2011/8/27, Michael C. Robinson: >> > menuetOS Syllable Visopsys ReactOS Linux Windows7 >> >> Can you mention some pros and cons, in particular of the lesser >> known first 3 items on the list?
> Okay, menuetOS was mentioned by someone else and I've heard of it, but I > don't know much about it. A fork of Menuet is Kolibri: http://www.kolibrios.org/ But when talking about that "OS-es for ordinary people", IMHO more popularity gains Haiku http://haiku-os.org/ and Icaros-Desktop http://www.icarosdesktop.org/ (based on AROS http://aros.sourceforge.net/ ). But still these are "niche OS-es" presently. > Linux, various flavors, is the premier free operating system. Add > wine to Linux and gain access to a fair number of Windows applications. > Linux has been slowly gaining on the Desktop. There are many user > groups to help you use Linux effectively. The application list is > growing. Linux, unlike Syllable, Visopsys, MenuetOS, and ReactOS is > stable and mature. Linux, unfortunately, is not light weight requiring > almost as much processing power as Windows 7 depending on what you are > doing with it. No, it's not that "heavy" - if you choose the "lightweight" distro, and when you select the installed packages sane way. > Linux is what you install if you have a Pentium 4 or > better, Pentium 3 is possible for a server. For desktop Pentium III/700 with 768 MB RAM still can offer pleasant "user experience" in most cases. Of course, not when you choose Ubuntu or SuSE (these are examples of quite "heavyweight" distros). ...and still you can work quite normally even using Pentium II/400 with 256 MB RAM. I agree: it will work slower than using dual-Athlons of today, or other multicores. For the Windows (or OSX) users quite interesting can be somewhat less known distribution: Gobolinux ( http://gobolinux.org/ ), because of its modern filesystem hierarchy structure, similar to the one used in OSX ( http://www.osnews.com/story/20195/GoboLinux_and_Replacing_the_FHS ) Needless to say, Gobo is "lightweight" as well. Well, there are also several BSD-like OS-es: NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD... - with much lesser "desktop importance". -- Z. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
