Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 11:16:25 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Obscure operating systems Message-ID: <23508.79629.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <COL128-W86FA85E5E7929B41D18E15904E0@phx.gbl> <1399467508.4488.45.camel@archlinux>
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On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 15:49 +0300, velocidade da luz wrote:
> Anyone here using PC-BSD, PureDarwin, GhostBSD, AnonymOS, (Amnesiac)
> Incognito, eComStation, Syllable , ReactOS, Haiku, or MenuetOS? I'm
> planning on trying these, and would like to hear of users' experiences
> (good or bad). Thanks.
PC-BSD is actually a dressed-up FreeBSD rather than a separate OS. I never tried it, lookked like too much graphic hot air.
I used OS/2 from 1.3 to Warp 4. Then, after a freeze or crash, CHKDSK, running automatically on reboot, ran amok and trashed my hard drive data. I was never again able to boot OS/2 after that, even from floppies. I later tried eComStation demo CD but was not favorably impressed.
I think Pure Darwin is some years behind now.
I downloaded ReactOS 0.3.15 installation ISO and burned to CD, but it failed to boot.
I was thinking of trying to build ReactOS from source and install to USB stick, but there could be many snags on my modern hardware and GPT-partitioned hard drives.
You missed Minix 3 in the list of obscure OSes, but Minix 3 seems far behind other quasi-Unix OSes in what it can do, judging from their website.
Tom
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