, I did submitted a fast version of my article on 21.
It was the one for SOLAR OS.
This GUI OS can be found at www.oby.ro if others want to take a ride.
Now, I do have a question:
-Is it OK to improve it and eventually submit again a better version of the same article?
(I was in a hurry to meet the expected deadline...)
Well, with so much extra time I could even improve the OS in the meanwhile 
Edited 2006-06-22 22:40