Are there any other OS than Micro$oft , Linux and Mac O$ X

[sharks]

Are there any other OS than Micro$oft ,Linux and Mac O$ X

[Sub101]

Sun Solaris... or is that based on linux?

[Dixon Bainbridge]

AmigaOS
Plan 9

[Sef]

Yes, there are the BSDs. The mains ones are FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/), NetBSD (http://netbsd.org/), and OpenBSD (http://openbsd.org/).


Sun Solaris... or is that based on linux?

Solaris is based on Unix, like the BSDs.

[Diabolis]

Solaris is based in unix, just as mac and linux does. So it is very similar.

For other distros you can visit this page: distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com/), but I believe that all the oses there are linux based.

[kk0sse54]

I don't think OpenSolaris is not linux but it's based off unix. As for other OSs there's Minix and the BSD OSs

[Xanatos Craven]

Are there any other OS than Micro$oft ,Linux and Mac O$ X
Ah, dollar signs in company names... always a sign of maturity.

Solaris isn't based on on Linux, but both Linux and Solaris are UNIX-like (and Solaris may still officially be UNIX. I dunno). There's BSD, also UNIX-like and what OS X's innards are based off of, and a whole other ton of obscure stuff out there that may be completely different, like BeOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems

[smbm]

Vms

[SunnyRabbiera]

There are many:
BSD
Amiga OS
Solaris
QNX
FreeDos
Haiku
Syllable
ReactOS

the list goes on and on

[RiceMonster]

Minix

[_DD_]

More obscure ones...

ReactOS
Syllable
Haiku
JNode
AROS
Plan 9
FreeDOS
MikeOS
KolibriOS

[fatality_uk]

Minix

Woah History buff :lol:


You guys have also forgotten the BEST OS ever created
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[kinematic]

Actually, Linux doesn't belong in the list of OS's. Linux is a kernel, not an OS ;-)

[Phenax]

There are thousands of operating systems.

[damis648]

Actually, Linux doesn't belong in the list of OS's. Linux is a kernel, not an OS ;-)

Ah, correct, but I think here we are talking Kernel/OS combinations (IE GNU/Linux is what linux should be referred to.)

Back on topic... this is quite interesting. At the very core though, aren't all OS's based on either QDOS or UNIX at the very bottom of the tree?

Note I said QDOS... I hope that is correct as I read that DOS was based on QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). Name later changed to 76-DOS or something like that?

[Chame_Wizard]

Unix self is a kernel :lolflag:

[Ebuntor]

Woah History buff :lol:


History buff? You mean as in that MINIX is old? It's still in active development and a new version was released a few months ago. In fact one of the professors at my university, Andrew Tanenbaum (http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7East/), works at my computer sciences dept, so I ought to know.

[Ozor Mox]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems

There are many.

[zmjjmz]

Cp/m

[zachtib]

Os/2

[damis648]

Well we can all agree: There are more OS's in the world than we all can count.

[Chame_Wizard]

UNIX and the Internet,strong since 1969:guitar:

[Ioky]

There is a lot of OS, out there. indeed a lot of them are base on UNIX or UNIX like, Even DOS is UNIX like.

[billgoldberg]

One that hasn't been named yet is IBM's AIX (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/os/aix/index.html).

[metalf8801]

SkyOS (http://www.skyos.org/) its still in beta but so are a lot of the other OS

[Lostincyberspace]

Wow all this about GNU/Linux and no GNU/Hurd?

[-grubby]

One that hasn't been named yet is IBM's AIX (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/os/aix/index.html).

I don't think anybody mentioned BeOS yet. Or OS/2. I didn't bother looking through all the OS's listed yet

[days_of_ruin]

$un $olari$.What?!My "s" key is broken!
:lolflag:

[koenn]

At the very core though, aren't all OS's based on either QDOS or UNIX at the very bottom of the tree?

not at all.

[Pseudonomous]

If this is a question out of pure curiousity, the replys so far are good answers, but if you are actually considering a switch and you want to narrow down the list a bit, I would personally consider the BSDS as the most likely to provide a generally functional desktop.

Before actually doing any switching,from either Windows or Mac to another operating system, you probably want to ask two questions:

1) What do I want my OS to do?

2) Will my hardware still work with (insert OS)?

Linux and the BSDs both provide distros with a generally functional desktop, though you may not be able to use the particular application you used before switching, you can ussaully find at least one alternative that will work on Linux, BSD, (probably any *nix OS, but you might have to compile from code on the more esoteric ones). When i say "general use" I mean: Word Processing, Edit Graphics, Browse Web, Spreadsheats, etc.

Linux supports more hardware than the other free OSs (and, when you consider 'obsolete' hardware, probably more than Microsoft or Apple, as well) but you should check your specific hardware agianst the specific distrubution / OS you want to use.

If you want to run a server, Linux, any BSD, or Solaris should all work great.

Of course, this is only to my knowledge, and I've mainly experiance with Linux, Windows, and DOS (and, to a lesser degree FreeBSD), so I don't know as much about things like Solaris or OS X.

If you check out distrowatch, looking at the most popular distros isn't a bad idea. It's true that it's not always the best that is the most popular, but since a free OS relies on communtity for support, you know that a popular distro will, at least, have a large community of users.

[Pseudonomous]

Even DOS is UNIX like.

Sorry to double post, but this isn't true. DOS is very much, NOT like UNIX. It doesn't have a file ownership system, it doesn't use the same kind of filesystem encoding, and all the "slashes" are backwards.

In as much as it is a kernal + a command shell, I guess it IS unix like, but I think that, overall, their behavior is quite different.

[Xanatos Craven]

Sorry to double post, but this isn't true. DOS is very much, NOT like UNIX. It doesn't have a file ownership system, it doesn't use the same kind of filesystem encoding, and all the "slashes" are backwards.

In as much as it is a kernal + a command shell, I guess it IS unix like, but I think that, overall, their behavior is quite different.
Oh, and don't forget, no real sort of multitasking.

[fiftyMIPsparc]

I use Multics. But really only to play Unreal Tournament. :)

[BreakDecks]

Sss-pc
Sss-core

[x1a4]

Nexenta (http://www.nexenta.org/) GNU/OpenSolaris (http://www.opensolaris.org/) is a nice operating system which uses GNU userland on top of the OpenSolaris kernel.

BeOS (http://www.bebits.com/app/2680) was a very nice operating system while it lasted.
BeOS-inspired Haiku (http://www.haiku-os.org/)
IBM's AIX
Sun's Solaris of course
RISC OS
HP-UX
Novell's NetWare
NeXTSTEP
OPENSTEP
System V

[tact]

Sun's Project Looking Glass hasn't been mentioned yet (I think).

http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/

[FFighter]

Of course, there is the Sega CD OS, just insert a CD-GAME and it'll play. It will even play audio CDs, and the splash-screen rocks!

Kidding.. :P

[p_quarles]

What about GN¥/£inux?

[tact]

Ohhh... not to forget DESQview and DESQview/X

I started with CP/M. Then DR-DOS after a change to x86 hardware.

DESQ/view and the X derivative were my first departures from DOS looking for multitasking on the x86 platform. I did give the then current ms-windows a try but the "co-operative" multitasking model wasn't as good as DESQview so I stayed with DESQview/X until OS/2 came out.

Stayed with OS/2 through several versions for years on a succession of x86 machines until 1998, when I was bored half way through a year on an Antarctic base - downloaded the then current RedHat Linux (v5 I think).

Went back to OS/2 until about 2yrs ago when I re-looked at Linux. All linux now. (tho have VM's and spare HDD's installed with a variety of other OS' for play).

Cheers.

[cod3rbro]

Maybe you can find it on http://distrowatch.com/

[init1]

Linux
FreeBSD
NetBSD
OpenBSD
Hurd
Debian Hurd
Debian kFreeBSD
Solaris
DOS
PC-DOS
FreeDOS
FDOS
BugOS
BeOS
Haiku
MonaOS
ReactOS
Plan9
Minix
KolibriOS
Menuet
SolarOS
Visopsys
There are many others too

[eragon100]

EcomStation

Riscos

And what is "bugOS"?? :lolflag:

[fatality_uk]

What about GN¥/£inux?

:lol:

[samjh]

Don't forget IRIX: Silicon Graphics' spin on UNIX.

Oh, and before Mac OS, there were the Macintosh System family, versions 1 to 7.


Note I said QDOS... I hope that is correct as I read that DOS was based on QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). Name later changed to 76-DOS or something like that?No, it was QDOS, then 86-DOS, and then PC-DOS (used on the original IBM PC). But QDOS was itself based on CP/M.

There was also MP/M, which as the name might suggest, was CP/M's multi-user cousin. :)

[aaaantoine]

PalmOS.
The custom OSes found in the Nintendo GameCube, Wii, Sony PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Microsoft XBOX, XBOX360.

Oh, are you referring to x86 compatible operating systems? Nevermind, then.

[kaldor]

There are _LOADS_ of other operating systems. Windows, Mac, and Linux are just the most used and widespread. Go to wikipedia and look up operating systems, huge list.

[zmjjmz]

Windows, Linux, and MacOS are just the major _current desktop_ operating systems.
There were a lot of old ones, and a lot of recent ones that are for embedded devices.

[Sporkman]

Trs-dos