Alternate operating systems...

[Uitlander]

Anyone here knowledgeable in MenuetOS, AuroraUX, or SkyOS?

[notfred]

Welcome to TR!

I'd actually never heard of any of those before but a quick Google throws up good links to them and Wikipedia articles about them, thanks for broadening my knowledge.

[Dirge]

I think the SkyOS developer has ceased development and is looking to on sell his project. Check out OSnews and search for stories on SkyOS. At one point it was a very promising and fast developing project.

[just brew it!]

Yeah, I remember reading about SkyOS a few years ago, then nothing.

[Dirge]

The Wikipedia entry for MenuetOS is quite interesting and it is cool the entire OS is written in assembly. Though I have noticed the 64-bit license is proprietary. There is also KolibriOS (a fork of MenuetOS).

If you are interested in a Windows NT clone there is ReactOS.

The Hurd is another really cool alternative OS, and it now has two different distributions debian and Arch Hurd.

[pikaporeon]

And of course to all the old BeOS fans there's haiku

[liquidsquid]

Whatever happened to GeoWorks? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_%2816 ... _system%29

[naql]

Syllable is pretty neat but I don't know how often it is updated or how modern the hardware support it.

http://web.syllable.org/pages/index.html