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10-Aug-2009, 04:25 PM #1
Free Operating Systems That Aren't Linux
Free Operating Systems That Aren't Linux (5 web pages).

We look beyond the traditional open source OS of choice to other free options such BSD, OpenSolaris, HaikuOS, ReactOS, and PureDarwin.

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That's some good reading, Thanks for sharing
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31-Aug-2009, 11:57 PM #3
If I was going to use a non-Linux open source OS it'd be one of the BSDs. HaikuOS is actually really nice but it still has a long way to go. ReactOS is based on Windows so maybe they'll succeed in fixing some things.

OpenSolaris...maybe. I don't really see a huge advantage that opensolaris has over BSD.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, PureDarwin is no longer being actively developed. If this is true, its sad because its one OS that I really wanted to try.
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If I was going to use a non-Linux open source OS it'd be one of the BSDs. HaikuOS is actually really nice but it still has a long way to go. ReactOS is based on Windows so maybe they'll succeed in fixing some things.

OpenSolaris...maybe. I don't really see a huge advantage that opensolaris has over BSD.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, PureDarwin is no longer being actively developed. If this is true, its sad because its one OS that I really wanted to try.
Hi absolutezero1287,

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From Wikipedia at Darwin (operating system):
On July 25, 2006, the OpenDarwin team announced that the project was shutting down, as they felt OpenDarwin had "become a mere hosting facility for Mac OS X related projects," and that the efforts to create a standalone Darwin operating system had failed. They also state: "Availability of sources, interaction with Apple representatives, difficulty building and tracking sources, and a lack of interest from the community have all contributed to this."[18] The last stable release was version 7.2.1, released on July 16, 2004.[19]

In 2007, the PureDarwin project was launched to continue where OpenDarwin left off, and is currently working to produce a release based on Darwin 9. There is a developer preview available, called "PureDarwin XMas", based on Darwin 9. This release has X11, DTrace, and ZFS[20]. PureDarwin nano is another release of PureDarwin that is supposed to be minimalistic.
See PureDarwin.

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