In this thread we'll talk about less common operating systems such as QNX, Haiku, Plan 9, OS/2 and so on.
Exotic/Niche Operating Systems Thread
Lucas Taylor
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Gavin Smith
that looks really nice.
there used to be a CDE like shell for DOS but I still have not been able to find it
Liam Young
Not GEM?
Leo Russell
no it literally had the same title bar, the same close and maximize buttons as in the pic related, but it was on DOS. CDRom Today used it for their DOS menu for demos. I haven't been able to find one since.
Easton Morgan
I used kinda obscure variant of Linux called Xandros (2.5 & 3.0). Was pretty nice, had this program called Crossovers, which allowed you to install/run MS Office if you wanted. Latest version of Xandros released was v 4.0. (2006)(Don't got it). After that, Xandros fell off the map. Xandros, was billed as Windows Replacement, so they made it as easy/windows like as possible which for long time windows user was a godsend.
William Roberts
Also used BeOS as a main system for almost a year or two, it worked fine for most everything I needed it, plus I had shit specs and BeOS increased the stability and what I was able to do more with it than with Windows.
Jacob Morris
Was it that obscure? I installed it on my brothers computer and he used it for a few years before getting tired of it. He wanted to get away from XP problems, which there were many, and he was pretty happy with Xandros, which i stole from the internet.
Isaiah Carter
Well you don't see many talking about it/mentioning it anymore and torrents of it all dead. The last release, v 4 oce, the torrents of that all died quick. After 2006, Xandros died, least in terms of os. They still have website but they do other shit now. Wish to hell I grabbed v 4, but I was happy with version 3 at the time.
Jordan Hall
QNX demo disk was really impressive, all that stuff packed just on single 1.44M floppy and it just worked.
Juan Butler
>Well you don't see many talking about it/mentioning
It was around at a weird time, the other alternative to it was Lycoris, and they were competing with free alternatives, Xandros marketted itself towards the home user not the corporate market, very few home users would be looking for an alternative as far as I know. The ones who were open to such, could just install other distros which were more user friendly. Also, at the same time, Ubuntu was starting to give out free CDs to install and run on your PC without any exprience, it was a better user exprience for people who never actually touched linux.
In short, Xandros, didn't adapt and died.