Try 10 OSes You’ve Never Heard Of

“After a wave of operating system releases, it’s easy to become
somewhat bored with the software side of computing. Windows 7 is
here and looking like the ‘real’ Vista for many; Mac OS X 10.6,
meanwhile, adds spit-shine to Leopard and gives its engine a good
tuning too. In the Linux camp, distributions are taking regular
steps forward in usability. But it’s all become rather routine; a
case of incremental improvement rather than revolution.

“So where’s all the real fun happening? Where are the radical
new ideas, the Wild West code commits and the geekery and hackery
that really drive innovation? Well, it’s all going on in the
alternative operating system world. There are hundreds of projects
in varying stages of development, from small, one-man-band shows to
serious attempts at mounting an assault on the desktop.

“We’re going to look at 10 of the most intriguing open-source
operating systems in this brave new world. In most cases these are
available as CD ISO images that you can burn to CD-Rs and boot up
for testing if you fancy it. Alternatively, a simpler approach is
to use a PC emulator such as VirtualBox or Qemu. With these and
similar tools you can use ‘.iso’ image files (or ‘.flp’ floppy disc
images) as virtual drives, so there’s no need to write any physical
media.”

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