Try 10 OSs you've never heard of

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   Try 10 OSes You've Never Heard Of
Fodder for the virtual machine.
I've used 3 of them and I use FreeDOS regularly as a virtual machine.
The other two are ReactOS and Minix which I have a long history with (going back to when it was a command line OS). Tanenbaum's book is a classic.

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Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22158	Quote Reply Topic: Try 10 OSs you've never heard of Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 10:45am
	Try 10 OSes You've Never Heard Of Fodder for the virtual machine. I've used 3 of them and I use FreeDOS regularly as a virtual machine. The other two are ReactOS and Minix which I have a long history with (going back to when it was a command line OS). Tanenbaum's book is a classic.

Randy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: USA, Georgia Posts: 15219	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 2:37pm
	Very fun!

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22158	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 2:40pm
	I can't see going back to the Amiga or Atari but KolibriOS looks interesting if for no other reason than writing a modern OS in assembler is just mind boggling.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29208	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:01pm
	Looks interesting. ReactOS rings a bell...but not loud enough for me to figure out why.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22158	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:04pm
	It reminded me that there are a lot of things out there I want to play around with. I'd totally forgotten about OpenVMS even though it wasn't listed. I've never used VMS, always kind of lusted after a VAX back in the day, think I'm going to put it on my list.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29208	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:18pm
	Just looked at screenshots at the ReactOS web site. Boy. Sure rings a bell...but too softly. So it goes.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22158	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:19pm
	It wasn't bad, I wasn't all that high on it but it wasn't bad.

Randy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: USA, Georgia Posts: 15219	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:23pm
	I believe we talked about it when it was a bit rougher a long time ago. Might be worth hanging onto some of those old Win95/98 games to try on it.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29208	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:30pm
	There is a new Chinese OS out. Read it in a printed computer magazine...probably PC World. Found it here...screenshots and links. Ubuntu made to look like XP. Chinese Pirates Hacked Ubuntu to Look Like Windows XP

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22158	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:35pm
	Hehe, I'm not sure that's a Good Thing. I was disappointed to find that OpenVMS appears to be commercial. I though it had gone open source.

Randy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: USA, Georgia Posts: 15219	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:39pm
	That's been out a while. I think the Chinese did that because MS had caught on to the pirated stuff and they were not getting the updates. VirtualBox seems to be pretty good. It's cross platform.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22158	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2010 at 3:42pm
	VB looks like. I like VPC because with the version of Win 7 I have it included a copy of XP. Not that I've done more than boot it up once but I know it's there.