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Niche Operating Systems

Posted by michael on from the help-i-have-too-many-programs-that-run-on-my-OS dept.

Eugenia writes: "So, you think that BeOS or AtheOS are niche Operating Systems? Well, you haven't seen anything yet. OSNews provides a list and short description of the most active and most promising Operating Systems written by individuals or small teams just for the fun of it or because they have a dream of how the perfect OS should be (is there such a thing though?). Some of them, like SkyOS for example, are even quite far down the line in terms of usability and advancements."

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  1. DV editing with Mac OS by green+pizza · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    in my neck of the woods Win32 variants are on the desktop and Linux and Solaris are in the server room. Though we do have a few Apple G4 machines running Mac OS 9.2 for video editing of MiniDV and DVCAM. The OS and software have been working great and we're looking foward to seeing what will come about with Mac OS X. Our local VAR has been showing off some HD video work (Sony HDCAM source through a Cine card with Ciprico 7000 fibrechannel RAIDs via an ATTO FC card). Looks neat, but a bit kludgy compared to doing the same thing on, say, an SGI Octane2. (Plus I'd take IFX Piranha over FinalCutPro any day).

  2. Eunice??? by Mama's+Family+Troll · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Eunice?? Where the sam hell are you?

  3. Re:How about OS's that should be brought back? by consumer · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    One of the strange aspects of computing is that everything has to be started from scratch and nobody seems willing to even consider the lessons learned in the past.

    This might be partly due to the fact that employers insist on hiring the youngest programmers possible, preferably straight out of college, so that they can work the hell our of them. People who are old enough to remember how things were done before have all been relegated to management positions where they have little effect on the actual code.

  4. Slashdot this! by Ace905 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  5. Re:How about OS's that should be brought back? by hexx · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The USA killed ~7000 innocent Somalian civilians in -98 to kill one single warlord. Nice.
    I would email you but you don't post your address. What actions are you referring to in your signature above?

  6. Re:How about OS's that should be brought back? by On+Lawn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There was a book written about this episode (can't remember the title). It was a Ranger battalion caught in a military action underprepared and undersupported. It has been widely studied as a military blunder like a SEAL episode in Panama where they tried to take a airport hanger. Considering how armed a Ranger battalion is, and their training *and* that they were backed in a corner you can expect lots of casualties. The book insinuates the problem was an incompetant commander in chief.

    However even in the article, the highest count mentioned was from the Somalian Government at 1000+, with the latest estimates hovering around 500. Another hopeless effort to wrest an article into something it isn't.

    This was a US/UN action known and condoned by world diplomats, and was not targeted at civilians. That was also mentioned by the article.