OSNews often reports on small and hobby operating systems. Here is a list for you to vote for the one with the right amount of technical and wider success potential for a bright future. Note 1: The Poll is now closed. Thank you for voting!
Note 2: There are more small OSes around (e.g. µnOS, Athene, Rome etc) but we picked only the non-commercial, “hobbystic” in nature, unique in codebase and architecture and the most well known of the bunch. If you have never heard of these small OSes before, make a search on OSNews about them! Linux and derivatives (e.g. blueeyedos, cosmoe etc) or Plan9 do not fit to the poll because of some of the reasons outlined above.
Update: The AROS choice is now deleted due to a hack by a certain individual in favor of AROS. For your interest, AROS had 5% before it got tampered.
Anyone give any thought as to why OSNEWS might want to post one of these polls every once in a while?
Look: They do this on their own time, for their own interest, and for us in the rabid masses. Since the site is ad supported, maybe they want to know if they are getting the editorial mix right to maximize the revenue supporting the servers, website costs, etc.
So, you hack the poll, and that skews the results. While there are alot of AROS fans on here today, that may not be representative of the average OSNEWS visitors.
So they have to delete AROS from the poll for one persons need for validation…and piss off the AROS users for today.
Well, thems the breaks. TDB, and all that. You guys posted the link, and one of your own hacked the poll. Personally, I’d rather have Eugenia and company keep this site (relatively) platform agnostic than serve some hackers ego.
Give up the IP address, or come forward. Don’t mess this up for the rest of us, and frankly, don’t alienate the community around your favorite OS.
well said Justin! thanks!
@justin
> and one of your own hacked the poll.
Really? And how do you know? No, seriously, if you have information about who did it (and you surely seem to know it), then tell us, we’d be glad to hear.
But wait a minute, perhaps you don’t know and are just making things up, right?
If AROS’ removal is due, as you suggest and as Eugenia confirmed in her reply to your post by saying “well said Justin!”, to the fact that AROS brings a minority of visitors to OSNews, well, then some people are not so wrong, after all, about OSNews not being that great site.
Eugenia found me agreeing with her on the reason she previously gave, but this one really puzzles me. Perhaps, Eugenia, you want to clarify?
I just voted for OpenBeOS. I don’t know what their timeline is, but if they can produce something of quality in or about one year, it could be huge. BeOS is already very nice in many respects even in its very dated form, and has a solid and enduring user base, so with a little development and modernization, well…
SkyOs? I don’t know. First I’d have to be able to get it to work on one of my computers. His pace of development is inspirational though.
>Perhaps, Eugenia, you want to clarify?
I didn’t say anywhere that “one of you” hacked the poll, but *possibly* a person of the amiga community. Not someone from the project! This was not indented to be read like that!
i would have voted for aros but now its deleted i voted for skyos