are there OS thats not Windows, Mac, or bassed on Unix?

[metalf8801]

Are there any active Operating Systems that are ready to use now that are not
Windows, Dos, Mac, or based on Unix?

PS
I'm look for OS that are out of Beta

[arman.haghi]

Look at Minix

http://www.minix3.org/

Good story behind it, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX

[3rdalbum]

Are there any active Operating Systems that are ready to use now that are not
Windows, Dos, Mac, or based on Unix?

Haiku is based on the concepts of BeOS

Syllable is an original operating system (well, it's based on another operating system whose name I don't remember, but that was GPLed as well). This is a very promising project that I keep an eye on.

SkyOS is proprietary, but original.

Visopsys is also original, but not very far along.

MikeOS is a very basic operating system - I think it's made by one of the writers of Linux Format magazine.

ReactOS is based around reimplementing Windows, but it has no Microsoft code in it.

AROS is based around the concepts of the Amiga operating system, and is open source. New versions of Amiga's operating system do come out...

Those are the major ones. Have a look on Google or Wikipedia for more information. Have fun!

(Note: These are all very primitive compared to Linux; they are NOT for end-users yet.)

Just remembered: NextStep and OpenStep gradually evolved into Mac OS X. The original Mac OS is a completely different OS to OS X. There are also heaps and heaps of operating systems from the 1980s; each different computer manufacturer had a different operating system.

When you say "DOS-based", remember two things:

1. DOS was an Apple operating system. You mean "MS-DOS".
2. MS-DOS was based on an earlier operating system called CP/M.

[hyper_ch]

Solaris? Or is that a Unix?

[sisco311]

Solaris? Or is that a Unix?
Solaris is Unix-based.

[mips]

Solaris is Unix-based.

I would not call it Unix-based, just Unix, as that is what it is :)

[reyfer]

Well, I can think of MenuetOS http://www.menuetos.net/

MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language, and released under the License. It supports 32/64 bit x86 assembly programming for smaller, faster and less resource hungry applications.

Menuet has no roots within UNIX or the POSIX standards, nor is it based on any operating system. The design goal has been to remove the extra layers between different parts of an OS, which normally complicate programming and create bugs.

[jrusso2]

Open VMS, NetWare

[SomethinSnappy]

I dunno if it falls under the Unix like umbrella, but what about VxWorks?

[darrelljon]

Have a look at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of operating systems) and OS Wikia (http://os.wikia.com).

[SunnyRabbiera]

There is HURD too

[notwen]

HelenOS (http://www.helenos.eu/) was built form the ground-up last I checked. I had a friend playing w/ development on this project, haven't heard anything new form him or the project in a while though. =]

[metalf8801]

There is HURD too

I thought that development of Hurd was stopped after Linux came out.

[mips]

I thought that development of Hurd was stopped after Linux came out.

Wrong, but it seems dev. is as slow as wading through molasses.

[finferflu]

I thought HURD was Unix-based...

[metalf8801]

Wrong, but it seems dev. is as slow as wading through molasses.

thats good know thanks :smile:

[SunnyRabbiera]

I thought HURD was Unix-based...

Nope, however it does take some notes from Unix sort of like how Linux took notes from Minix.
However HURD is its own project, and yes HURD is still around but its slow going.

[seanc7]

Non PC-based ones include:

- on older Mainframes: VAX-VMS - not sure if it's still around though.
- on the IBM AS/400 - OS/400
- on HP Tandem non-stop mainframes - Tandem OS - I don't think it's based on Unix but I might be mistaken.

The only PC-based one that I didn't see listed was:

- Menuet which is an x86 OS being written completely in Assembler. It's semi-usable. There are 32-bit and 64-bit flavours of it. Last time I tried it in 2006 it had a basic web server that worked for serving basic web pages. At that point it was small enough to run off of a 1.44MB floppy disk.

[Iandefor]

EDIT: Nevermind.

[ezsit]

There is also QNX from Canada.

www.qnx.com

Proprietary, but they offer a free download of their Live/Install CD. From their download page:

http://www.qnx.com/products/getmomentics/

Choose the "QNX Neutrino Host." The other options are development environments for QNX hosted on Windows or Linux.

QNX is very Unix-like in some respects, but unique and independently developed.

[D-EJ915]

Non PC-based ones include:

- on older Mainframes: VAX-VMS - not sure if it's still around though.
- on the IBM AS/400 - OS/400
- on HP Tandem non-stop mainframes - Tandem OS - I don't think it's based on Unix but I might be mistaken.

The only PC-based one that I didn't see listed was:

- Menuet which is an x86 OS being written completely in Assembler. It's semi-usable. There are 32-bit and 64-bit flavours of it. Last time I tried it in 2006 it had a basic web server that worked for serving basic web pages. At that point it was small enough to run off of a 1.44MB floppy disk.
NonStop OS is not unix, neither are any of the IBM Mainframe operating systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_mainframe_operating_systems) or OS/2...there are more old and obscure operating systems than I would care to mention here and you probably don't want to know them all anyway.

Also don't forget Plan 9 and it's somewhat-spawn Inferno.

Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems) is a wikipedia article list of OSes, most of those are not based on what you specified.

[init1]

BugOS
http://bugos.nop.hu/

[Thundera]

There are java based OS's on cell phones and whatnot.

[p_quarles]

No one seems to have mentioned AmigaOS or GEOS.

So I will. ;)

[cardinals_fan]

No one seems to have mentioned AmigaOS or GEOS.

There was a brief mention of Amiga in Post #3 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4725858&postcount=3)

[3rdalbum]

There was one written entirely in Python. The project is dead now, and it had a completely unpronouncable name. You thought Ubuntu was difficult to pronounce?

I can't remember the actual name now so I can't link to it.

[TenPlus1]

QNX was a pretty good Os when I tried it a while back... I managed to boot from a single floppy disk (demo version) and go right into a full desktop and use the internet... not bad for a floppy...

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX

[Fzang]

Sorry, I don't know much about computers but...

What programs would you use for an OS that's not Unix, Windows or Mac? Most programs are made for those three...?

Or am I going completely wrong?

[smbm]

RiscOS

[mips]

RiscOS

Pity the Amiga and Archimedes computers went the way they did. I had an Amiga but also wanted a Archie :)

[oldos2er]

Ecomstation.