Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 19th Jul 2002 04:25 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes Let's face it, the most important, truly alternative, hobby operating systems that are somewhat usable today are three: MenuetOS, SkyOS and AtheOS. All three are hobby, open source OSes, written from people who enjoy coding low level programming. Read more about the differences between these OSes and which one you might want to try out.
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its hard to compare 3 hobby OSes..
by Evan on Fri 19th Jul 2002 05:24 UTC

because each of them are trying to do something different. Anyways, I'm just extremely happy I will be able to install atheos again (as syllable) and be able to expect some updates.

I feel kindve bad about the fork, as now the core parts of atheos wont be as similiar to each other as they would be developed fully by kurt (dev. styles, etc?) and how Kurt didnt want it forked, but perhaps it was destined to. It will at least be an interesting summer with the updates coming forth, hopefully quickly.

Cant wait to install syllable on my athlon 1900+, it was as visually more responsive than win2k on my celeron 800 with 320 megs of ram on a ppro 200 160 megs of ram. I just wish there was some way to compare it other then compile times, etc.