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Below are only a few samples of other Operating System you might want to know.

 AMIGAOS 4.1 

Although AmigaOS is a veteran in the field (many have fond memories of
the original Amiga (computer), its current version is a fully modern OS.
It only runs on specific PowerPC-based hardware platforms. The
company ACube is currently marketing and distributing AmigaOS
and is going to bundle the OS with their motherboards.





HAIKU

Haiku is an open source project aimed at recreating and continuing the 
development of the BeOS operating system (which Palm Inc. bought and 
then discontinued). Haiku was initially known as OpenBeOS but changed 
its name in 2004. Haiku is compatible with software written for BeOS.




REACTOS

ReactOS is an operating system designed to be compatible with Microsoft
Windows software. The project started in 1998 and today it can run many
Windows programs well. The ReactOS kernel has been written from scratch
 but the OS makes use of Wine to be able to run Windows applications.




SYLLABLE

Syllable is a free and open source operating system that was forked in
 2002 from AtheOS, an AmigaOS clone. It’s intended as a lightweight
 and fast OS suitable for home and small office users.




SKYOS

SkyOS is a closed source project written by Robert Szeleney and volunteers.
 It originally started as an experiment in OS design. It’s intended to be an
 easy-to-use desktop OS for average computer users. Well-known applications
 such as Firefox have been ported to run on SkyOS.




MORPHOS

MorphOS is a lightweight, media-centric OS build to run on PowerPC
processors. It is inspired by AmigaOS and also includes emulation to be
able to run Amiga applications.



AROS 

AROS is a lightweight open source OS designed to be compatible with
AmigaOS 3.1 but also improve on it. The project was started in 1995 and
can today be run on both PowerPC and IBM PC compatible hardware.
It also includes an emulator that makes it possible to run old Amiga applications.





MENUETOS

MenuetOS, also known as MeOS, is an operating system written entirely
in assembly language which makes it very small and fast. Even though it
 includes a graphical desktop, networking and many other features it still
fits on a single 1.44 MB floppy disk (for our younger readers, that was
the USB stick of the 80s and early 90s 😉 ).





DEXOS

DexOS is an open source operating system designed to work like the
minimalistic ones on gaming consoles, but for PCs. Its user interface
is inspired by video game consoles and the system itself is very small
 (supposedly this one also fits on a floppy disk, like MenuetOS) and
 the OS can be booted from several different devices. Its creators have
 tried to make it as fast as possible.





VISOPSYS

Visopsys is a one-man hobby project by programmer Andy McLaughlin.
The development began in 1997 and the OS is both open source and free.
 Visopsys stands for VISual Operating SYStem.






Chrome OS

Google’s Chrome OS is built on the Linux kernel, but it replaces the desktop
and user-level software with a specialized desktop that can only run the Chrome
 browser and Chrome apps.

Chrome OS isn’t really a general-purpose PC operating system — instead,
it’s designed to be preinstalled on specialized laptops, known as Chromebooks.
However, there are ways to install Chrome OS on your own PC.





SteamOS

Valve’s SteamOS is currently in beta. Technically, Steam OS is just a Linux
distribution and includes much of the standard Linux software. However,
SteamOS is being positioned as a new PC gaming operating system.
The old Linux desktop is there underneath, but the computer boots to
a Steam interface designed for living rooms.

In 2015, you’ll be able to buy PCs that come with SteamOS preinstalled,
 known as Steam Machines. Valve will support you installing SteamOS
on any PC you like — it’s just not anywhere near complete yet.




eComStation

OS/2 was an operating system originally created by Microsoft and IBM.
IBM continued development after Microsoft left it and OS/2 competed
with MS-DOS and the original versions of Windows. Microsoft eventually
won, but there are still old ATMs, PCs, and other systems using OS/2.
IBM once marketed this operating system as OS/2 Warp, so you may
 know it by that name.

IBM no longer develops OS/2, but a company named Serenity Systems
 has the rights to continue distributing it. They call their operating system
 eComStation. It’s based on IBM’s OS/2 and adds additional applications,
drivers, and other enhancements.
This is the only paid operating system on this list aside from Mac OS X.
 You can still download a free demo CD to check it out.





Fedora

Fedora  is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by
the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat.
 Fedora contains software distributed under a free and open-source
license and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies.




Debian

Debian  is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of
free software, most of which is under the GNU General Public License,
and packaged by a group of individuals called the Debian Project.
Three main branches are offered: Stable, Testing, and Unstable.

The Debian Stable Linux distribution is one of the most popular for
 personal computers and network servers, and has been used as a base
 for several other distributions. The Debian Testing and Unstable branches
 are rolling release and eventually become the Stable distribution after
development and testing. Packages are first uploaded to Unstable, from
which they migrate to Testing. When Testing is mature enough it becomes Stable.

Debian was first announced in 1993 by Ian Murdock, Debian 0.01 was
released in August 1993, and the first stable release was made in 1996.
 The development is carried out over the Internet by a team of volunteers
guided by the Debian Project Leader and three foundational documents:
 the Debian Social Contract, the Debian Constitution, and the Debian
Free Software Guidelines. New distributions are updated continually,
 and the next candidate is released after a time-based freeze.




CentOS

CentOS (abbreviated from Community Enterprise Operating System)
 is a Linux distribution that attempts to provide a free, enterprise-class,
community-supported computing platform which aims to be functionally
 compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).















References:

          operating-systems-and-what-they-could-mean-for-the-future/
          systems-you-can-install/



4 (na) komento:

  1. Hi Mam Shena! Who found to use Microsoft Windows Operating System in the Philippines instead of other Operating Systems?

    TumugonBurahin
  2. I can't really say who are the first persons to use the Windows operating system here in the Philippines but i think the reason why it was the widely used OS here is because it was the first OS to be introduced to common Filipino people, unlike the other OS's like Linux which most people are not familiar of.

    TumugonBurahin
  3. Maam Shena :) What do you think is the best operating system to use aside from Microsoft Windows Operating System?

    TumugonBurahin
  4. In my opinion, there's no such thing as "best", because any OS can be considered the best, that's why there are people who are using multiple operating systems :)

    TumugonBurahin