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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?
This article covers just FOSS or free as in free beer operating systems. Still, it's an interesting list for those who want to check out different alternatives just for the sake of it. A rich list of apps won't be available for any of these.
In the commercial arena I'd bet most people have never heard of eComStation, put out by Serenity Systems. They probably have heard of the OS by the name it bore when it was an IBM product: OS/2. Yep, kids, OS/2 is still being developed, albeit under a different name. If it wasn't so darned expensive I'd be tempted.
If there was ever a poster child for the "not popular enough to write malware for" crowd, OS/2 is it. Same old (really old) M$ security "technology" but nobody cares.
OS/2 had a Windows compatibility layer. I expect it could catch some M$ malware, the same way Wine can now.
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In the commercial arena I'd bet most people have never heard of eComStation, put out by Serenity Systems. They probably have heard of the OS by the name it bore when it was an IBM product: OS/2. Yep, kids, OS/2 is still being developed, albeit under a different name. If it wasn't so darned expensive I'd be tempted.