Alright guys, it's obscure OS time because GNU/Linux, BSD, Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android are too mainstream for dirty hipsters like myself. I'll list some of the less talked about systems that I know of along with download links if I can fine them. Feel free to contribute.
>IRIX >winworldpc.com/product/irix/3x UNIX-like OS made by SGI in the 90s for extremely high end workstations. Only runs on special hardware so good luck trying to get some early version to work in QEMU. If you just like the looks you can use MaXX Interactive on AMD64 Fedora, which is pic related.
>FreeVMS >freevms.net/ Looks like it might be worth looking at for some.
>OS/2 Warp 4 >winworldpc.com/product/os-2-warp-4/os-2-warp-40 >arcanoae.com/ Developed by IBM and Microsoft in the 90s and never really took off like Windows did but is still supported through reverse engineering. Can run 16 and 32 bit Windows programs using built in virtual machines. Updated version costs money, old version doesn't.
these aren't obscure enough how about opengenera or something
Liam Gutierrez
Link?
Christopher Taylor
Not especially obscure, but it's worth adding to the list: amigaos.net/
Austin White
Feel free to post your fursonas too. Here's mine-
Grayson Parker
(You)
Robert Bennett
Very nice. I also forgot a good one.
>MorphOS >morphos-team.net/ A clone of Amiga OS that can also run on PowerPC Macs and other RISC machines.
Kill yourself, faggot.
Colton Morgan
What's the point of even using an OS like these? Is it just for learning purposes or do you really enjoy having nothing work on them because they have so little usage that nobody bothers making anything that works on them?
Lincoln Wright
Thanks for adding to the list! Here's a furry for your trouble. Brofist!
Caleb Stewart
For fun, of course.
>he thinks he's making me look bad You're the one with furry pics on your hard disks, not me.
Logan Miller
But what fun is there to them when most of them have no support or are outdated by decades? What do you do on them?
Daniel Hall
>Fedora with MaXX There have to be some real niggas left on Sup Forums
Robert Jones
>MINIX >Obscure It's literally embedded in every modern Intel cpu
Kayden Garcia
All of these are normal and certainly not obscure. >not even oberon is on the list wewlad owo
Lincoln Wilson
My O2 is broken and I don't want to spend money on a machine that's too slow to shitpost with. Nice machine though.
>>not even oberon is on the list It's in the OP, you retarded furfag.
Isaac Green
I put Oberon on the list. Peace and love, bro.
Ryan Cruz
didn't notice :^(
Matthew Sullivan
Look at me. I'm the OP now.
Luis Ward
Minix is one of the most popular OS's in the world!
Joshua Mitchell
>Kill yourself, faggot. >Name: OP hmmmmmm, really makes you think :^|
Either waqy, face the fact that there are degenerates on this board in many forms. be it trannies, traps, faggots, or fur-fags, there is no getting rid of these fuckers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_(operating_system) The OS for the Xerox Star, pic related. HP-UX isn't obscure either. I'm sure OP just meant operating systems that everyday people don't hear of too often or neat ones.
Joshua Smith
If you're going to post fur shit makes sure it's aesthetic.
Zachary Williams
Cool hate, bro. I know what it's like to want to be edgy sometimes, my man. Here's my fursona -- Intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.
Carter Collins
>Plan9 >Inferno
Everything Unix was supposed to be, doesn't get as much recognition as it should.
>harvey OS Continuation of Plan9
>Mezzano LISP OS
>Interim OS a minimal operating system featuring a language oriented kernel.
Urbit OS
>A personal server is a virtual computer which stores your data, runs your apps, and manages your connected devices. >Urbit is a secure peer-to-peer network of personal servers, built on a clean-slate system software stack.
>distributed operating system >Resources as files: all resources are represented as files within a hierarchical file system >Namespaces: a program's view of the network is a single, coherent namespace that appears as a hierarchical file system but may represent physically separated (locally or remotely) resources >Standard communication protocol: a standard protocol, called Styx, is used to access all resources, both local and remote It's UNIX turned up to 11
Andrew Price
Multics might be worth checking out as well.
It's the operating system the predated Unix; Multics was felt to be too big and complex, so Unix was a stripped down imitation of it.
One multics feature that I find interesting is this; because all of the binaries stored in a "project" use the same namespace, and because linking is done as needed at run time, you can compile a program that references unknown external functions, it will pause if it tries to call one of them. , allowing you to write the function, add it to the set of object files in the project, and resume the operation of the initial program.
Carson Ross
Probably
Dominic Sanders
but it's just plan 9 with styx
Jonathan Wilson
Nice.
>HP-UX isn't obscure It is today.
Urbit sounds cool.
I don't think I recommended OS X or iOS anywhere in there.
As someone pointed out in the other thread, it's just the kernel and it's used in the Intel Management Engine firmware as a module. I've worked extensively with projects like ME Cleaner to remove the ME firmware and the kernel isn't even useful outside of providing a scheduler and loading more botnet modules. Now you can just modify the FPT and strip everything except the BUP module and run your Intel systems with a neutered ME and you don't have to have any of that bald fucks botnet code.
You made me do this.
Brandon Nguyen
I wonder what meme operating system amd runs on PSP/cortex-a5
Noah Bailey
Are you actually asking a question or are you just trying to say retardedly narrow-minded shit to get attention from people who know better? They're turing-complete systems with compilers for tons of languages, they'll do whatever the fuck you want them to do if you have the right attitude for it. Most of the shit in OP's list are SysVs with active communities that maintain package repositories for them or operating systems with huge abandonware libraries (or both.) Solaris will handle a good 80% of my usual non-games/media workload, I use my IRIX shit for audio recording/editing because they have I/O out the ass for it.
Jordan Bell
I'm pretty sure the PSP uses ARM TrustZone, so whatever that runs is most likely also running on the PSP.
Tyler Hall
>Solaris will handle a good 80% of my usual non-games/media workload, what is the practical advantage of using it over something else in your particular use case? or do you use it just for fun?
in a broader sense, what advantages do these systems have over something more mainstream and well supported?
Angel Foster
Why eat real food when you can just drink ensure? Why have a chair and bed when a couch will clover all your sleeping and sitting needs?
Lucas Clark
i'm not trying to be cheeky you cunt. i'm genuinely curious.
Daniel Ross
I was asking genuinely. Because as someone who doesn't/can't code, I didn't see any real reason to use an OS like any of these when a larger OS would have more support or do the same things and then some. BSD was about as obscure as I figured you could get without downright gimping yourself for the sake of it unless you really love coding all your own shit.
Because what do these systems do that Linux, BSD, or Windows don't already do and better?
Kevin Wright
Because we're hobbyists on an image board for tech enthusiasts. Are you lost or something?
Austin Garcia
Are you the guy who writes all his gopher phlogs on an old Sun box?
Connor Flores
okay, let me spell this out for you, you twat.
i am asking him what benefit he derives from using a less than common operating system. i am not trying to imply he is wrong in doing so, in fact, quite the contrary--i am curious as to his reasoning for using it. i am wondering what his system does better contrast to other systems for his use case, or if he uses it purely from a hobbyist perspective. i am not trying to imply he is wrong in his choice at all, i just want to learn.
why would you make a thread about obscure operating systems if you're going to be hostile to people asking questions about them?
Hudson Rodriguez
>why would you make a thread about obscure operating systems if you're going to be hostile to people asking questions about them? Why are you being so dense? We use these alternative operating systems for fun. Variety is the spice of life, nigger faggot.
Camden Rodriguez
Coherent is a really interesting Unix-clone. It was started in 1980, was compatible with unix v7 and ran on PC hardware
Is OpenIndiana Obsure enough? ZFS makes it awesome
Jack Smith
...
Ryder Morales
>being this assblasted when people are curious about your hobby and ask questions about it in an attempt to learn more
Great way to start a thread and get people into the hobby. Act like a complete cunt; that'll draw people in.
Bentley Mitchell
For a home user? Not really any, it does the same shit as anything else in practical terms, it comes down to less rational preferences like interface, idiosyncrasies, development tools or just an appreciation for the context of it all. Trying something "new" makes mundane shit more exciting, it can make the whole experience better even if in the end it's just the same old shit. If you don't see a reason, then there is no reason. It is less compatible, there's less shit out there built and ready to go for it, but there's still nothing stopping you from working with it. You can find most of what you need on a lot of these platforms, do what you want and enjoy it. I don't know about OP or anyone else here, but for me it's definitely the last point on that last in the previous paragraph that draws me to use what I use. It's more fun to develop shitty toy software to squeeze a little bit of use out of a $25,000 SGI Octane that is architecturally closer to a supercomputer than a PC than it is to waste cycles on my shitty laptop from Costco. No, but that sounds kind of fun in an autistic way.
Cooper Morris
How do people benefit from using iOS over android? That's how dumb the question you're asking is.
Elijah Jenkins
The history under the Development section of the Wikipedia page is an interesting read.
GNU is not and was never supposed to be a complete UNIX clone.
I've tried this and I didn't like it.
I think you're the one that's a little booty bothered here.
Carter Hall
>We use these alternative operating systems for fun. huh, remember how i fucking explicitly asked/stated
>or do you use it just for fun?
and
>or if he uses it purely from a hobbyist perspective
i have no problem with that. i was just wondering if, in his particular case, there was any deeper reasoning, and if in a broader sense, some of these systems had particular advantages that would warrant their use over more mainstream OSes. i'm not faulting anybody for using them to trying to imply they shouldn't.
you all seem to be interpreting my original post as if i was saying "lol y not just use windows?", or "why use this old shit in the first place lol?", but that's not what i was attempting to communicate at all. i don't know if you're confusing me with some of the earlier posters or what. for fuck's sake, i don't know how many times i have to repeat myself.
Zachary Mitchell
Thanks for a real response. Sorry if it came off like asking questions was being a dick, but as someone who just uses computers to visit Sup Forums and shit this kinda stuff made me curious. At least you didn't pull an OP and shit on people with an interest in it.
Thomas Butler
Haiku please, they've ported Qt and the KDE framework, it's usable and they are going to 1.0 soon.
Furfags
Easton Wilson
Haiku will never be complete.
Lucas Jackson
Danny is a slut
Julian Hill
See >"For fun, of course"
Not my fault that you can't read. Please get a handle on your tism or leave my thread.
I think that Haiku OS would be great on something like a Raspberry Pi where you would use it as a cheap desktop PC. Haiku OS out of the box is easier to install and more resource efficient than even something like Xubuntu. From the beginning it was supposed to be a desktop OS that's easy for the average user, and they've succeed in making something that does this. People just need to port more programs or the devs need to work on modernizing the default ones.
Jack Clark
>i'm not faulting anybody for using them to* trying to imply they shouldn't. or*
Joseph Fisher
The Pi does have RISC OS Open, but it really shows it's age.
Also, there's Icaros.
Cooper Phillips
yet again, you seem to think i'm a completely different poster.
you linked to a post much earlier in the thread, replying to somebody completely different. i asked somebody different from you a question. why would you link your own answer to somebody else earlier in the thread?
this was my first post.
Cooper Scott
I believe there are unofficial ARM builds but I completely agree with ya. Haiku has a severe lack of programs but thankfully that's being solved with Qt apps (albeit not in the best way). Also there's a severe lack of drivers: my netbook's screen resolution doesn't get detected properly (1024x600) and it can't work with the integrated wireless on my notebook or my USB wireless antenna.
Ian Morgan
>you seem to think i'm a completely different poster I think that you're an autist that didn't read the thread and then got buttangry when someone called out your inane posts as being the retarded garbage that they are. Is this your first day here? It sure seems like it.
>Also there's a severe lack of drivers That's odd. Did you try the nightly builds? I use those and all of my wireless hardware works.
Ayden Rogers
Here's some from the list of operating systems I keep
it's astounding to me that you're quintupling down on your braindead retardation. the furfags were doing this board a favor by shitposting your thread to death
Jordan Sanders
Those problems were from a nightly a month ago. I don't follow the haiku-dev mailing list. Btw, generic 2013 netbook and generic 2010/11? notebook.
Elijah Richardson
they're all furries lmao pls i want to die but i'm too afraid to kill myself
Matthew Lopez
Nice list. There's a couple in there that I haven't heard of before.
You mad or something?
Grayson Gutierrez
Maybe 3 of those are obscure, maybe.
Also MacOS isn't partially based on NeXTSTEP, it's fundamentally based on it. Bluebox doesn't exist anymore, faggot. Modern mac is all Yellowbox shit.
Caleb Scott
>the furfags were doing this board a favor by shitposting your thread to death is that a request? I can kill this thread is one post if i want to.
Austin Perez
>muh fruity toys
Yiff yourself.
Wyatt Gonzalez
It's too easy to get defensive and condescending when talking about this shit. Thanks for not being a dick, too.
I think all in all the biggest "practical" benefit you can get out of trying out old or obscure technologies is that it really motivates you to learn about things you wouldn't previously care about. It's easier to get into programming when you have problems to solve, or familiarize yourself with a Unix environment when you have something that interests or challenges you to play on, or experiment with new use cases when you have something new and exciting that needs a purpose. >being an anti-mactard in an obscure/dead OS discussion Christ, you're a fucking faggot.
Connor Rodriguez
>Yiff yourself. ok so you dont want the thread to die. kk, just checking. Have some aesthetics:
Cameron Mitchell
There's also RTOS for embedded shit like VXworks, LynxOS, Integreity, ThreadX, and uC/OS but I don't really think they're worth mentioning besides maybe NuttX (it's used on the modules for Motorolla Z series and samsung created a fork of it for their wearables called TizenRT)
>>being an anti-mactard in an obscure/dead OS discussion It's not obscure at all.
Ryan Carter
That's not really what I was saying, I'm just calling OP a braindead dipshit.
Brody Rodriguez
>too slow to shitpost with that's doubtful unless you have some shitty R5000PC model and even then you still could, Sup Forums isn't really resource-heavy as long as you have enough memory to handle all of the images
Juan Rodriguez
Say that to my face, you stupid penis.
It struggles with the captcha (unless I use the legacy one) and I think I have like 256MB of RAM in that one. It's incredibly slow for web browsing but not impossible.
Caleb Reed
>1/3rd of the thread is people complaining that OP's list isn't obscure enough, another 1/3rd is OP sperging out at people, and the last 1/3rd is furfags Wew lad, what a thread. Guess it gets a lot of bumps at least.
You can request an account to SSH/Telnet into a bunch of old mainframes/minicomputers and monkey around in 'em. There's a lot of documentation, too.
Brayden Stewart
/3rd of the thread is people complaining that OP's list isn't obscure enough, another 1/3rd is OP sperging out at people, and the last 1/3rd is furfags Well, it's Sup Forums.
I'll be sure to check out the living computers site you linked.
Carson Mitchell
Sweet QNX, literally what Stallman tried to do with GNU.
Zachary Rivera
You could also visit multicians.org Many things that UNIXtards say about multics are plainly false to begin.
Landon Garcia
just disable javascript my dude, Sup Forums works fine without it
Michael Brown
Muh catalog.
Justin Mitchell
let's be real, there's only two or three threads you're actually going to want to post in at any given time and you can easily just look at your phone and find the page number
Does anyone actually use an obscure Operating System as their daily driver? Seems like it might be frustrating or fun.
David White
I'm a lot fatter than that with more facial hair. I also don't have glasses because I eat my carrots.
Hurd is decent. I used Arca OS as my day to day personal OS for about a week. Did the same with Solaris on my desktop. It was ok but I couldn't use them for work.
Jace Long
>daniel YOU'RE THE FUCKING WHAT.CD BABYFUR HAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHHA
Henry Watson
>It was ok but I couldn't use them for work. What was the reason you couldn't use it for work?
Isaac Sanders
That's an apt description of 9front
Liam Hernandez
>WHAT.CD I'm still pretty buttblasted about that.
I need certain CAD programs and internal company software that will only run on Windows.
