OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 26th Sep 2008 22:53 UTC

"This post is about the desktop operating systems that fly under the radar of most people. We are definitely not talking about Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, or even BSD or Solaris. There are much less mainstream options out there for the OS-curious." Though the article doesn't go into much detail about the OSes, it is a good round up of some of the interesting candidates.

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RE: interesting

by umccullough on Sat 27th Sep 2008 16:05 UTC in reply to "interesting"

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some good Operating systems in that list.
I sincerely hope that AMiga Os can get off the ground properly and that Haiku gets properly released before I'm due to retire.

I still have yet to try AROS (the only Amiga option I'd consider at this point, since I don't plan to buy any special hardware to use it)... but it definitely seems interesting.

Haiku is at least progressing in the right direction for a release

But of that list, the only OS that I think stands a chance is SKYos. some of the stuff they're doing is truly outstanding - it looks fast, looks very fast and has some lovely features. Trouble seems to be with Skyos though, they're not actively doing anything with it other than developing new and whizzy features.

I signed up for the SkyOS beta some years ago now, with high hopes at the time. Unfortunately at the time, it ran very poorly on some of my hardware, and I have yet to try a more recently release (been tied up with Haiku in all my spare time). If the hardware support and underlying speed has improved greatly since then, I would be happy to play with it some more

(Mental note: take a look at recent SkyOS builds in the near future)

I think the major turn-off for me is that it's not currently FOSS... I've reached a point in my life where this matters a lot. I realize not everyone cares about this, but for me personally it's become a major deciding factor.

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