Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Jun 2007 20:30 UTC, submitted by Nitsudima
"The Free Software community is well known for its diversity. This is most obvious at the application level, but even exists in the context of operating systems. David Chisnall takes a break from UNIX-derivatives and explores some of the more esoteric options." Note: From experience, I can say that the author's claim that "Haiku is more or less ready for their 1.0 release in terms of features" is a bit overambitious.
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2007-02-22
Just having POSIX compatibility doesn't make it a *nix... even Windows has had POSIX compatibility since Windows 2000 (I think, maybe a bit earlier).
The POSIX standard seems to unite a large number of disparate operating systems. However, just implementing a feature doesn't define an operating system.
Regarding the article itself, my only complaint is that I didn't learn about a single OS new to me. Most of these are fairly old projects.
Edited 2007-06-25 21:25