From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 11:19:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E1CAA0 for ; Sat, 10 May 2014 11:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm15-vm4.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm15-vm4.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.115.35]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5D58F6 for ; Sat, 10 May 2014 11:18:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.196.81.156] by nm15.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 May 2014 11:16:25 -0000 Received: from [98.139.221.250] by tm2.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 May 2014 11:16:25 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp120.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 May 2014 11:16:25 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bellsouth.net; s=s1024; t=1399720585; bh=NcfWEqp7wBDs2KPWKrS/W9aRqtUh3cZ7Y8VMqabGZIg=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:Message-ID:Date:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:From:To:References:Subject; b=Izkw2gAayezJm/5ybNTKnEoiPNdDCXYUTuRU9wbTEKb2nK8Hkjk/sulHktzZheh3OBPe55P5ZAMgeiKLLhOTY67yzujIGsaFf2r23x23blTA6PknWbhB21fk1UxpXgTQhYBGEmtYLQIHyGvftOFZ8LQhNA04ZuqVVdKrsbw5R1g= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 23508.79629.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <23508.79629.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 11:16:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: V8YJ1tYVM1lvpHnv0bFodxfBi._7e6hDSCtJZ2EDhxPsJf0 6n6D87FNz6DZg8R9xJ9jLNQE0k9070kZvAjUTF0G4SfjaUnwWVsz53prjqhj S63QhBm5X9eeVHAsPXRdDuIHikXVLUpNvNr3AWYVpxRT8EIjuwAdQkYP9kkv 9coatA47EiflK3XKsoIW7iYNRw7mpigsA0uA5r9cAoGaInyrhG3mjdGp7kaq hBZ.t93qcUoRuV2z2BYT8ygqsgSAZRlH1JajqoZbpRgZBDnz8U6U7FpybjSf WCIOULOV6eSq8rjqXhT01sIKmCwXma.GGHkQwtJc79yirCK11VrI3Ox4a2W4 8gsG_CRkuWPAfu1KQxA8A3x9vPanKOxEnTYHFKlRCpYDvzYy_k6r.2ZWPhIZ G6eRq3RhQwhBjf7z_BG2XDDU_BipoCh9x_RwqycT4qieoAdzY4L0.REq8Ahe 9WT6LWz4BNUsG79rQ7K5lOA.h5z0YylV22AwX_UI4bVKbyNgmWM5ZncLbvo2 dbqRlQzbb8EYTVIQALswMgjI_BghEleA6ps4fBQxgux2LSsYORd_2 X-Yahoo-SMTP: Kz_aW1.swBBYof3zAD7.RWzXz9ZAQVDMml1VADsbgPT4Kq79LC0- X-Rocket-Received: from localhost (mueller6724@96.28.178.143 with plain [98.139.221.42]) by smtp120.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 May 2014 11:16:24 +0000 UTC From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1399467508.4488.45.camel@archlinux> Subject: Re: Obscure operating systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 11:19:00 -0000 On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 15:49 +0300, velocidade da luz wrote: > Anyone here using PC-BSD, PureDarwin, GhostBSD, AnonymOS, (Amnesiac) > Incognito, eComStation, Syllable , ReactOS, Haiku, or MenuetOS? I'm > planning on trying these, and would like to hear of users' experiences > (good or bad). Thanks. PC-BSD is actually a dressed-up FreeBSD rather than a separate OS. I never tried it, lookked like too much graphic hot air. I used OS/2 from 1.3 to Warp 4. Then, after a freeze or crash, CHKDSK, running automatically on reboot, ran amok and trashed my hard drive data. I was never again able to boot OS/2 after that, even from floppies. I later tried eComStation demo CD but was not favorably impressed. I think Pure Darwin is some years behind now. I downloaded ReactOS 0.3.15 installation ISO and burned to CD, but it failed to boot. I was thinking of trying to build ReactOS from source and install to USB stick, but there could be many snags on my modern hardware and GPT-partitioned hard drives. You missed Minix 3 in the list of obscure OSes, but Minix 3 seems far behind other quasi-Unix OSes in what it can do, judging from their website. Tom