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!
Alternative OS Contest Deadline Extended!
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Nobody wrote anything?
Oh they did, however, we got requests the timespan was too short. Hence, the extension.
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?
BSD is too common. BeOS and FreeDOS are certainly eligible. What made you think otherwise?
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.
If you’re interested in OpenBSD, try http://undeadly.org.
The site looks good. Thanks for the link.
I have four entries already, and several requests to extend the deadline.
Anyone doing an AROS write-up?
Edited 2006-06-21 17:10
Yes.
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.
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
All three are acceptable entries. I’d especially like to see a comprehensive review of Minix AND one of ReactOS.
I didn’t have time to write up anything (doing studies). Now I can get it done
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.
How about Netware? It’s not a desktop OS, but is an OS of some type.
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.
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.
Now I can consider doing one too…although 14 july seems a bit too much time to give.
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.
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)
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
unununium is, by far, the most odd operating system i’ve ever seen
Native version of two usaually hosted OS:
ETH Oberon (http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/)
SqueakNOS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/squeaknos/)
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.
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.
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 http://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