http://www.osnews.com/story/14961/Alternative_OS_Contest_Deadline_Extended_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:48:22 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?135760 http://osnews.com/thread?135760 Nobody wrote anything? Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (watchingher) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135763 http://osnews.com/thread?135763 Oh they did, however, we got requests the timespan was too short. Hence, the extension. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135765 http://osnews.com/thread?135765 Anyone doing an AROS write-up?Edited 2006-06-21 17:10 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (transami) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135767 http://osnews.com/thread?135767 I have four entries already, and several requests to extend the deadline. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135778 http://osnews.com/thread?135778 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. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135782 http://osnews.com/thread?135782 Thom,
Maybe you should expand the collection of OSes to include say OpenBSD for instance. Even though it is Unix based, we never see many articles on this OS. Unlike Linux/FreeBSD/Mac which are dime a dozen. And how about BeOS? And FreeDOS? Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jbalmer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135784 http://osnews.com/thread?135784 BSD is too common. BeOS and FreeDOS are certainly eligible. What made you think otherwise? Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135803 http://osnews.com/thread?135803 I didn't have time to write up anything (doing studies). Now I can get it done Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cefarix) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135805 http://osnews.com/thread?135805 If you're interested in OpenBSD, try http://undeadly.org. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135808 http://osnews.com/thread?135808 The site looks good. Thanks for the link. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jbalmer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135811 http://osnews.com/thread?135811 BeOS and FreeDOS are certainly eligible. What made you think otherwise?

I didn't find it in the list... oh you have written in the end "and any other unique and interesting OS!".. . never mind. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jbalmer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135813 http://osnews.com/thread?135813 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,

Sean Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sean Parsons) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135817 http://osnews.com/thread?135817 All three are acceptable entries. I'd especially like to see a comprehensive review of Minix AND one of ReactOS. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135818 http://osnews.com/thread?135818 How about Netware? It's not a desktop OS, but is an OS of some type. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (IanSVT) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135821 http://osnews.com/thread?135821 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. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sabon) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135822 http://osnews.com/thread?135822 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. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135826 http://osnews.com/thread?135826 Now I can consider doing one too...although 14 july seems a bit too much time to give. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ronald Vos) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135833 http://osnews.com/thread?135833 I'm disappointed because I'm impatient. I hope we can submit better ones if we already submitted.

If anybody else wants to document a radically different OS, try http://www.losethos.com

Jeez, by July 14, stuff might be out-dated. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TDavis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135835 http://osnews.com/thread?135835 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) Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (koen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135848 http://osnews.com/thread?135848 Native version of two usaually hosted OS:

ETH Oberon (http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/)
SqueakNOS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/squeaknos/) Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BrickCaster) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135853 http://osnews.com/thread?135853 You can't review Unununium (usability of bash?), unless you want to go into a technical analysis of what they're trying to achieve.

Hmm, that's not such a bad idea actually.

Edit: or is it?Edited 2006-06-21 21:35 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ronald Vos) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135857 http://osnews.com/thread?135857 unununium is, by far, the most odd operating system i've ever seen Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (koen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135861 http://osnews.com/thread?135861 Same here, even if I was sure I wanted to try this contest the old schedule wouldn't have allowed me the time because I'm still writing exams. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Celerate) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135865 http://osnews.com/thread?135865 Sorry about the double post folks, it's hard to find an ISP that works up here in Yellowknife. FireFox said OSNews.com was unreachable and I had to refresh a few times just to end up with this.

As a feature request, perhaps the site admin could attach a unique tag to each post, and stop two posts with the same tag from being sent within five minutes of each other. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Celerate) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135903 http://osnews.com/thread?135903 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. Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chase@osdev) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135938 http://osnews.com/thread?135938 Yes. Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mikesum32) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?135944 http://osnews.com/thread?135944 I wouldn't have time to write about QNX. Now I can.

I hope there are lots of quality submissions in the end. Looking forward to reading them. Thu, 22 Jun 2006 03:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (flav2000) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?136169 http://osnews.com/thread?136169 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 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bogdan_ontanu) Comments