[lotuseclat79]

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.

-- Tom

[Deagon]

That's some good reading, Thanks for sharing

[absolutezero1287]

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.

[lotuseclat79]

Originally Posted by absolutezero1287

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,

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.

-- Tom