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ITT: Obscure ass operating systems
List as many as you possibly can
i'll start:
-Corel Linux
-Linspire/Lindows
-SymbOS
-RISC OS
OpenBSD
>>51636449
How do you define Obscure?
Windows 8 or 10 are obscure for me.
TempleOS
Who the fuck is Thomas Roo?
>>51636890
>Thomas Roo
Did you mean John Galt?
>>51636881
I'm tempted to actually install it, but I'm scared I'll get schizophrenia
>>51636449
Haiku
AmigaOS
ReactOS
Microware OS-9. They got dicked by Apple when Apple decided to use the same name and had better lawyers.
>>51637273
Yes. All 50 hobbyists still using their CoCos 8 years after Tandy stopped production of the final model, shook their fists in the air at Apple.
Linux.
>>51636856
OpenBSD's current tagline: Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!
My proposal, for a new tagline: Better 32-bit UEFI support than Debian. Also, not a pile of shit.
>>51636890
Epic meme my friend
>>51638157
:^)
>>51637003
i installed it yesterday. i havent found a use for it but it is cool as fuck and the install takes literally 3 seconds in a vm so it isnt like its a huge timesink. give it a go, its pretty neat you cia nigger
>>51637575
Doubt they cared. Everyone using it for embedded systems however didn't enjoy having their communities polluted with Mac users asking how to cut and paste.
Haiku.
RetroBSD
windows 1
>>51636864
if you consider windows 8 or 10 to be obscure, then you probably insist on getting your underwear from Kmart.
GEOS. Not my pic, but I did use this for some educational engineering software in an EE class a very long time ago. It wasn't on the c64, but was still GEOS.
QNX, a real-time x86 Unix. Used it in university for a while, because it was strange and different.
Mint. It was a tiny unix-like system 8 bit amiga or atari boxes. Used to see it, haven't in ages though, and now days searches are polluted with Linux Mint results.
Also there was a 16bit Mac finder for the iiGS, that was used to run color HyperCard close to ten years before it was available for 32bit macs. I don't know its proper name, but I used it in school for HyperCard.
NeXTSTEP. I still use Window Maker sometimes because it's such a solid wm. I just wish someone would fork the project and bring it into the future, make it look nicer and work with gtk3 better.
>>51636449
MenuetOS. written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language
>>51636856
Been trying to get that to run from a USB flash drive with softraid crypto.
It installs, but for some reason it skips the installboot part.
>>51640008
Hard to get it to run well in qemu, but it can be done. I had some very limited luck getting it in virtualbox :( It will run pretty well on some late p4 systems though.
Oh yeah, this reminded me A/UX. It downstairs run on basilisk II lady I checked, but there is an emu specifically for it. Shoebill.
https://github.com/pruten/shoebill
>>51640064
KolibriOS
>>51640122
Shit you can run A/UX in an emulator now? Nice.
>>51640134
windows with BOB
>>51639992
>Mint. It was a tiny unix-like system 8 bit amiga or atari boxes.
You mean this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiNT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpareMiNT
wiki says it requires an 32cpu...
>>51636449
What emulator is that?
>>51636449
Linspire was fucking great though.
>>51639989
Not that guy, but what's wrong with underwear from Kmart?
>>51640122
>It downstairs run on basilisk II lady I checked,
I think A/UX requires an mmu, shoebill is the first apple emulator to do that.
GEM
Is OS/2 obscure if all of /g/ wasn't born yet?
>>51640778
I remember in the early 90s some department / electronics stores had floor model PC's - and some of them had OS/2 loaded (instead of Win3.1). I always loved messing with those - it just felt so different and strange (in a good way).
Anyone still use Solaris10 at work?
>>51640778
windows nt was boot strapped from os/2
>>51640122
I just got a Quadra 700 that I'll probably put A/UX on soon, but I'm thinking of waiting it out for a 900/950 instead.
Pretty cool that you can emulate it now, though.
>>51640843
me
not at work though
RTIL Linux
>>51640416
Well don't I feel silly now :D
Guess my memory of it was slightly skewed. Thank you!
>>51639992
>KERNAL
>>51640483
I bet you consider windows 10 to be obscure
>>51636449
I like Easy Peasy Linux. I ended up putting it on an old laptop for my father. Since he's half blind the giant button layout makes it easier to use. Shame it's not updated anymore. I actually really like the large icon/button layout for everything. It's simplistic.
Before there was Linux, those of us who wanted a Unix like OS but weren't rich used Coherent. Ran a multi line BBS on it since DOS and Windows were too retarded to do it. Eventually moved on to OS/2 with Synchronet.
>>51636449
SymbOS is an oddly cool project. Surprisingly fast and useful for what it is, too.
>>51643731
I'm surprised I never heard of this. Sounds neat.
>>51636449
HaikuOS
QNX RTOS
GEOS
MorphOS
AROS
SkyOS
ReactOS
OpenVMS
MIMIX
Just a few 'popular' obscure OS.
>>51639989
>niggers in charge of logic
>niggers thinking they're allowed to have opinions
Apply logic to what you post on 4chan, Jamal.
IRIX
I love my SGI Indy
menuetOS.
written completely in x86 assembly which is just amazing, but it's not functional enough to be a daily driver.
>>51640129
they stole code from menuetos, which is why it's not open source anymore.
fuck them.
