In what FOS OS(es) you are interested other than gnu/linux

[asifnaz]

I am a great enthusiast of free and open source OSes .

Like:

Freebsd:
since its based on Unix its ridiculously stable . It has great potential but lacks the
user-friendly installer and eye candy looks .

Freedos:
it is a MS Dos clone .

React OS:
It is in development (version 0.312) it mimics the Windows in every possible way and is compatible with windows apps/drivers . But it has better security . good for those who are average users known only to windows .

Haiku:
It is BeOS like OS . it is in its aplha stage (alpha 3 will be release in couple of weeks ) its good to play in VM .

Open solaris/open indiana :

I haven't used these so can't say anything about those .


share your experience / views

and please add if you know some other OS(es) which I didn't' mention here .

I would love to know about other ones .

thank you

[PrinceSharma]

If you are asking about interest, I'll have to say I'm darn interested in *-BSDs. In fact started using Free-BSD 8.1 as a VM some time before.

And about Open-Solaris, I have used 2010 version for some months as I handle Solaris boxes along with Linux at my workplace, it was, for me, much like *-BSD, very stable, easy to handle but no bling bling and not ready as a mainstream desktop OS.

[elija]

I like BSD and have looked at Haiku but don't really have time to play with it. Maybe when it goes stable.

Then there are things like Menuet which is more a hobbyist OS to see how far an operating system system can be pushed in pure assembler. It's truly astounding and will cold boot a VM to a good looking GUI in about 2 seconds and it's just that fast in use

[rasmith3530]

After attending the Flourish 2011 conference in Chicago, I decided to check out PC-BSD (Hubble Edition), a port of the FreeBSD system. Unfortunately, it would not completely install on my little ASUS Eee 900 netbook, and did not do much better on my HP laptop. It seemed slow compared to the Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions that I am used to, and software packages seemed quite bloated by comparison. I am going to keep an eye on it however, as I've heard that major changes for the better are in the works.

[ryokimball]

Perhaps a bit off-topic, but I've had a few friends "pursuing higher education" that have done operating system design classes and I always enjoy listening in on their troubles. I've never even seen their end-results, but it all sounds like fun.

[cerealad]

Have left Ubuntu as the 11 came up with Unity. Now using Mint - same Ubuntu, but it doesn't make me go clicking among applications, other application, more applications, all applications just to start one.