plan9 needs to be in that list.
plan9 needs to be in that list.
Humm... I'm not sure that it's good - a lot of different OSes. But I'm sure, that there will be no any OS from this list really worth using. The one will have its bugs and shortcomings, the other will have its.
After all, every of the OS in list is ugly. Design and usability are really important parts of the good software, and all design and usability specialist prefers working in big companies. So, the future of operating systems is in software giant's hands.
Why?
All software has bugs.
Some of the OS's in the list look really promising & innovative.
A couple of them I have been watching develop for some time, & look forward to the day when they are fit for general usage. Everyday that goes by they are a day closer.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Many people will disagree with your statement.
That argument will never stand up, as there are just too many great pieces of software, DE's, WM's & OS's, that have been created by FOSS & other dev's to prove your statement false.
After the corporations go broke, the little people just keep on creating.
Most of these OS's are hobbies, and are not intending to be mainstream. Some are actually old OS's, AmigaOS for example was something I used as a kid. If it was free I'd probably be using it now.
The future in software giants hands? I don't think so, ubuntu is a perfect example of that being a wrong statement. The open source development model will become more important the larger projects get. Linux has 100's if not 1000's of people adding anything from one line to 1000's of lines of code. How long can Microsoft or Apple stay in front with their current model?
Here's a you tube video with a kernel developer, he talks about the rate of change in the Linux kernel. Very interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw
I'm trying ReactOS, and maybe some of the Amiga-Based ones after.
Last edited by YeOK; February 16th, 2009 at 01:00 AM.
AROS is pretty exciting.
http://aros.sourceforge.net/introduc...everything.php
I'm afraid our opinions are fundamentally different Or I don't understand some things in full.
Of course, Nobody can stop people from creating and trying to make world better with free and open software. But free and open software always will be worse that commercial. Because our modern world is build on commercial rules
Developers of free software can make excellent work and worthwhile product (Ubuntu is a bright example). But they has no profit of their work, so they has less stimulus to keep on their cause.
Commercial software developers has. So their product always will have more quality. Maybe not in one point - then in another. And generally commercial software always will be in leaders. Always. And nothing can change it.
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