12 Alternative Operating Systems You Can Use In 2020

If you use a desktop PC or laptop in

2020

, chances are you are using Windows 10 Mac OS or perhaps one of the many Linux distributions out there, but despite what many people believe, there are actually more options than just the The three main

operating

systems

and in this video we will look at 12 incredibly

alternative

operating

systems

that you can use today. Now, the first operating system on our list is actually one of the most interesting operating systems we will talk about. emerged from a revolutionary computer and operating system that was born in the early 90s, originally designed for a platform called B Box B OS was an operating system that over the years of legacy code and backward compatibility such as Mac OS and Windows of the time and focused on offering fast multimedia functions despite being a very robust and efficient platform and even at one point it seemed that it could be the next operating system for Mac before Apple reached an agreement with Steve Jobs, The next computer company failed to build significant market share and the copyright was sold to Palm in 2001.

Various projects used parts of the Vos code afterward, but haiku is a free, open source implementation of BOS. It aims to bring the operating system with its concepts and ideas into the 21st century while retaining compatibility with previous versions of POS programs. Development has been somewhat slow, with work starting in 2001 and the current beta 1 version being released in September 2018, but as it stands it's a fun and usable operating system and it's completely free. One of the main criticisms of Windows over the years has been that it is a closed source operating system and controlled only by Microsoft.

The React OS aims to change that work that started right after the release of Windows 95 and the goal is to eventually have a replacement open source operating system that can completely replace Windows in its mission. The statement on their website says that the main goal of the actual OS project is to provide an operating system that is binary compatible with Windows, so that people used to the familiar Windows user interface will find React OS easy to use. . The ultimate goal of Reactor LS is to allow you to remove Windows and install React OS without the end user noticing the change.

Now, after 21 years of development, it is still considered alpha software that is currently presented complete, but today you will find that a lot of Windows software will work just fine inside. The React OS friend realizes a vision that many industry leaders had, including Steve Jobs. I was talking about this back in the '90s, a time when hardware would no longer be important and users wouldn't have to worry about things like updating their own systems and everything could be taken care of on a friendly server is a bare-bones operating system. open cloud-based that can be accessed from any device that has a modern web browser and integrates them into a new concept called sky computing applications, document file systems and the GUI, all run. within a tab in your browser via Friend Workspace, a user interface based on HTML5 and JavaScript, meaning it can run on any device, from a smartphone to a high-end workstation.

Interestingly, friend also borrows some desktop and file system concepts from a meager operating system and the tried and true operating system that was born at the university of cambridge and ran on the cambridge distributed computing system. Now a little disclaimer. I've been involved in the friend project for a few years, but if you want to try it for yourself, you can. register for a free online account or download the source code and run your own server by heading to your friend website OS comm meaning atari running on any machine Aaron M is actually a virtual machine similar to something like VMware's VirtualBox which is designed to run operating systems designed for the Atari ST and Falcon line of retro computers, this includes the native Atari TOS and also newer third-party operating systems such as free mint magic and the Motorola 60 kay Linux distributions, they claim not to.

It is intended to be an emulator. for Atari machines, although it has a fairly high compatibility rate with classic applications and even contains the custom Falcom chips in the software, the latest version came out in 2017 and can be downloaded as a free live CD image from github which boots on a small Linux Kernel, which means it should work with virtually any PC. Anyone who went to school in Britain in the early to mid 90s will probably be familiar with this upcoming operating system. RISC OS began life on the Acorns range of Archimedes computers, which were the standard computing platform. in the British education sector until the mid to late 90s, first released in 1987, it was designed to be the native operating system for the then new ARM chipset and yes, that's the same ARM platform that's in your smartphone Today Acorn is often referred to as the British Apple and they were a very innovative company that gave many British children their first experience with computers with the akon BBC micro RISC operating system shipped with all ARM based machines.

From 1987 to 1998, when Akon exited the personal computer market and was renamed element14 RISC OS was divided into different projects and companies. The open source version maintained by the RISC OS open team is available for several modern platforms, but was also released a few years ago on the popular Raspberry Pi platform, which really revitalized general interest in RISC. OS and if you have a Raspberry Pi and would like to try it out, it is part of the PI noobs installer or you can get an image from their official website. Morpho s is the first of the updated Amiga-influenced operating systems in This list was originally intended to be a new version of the Amiga operating system written for the then-new PowerPC architecture.

Morpho s updates many of the Amiga's best features for the 21st century and also retains support for many legacy applications that the operating system originally ran on classic Amiga computers. PowerPC accelerator cards, but these days it can also run on standalone PowerPC platforms, such as older PowerPC Macs, so if you have a spare Mac Mini g4 or Power Mac g5, it can really breathe new life into those systems. Morpho s is a paid operating system, but you can download a live CD and run a 30-minute demo to try it out. Future development of Morpho s includes it being ported to modern x64 hardware sometime in the late 1980s.

Windows had a competitor that many believed could become the new default operating system for PCs. The team that provided us with the original hardware and software for the PC platform. Microsoft and IBM teamed up to launch operating system 2, or os/2, as it was abbreviated. Very soon, seeing it as a competitor to its Windows 3.1 platform, Microsoft abandoned it, leaving os/2 in the hands of IBM. It added some very interesting features for the time and when os/2 warp was released in 1995 it offered excellent compatibility with DOS and Windows 3.1, in fact they were often referred to as a better dose than DOS and a better Windows than After approximately nine hundred and ninety million dollars were spent annually on Windows development, OS/2 simply could not topple Microsoft's dominance and at its peak never achieved more than five percent market share in PC operating systems. despite finding uses in embedded applications such as ATMs.

IBM phased out os/2 in the mid-2000s, fast forward to 2017 and finally a new os/2 came to the operating system called ARCA OS. This is a close source commercial operating system that brings os/2 into the modern era. It can run legacy 16-bit and 32-bit operating systems, dual applications, 16-bit Windows applications, dual programs, and much more, while also bringing modern benefits such as support for large hard drives, multi-core support, and large amounts of RAM, but this is really designed for companies that are tied to legacy OS/2 applications and want a more modern way to continue using those systems without starting over, but from What I've read on forums has a following among os/2 users since a long time ago as well as an operating system Ross the eros of research or originally the friend operating system research or the friend replacement operating system is a free open source update to the Amiga operating system. designed for multiple platforms which started life in 1995, the goal was to create a more modern and free replacement for the Commodore Amiga 3.1 workbench and today Ross can be installed on many platforms including standard PC, Mac, there are arm versions For systems like the Raspberry Pi and even a port for the classic 68k Amigo, Ross's icarus desktop version has plenty of useful programs and settings pre-installed and you can run it from a live image.

Solaris is a UNIX-based operating system that originally dates back to 1992. Developed by the powerhouse Sun Microsystems to replace its first Sun operating system Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010 and the operating system continues to this day despite a few years as an open source project at Sun when they dropped Solaris into the opensolaris project Oracle discontinued This basically made Solaris a closed source commercial product again. The open source code was developed into a Solaris-based operating system called illusmos. The core Solaris operating system is now version 11 point 4 and supports the SPARC architecture as well as the x86 and 64 machine standards.

Before Linux existed, there was MINIX, a Unix-like operating system designed for use on microcomputers that originally started in 1987 and has been ported to virtually any platform you can imagine, including standard PCs, the Atari ST classic Mac, Spark Stations, Amigo Arm, and Lots. MINIX has been free and open source since 2000 and version current is 3.0, our third and final Amiga, even though the operating system listed is Amiga OS 4.1. Now this is a proprietary commercial operating system designed for custom PowerPC machines and based on Commodore's classic Amiga iOS 3.1 began development with a poor operating system in the early 2000s as a way to bring the Amiga operating system to the platform.

More powerful PowerPC and the latest version was released in 2016. It retains an updated version of the Amiga workbench. as its user interface and brings with it many modern features, such as network upgrade support for newer graphics cards and larger RAM and disk capacities than the old Commodore versions of Amiga OS 4. They are available for custom Amiga one hardware and a version for classic. Amiga machines with PowerPC accelerators and this version can also run under the win UAE emulation platform. The last and possibly the strangest operating system on the list is Temple OS, a free public domain 64-bit operating system, it was designed by Terry Davis and now Terry. a programmer who worked on vacuum systems after graduating from Arizona State University and began learning 6510 assembly on the Commodore 64.

Terry grew up Catholic and in the mid-1990s began experiencing some manic episodes that eventually led him to a diagnosis of schizophrenia temple s is a very light biblical operating system and Terry claimed that the design of it was ordered by God himself. The user interface is very reminiscent of 80's systems with a 640 by 480 16-color screen. Terry claimed that the limited resolution was to make it easier for children to draw illustrations for God. Terry passed away after being hit by a train in 2018, but the operating system in its final state can still be downloaded today, it is very strange how his mind works, but looking at it It is also an impressive feat that this entire project was created by a single person.

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