Looking for a new Operating System?

I have no idea why it took me so long to make this post, but I have a list of OSs that are mostly free. I am going to give links to as many as I can right now, so if you're looking for an OS, read this thread! If anyone else wishes to reply with more links to OSs, then by all means go ahead.

Some of these are based on Linux, some are not, but check out the links and see if you like anything. I know I am supposed to be the OS tester of AO, but I am currently out of boxes. All of mine are now in use, and so I can't test all of these like I would like to do, but if anyone does use them, please reply with a run down of how it looks, how good it is, what you liked, what you did not like much, stuff like that.

AROS:


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http://www.aros.org/download.php





CP/M (Ripped off to create MS-DOS):

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http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Cpm/software/index.html



Misc :

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http://developer.apple.com/darwin/

http://www.kc85.de/download.html

http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd

http://erika.sssup.it/download.shtml

http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/getstart.html

http://elks.sourceforge.net/download/

http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/download.html

http://www.eros-os.org/project/build.html

ftp://freevms.nvg.org/pub/vms/freevms/

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...k/mirrors.html

http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/

http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/

http://www.netbsd.org/Releases/

http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/crux/

http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/download.html

http://www.reactos.com/index.php?tab...ection=reactos

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html

http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmac

http://yamit.sourceforge.net/download.html

http://www.menuetos.org/

http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/

http://www.eros-os.org/

http://www.atari.org/

http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/

http://www.bebits.com/

http://www.openbeos.org/

http://www.yellowtab.com/

http://www.petros-project.com/

http://www.apple.com/macosx/

http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/

http://www.neuconcept.com/thepage/

http://www.qnx.com/

http://www.montagar.com/~patj/freevms.htm

http://www.osdev.org/

http://www.osnews.com/

http://tunes.org/Review/OSes.html

http://cio-today.newsfactor.com/

http://tunes.org/Review/OSes.html





Do you miss DOS? Look here:

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http://www.phystechsoft.com/en/index.html

http://www.freedos.org/

http://www.rdos.net/rdos/index.htm




Like Windows? Didn't think so. Want some options? Look here:

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http://www.winehq.com/

http://www.litepc.com/

http://www.reactos.com/







Need a GUI for DOS? Look here:


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http://sealsystem.sourceforge.net/





"But gore, I need something with business in mind"

Ok:

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http://www.unitedlinux.com/

http://www.redhat.com/

http://www.suse.com

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/





"But gore, I'm a purist".

No prob:

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http://www.debian.org/

http://www.slackware.com





New to Linux? Read here:

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http://www.suse.com

http://www.winlinux.net/

http://distrowatch.com/

http://www.vmware.com/


Looking for BSD? Look Here:

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http://www.bsd.org/

http://www.freebsd.org/

http://www.openbsd.org/

http://www.netbsd.org/

http://www.daemonnews.org/




Want to use Linux at work? No problem:

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http://www.workspot.com/

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This enables you to access Linux without having to install or run Linux yourself. How does it work? Linux runs remotely on the servers of 'WorkSpot', while you access the Linux desktop (full graphical windowed user-interface) through your Web browser on your local computer (or anywhere in the world).

This means that you do not have to install, configure and run Linux yourself.Send and receive email through Workspot, your email address is [email][email protected]

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Screen shot: http://www.freebyte.com/images/workspot_thegimp.jpg


Looking for something small? Look down Memory's Pants ;) Or look here:

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http://www.e-smith.org/

http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/

http://tiny.seul.org/en/




Don't want to install?

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http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html






Want to learn more about Window Managers?

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http://www.kde.org/

http://www.windowmaker.org/

http://www.gnome.org

http://********-e.org


Need links to more OpenSource friendly pages?

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http://freshmeat.net/

http://www.linuxjournal.com/

http://www.desktoplinux.com/

http://www.gnu.org

http://www.fsf.org

http://www.linuxbase.org/





Need Java on Linux?

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http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html





Are you a student? Someone just trying to learn more about Operating Systems? Look here:

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http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tom/nachos/




Now that you have a grasp on Operating systems, how about securing them? Look here:

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Anti Virus:

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Free:

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http://www.vintage-solutions.com/Eng...per/index.html

http://www.free-av.com/

http://www.avast.com/

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/d...php?menu_id=21

http://www.f-prot.com/products/

http://www.handybits.com/vsi.htm

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://www.pandasoftware.com/actives...asp?language=2

http://www.pcpitstop.com/

http://security.symantec.com

http://www.trojanscan.com/

http://www.vcatch.com/download.html



Not Free:

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http://www.authentium.com/

http://www.ealaddin.com/esafe/

http://www.invircible.com/

http://www.srnmicro.com/

http://download.mcafee.com/eval/evaluate2.asp

http://www.nod32.com/products/nt.htm

http://www.pspl.com/

http://www.quickheal.com/default.htm

http://www.kaspersky.com/

http://www.norman.com/

http://www.norton.com/

http://www.pandasoftware.com/

http://www.sophos.com/




Free Virus Prevention:

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http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...em/sdefend.htm

http://www.freebyte.com/bootminder/




E-mail Protection:

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http://www.mailwasher.net/

http://www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest/

http://www.yourtechonline.com/virus.php



Virus Scanner Tests:

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http://www.hackfix.org/

http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/virus_test.shtml

http://www.virusbtn.com/

http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc/naveng.htm





Free Firewalls:

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http://soho.sygate.com/free/default.php

http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html

http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/

http://www.omniquad.com/

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...jsp?lid=nav_za




Encryption:

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http://www.abisoft.net/bd.html

http://www.alcuf.ca/fv.htm

http://www.scramdisk.clara.net/

http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware/default.asp

http://www.gnupg.org/

Holy mother of pund cake! thats a lotta OS's! I like that one that runs remotely, im going to have to look in to that. I smell a sticky.....:p


slick

Theres about 40 office computers that I could try to install it on, but I don't think anyone would be happy when they turn on their computer and it says Loading GRUB: Please select which OS to boot. lol

Looks like you wrote another *sticky*, Gore! :)

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Originally posted here by Negative
Looks like you wrote another *sticky*, Gore! :)

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Haha! Sweet! Did you make my other one sticky to neggy? I feel special, the first sticky in this forum was from me, and the second too, within like a week or so :) Thanks guys. I had fun making this thread.

I'm going to add a link to your post to my desktop.

And then print out 100 copies and post them around my house.

And then read it until I have the entire thing committed to memory.

And then...

In other words, this post is invaluable to me. Thanks gore :D

Later,
mjk

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Originally posted here by mjk
I'm going to add a link to your post to my desktop.

And then print out 100 copies and post them around my house.

And then read it until I have the entire thing committed to memory.

And then...

In other words, this post is invaluable to me. Thanks gore :D

Later,
mjk

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Wow, thanks man. Heh, I'm glad it has helped you. I actually feel good! Well, you're more than welcome. It's good to see that someone can find this that useful. Operating systems is my main area in computing. I don't really know why, but for some reason I get a joy out of playing with new ones, and seeing how each one reacts in different ways.

I do have something I can sort of add to this.

The following is my opinion. Meaning don't take it as a fact of anything, but just my opinion on OSs you may come across in your computing, and what I thought were very good for one reason or another:

Linux : This is one of my favorite OSs. I didn't really use it untill last year, but I have grown to love it. You can configure just about everything you could ever want to, including the programs that it runs. I love Linux, and I use it daily. I use SuSE, Slackware, Debian/Libranet, and Mandrake.

Each one has something I really like about it. Debian and Libranet have one of the coolest command line utilities I have ever used; Apt-get. This has to be one of the best tools I have ever used. I think apt-get should be added to the kernel.

If I can get a good amount of programming done, and I learn to do it will, I would improve on apt-get and add it as a program you can use on any distro, and release it. Slackware has a tool similar called Slapt-get, but I would want it to be used on any Linux system.

SuSE, of course, is one I promote daily. IT has SO many applications. It also seems to go for security. It comes with a firewall I use called SuSEfirewall2. Great wall. It has so much to offer.

Mandrake is another one I use alot. Mandrake has a nice way for updating. It will actually grab all updates for any program you have installed. Something that not to many distros seem to have. They also make it very easy for newbies to learn quickly. And, from what I hear, Mandrake 10 is fast as hell. So the new one should be great.

Slackware....Slackware may be odd for a newbie to try out, as you have to do everything by hand, but it is VERY good. I am using it right now. Slackware aims to be the most UNIX like of any Linux distro. It also uses the same package management system that Free BSD uses. The .tgz. I love it.

Windows XP has to be here because I have to use at least one Windows OS for school and so on. So I picked XP. It has good abilities for music and movies, and plays all my pron.

;)

BeOS was a nice OS, but they didn't know **** about business. It's a shame they went under.

And of course I can't leave without saying something about DOS. DOS works on damn near anything, and has a great amount of hacking tools available, making learning security fairly easy. Also, learning DOS is a good way to do advanced tasks in Windows. Let's face it, there is only so much you can do with a GUI. :)

Hope more people find this as useful as you have.

Wow, I never thought DOS would be good for security... What kind of hacking tools does it have? Are these available in Windows command line too or just 'pure' DOS? Maybe I should find some old junk system and try it out :p. Nah, I would want to do Linux instead. Well anyways... Later.

mjk

DOS has aLOT of security tools if you're willing to look. Remember, their were hackers before there was Windows :)

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Remember, their were hackers before there was Windows

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Excellent comment, even before GUI was a coders dream and Windows wasn't the first decent GUI OS. . I wish to add my kudos to the list who have benefitted from the knowledge in those links. Glad it's a sticky and Thanks gore. Oh and the comment about only doing so much with a GUI, right on. The REAL power in windows is through the command line. That is definitely a list form hell. :)

You're welcome. I might be able to add some more soon, but I'v been busy with work and school and stuff. Not working fast food crap anymore! I make my money sellign now ;)

LindowsOS :D


Since LindowsOS is a Debian Linux distribution it runs Linux-based programs. (Some applications like RPM-based packages may require a file converter such as ALIEN.)

While LindowsOS does not natively run Microsoft Windows applications, you may be able to run some Microsoft Windows programs after you've installed WINE

No MAC :(

Why don't you try VMware it can run one OS atop another; with VMware, you run Office on Windows, which in turn runs on top of Linux..

--Good Luck--

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I will Give you a hint the words with a line under it Are Hyperlinks .Or if you don't feel like clicking on them then you can try the Almighty www.google.com , it knows it all Just type the Word in it and you have it.

Don't mean to bring back an old thread (even if it isn't that old, it's flashing me so it counts :P) but I noticed an error that some other people might get confused by:

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I believe SuSE comes with it, and as for running Mac, well, now that Mac OS is based on BSD, yes, you can run their programs

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This isn't true because the mac is still on PPC so that means ALL the assembly code would be different. The programs for Mac also would look for things that are mac specific, so it wouldn't work. Java and python and other languages like that (I forgot what you call those types) are the only types of programs that would work because the code is the same no matter what OS you are on.

Actually, most UNIX programs have begun beng ported to Mac OS X. As for Assembler....Name a few programs you use that were actually written in assembler.

The term I think you're looking for is called "Platform independent"...Or "Pain in the ass".

I know a few Mac people who use *NIX based tools, and a few who have started using them because the tools for BSD seem to work fine. I don't use Macs so I'm not going to say every tool works, but from what I understand, they a lot of the apps have been ported already. I didn't say you could load up a BSD tool on a Mac, I meant they have been ported.

Ahh, ok, they got ported. I get ya know!

I thought this site should be added to the list
It lists new releases of well known linux operating systems and other things.
http://www.distrowatch.com/

Alrighty, I just updated this thing and fixed some typos, and made it look better. The next step is going through alllllll those links to see if they all work, please report any broken links you find so I can take them out.

Gore, Its 1:30am and its snowing in Texas! im bored and cold. anyway i went thru ALL of your links and here are the bad ones i found:

Top Section

http://www.menuetos.org/download.htm
http://www.poweros.de/download.html
http://www.qnx.com/monitor/404.html
http://www.v2os.cx/
http://vsta.sourceforge.net/
http://meos.sourceforge.net/index2.htm
http://www.beosjournal.org/
http://www.osnews.com/phorum/
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/oses.html

Linux Section

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3

Windows Manager Section

http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/main.html
It said " Server cannot be found... u know the usual error.

P.S. Keep in mind im not your bitch it was just a favor




:D - Tyler

Gore any chance on putting some info up on the Detuxx linux. you've made suggestions that you have already installed it before, so i was wondering if the Os Guru could do a write up on it..

Cheers
f2b

Thanks man. I'll get that rollin'. And no I'm not doing much on that it's meant to be hard as hell ;)

Ok added some stuff, and fixed those links. :)

Gore i noticed that Phlack Is not included in your list so i thought i would just mention it in a hope to see it put with the list. ;)

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PHLAK is a modular live security Linux distribution (a.k.a LiveCD). PHLAK comes with two light gui's (fluxbox and XFCE4), many security tools, and a spiral notebook full of security documentation. PHLAK is a derivative of Morphix, created by Alex de Landgraaf.

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cheers
front2back

Here's another Distro i came across. aLinux i downloaded it and the GUI is sweet.
anyhow carn't see it on your list, maybe add it.?
find it HERE

I found that majority of there mirrors to download it sucked.! i mean 3kb on a 5mb cable connection is a little slow.!
Anyhow if you download it with your linux torrent the speeds are a lot better.
Download it Here.
Just click the alinux-12.5.torrent and start downloading the file..

Which OS would be best for video-audio editing?

IRIX on an SGI.

Uhh, up until two weeks ago, I've used windows. In short, I'm an idiot. Could you please elaborate?

SGI boxes are top of the line for media. IRIX is a form of UNIX. When it comes to audio and video, nothing beats them even though Mac weenies tell you to use Mac OS.

Or use SUSE Linux and install all the media tools.

Gore. Dude! I love this post, just forgot to tell you.

Thanks :)

couple of things:

1. you seem to "forget" Ubuntu which (IMHO) is the most newbie friendly Linux

2. bow before apt-get

3. Slack even though "pure" is kinda bloated. Gore, instead try Zenwalk Linux. You will love it

4. I'd "piss" on OSX but maddox is has said it better

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse....gi?u=macs_cant

Ubuntu didn't really exist when I made this. I think on one of the pages I brought that up when someone else said it but I didn't look, I pruned it when a flame war went on.