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If you could make a non-linux OS go mainstream, which one would you pick? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I make the specification of non-linux because otherwise this would just become a thread full of obscure distros that do the same thing as a million other distros.

Some lesser known OSs:

AROS - based on Amiga OS, has some derivatives like IcarOS and MorphOS
Haiku - based on BeOS
Redox - Unix-like, made in Rust (might technically count as linux?)
Serenity - Unix-like, very late 90s look and feel
Kolibri - Tiny OS, the image is ~44MB. It also has a smaller version that fits in a single floppy.
PhantomOS - When 3 Russians decide to turn everything about a typical OS upside down.

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[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I would travel back in time and make Acorn RISC OS go mainstream. It's a light OS with a full desktop environment, capable of playing video and rendering anti-aliased fonts, that boots all from ROM and runs on an 8MHz ARM CPU and 512 KB RAM.

I said "go back in time" because I'm not sure how advanced it is compared to modern systems, it's single-user only and has cooperative multitasking, instead of preemptive.

[–] Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PalmOS as an alternative to Android/ios

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Do you mean the successor WebOS? Cause I thought that was pretty cool when I test-drove it in a mobile store.