On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. < jeffrey.parke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is really cool. Never heard of some of them. > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Alexander von Gluck < > kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> >> http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/10-best-alternative-operating-systems-934484 >> >> More publicity always a good thing :) >> >> Thanks! >> -- Alex v. >> >> > > > -- > "Breath Deeply and Dream" > Unfortunately, the majority of the systems in that article are essentially dead. They made it to a state where they boot on some hardware and run some applications and then just gave up. They haven't been updated in years, and as new hardware comes out they become less and less usable, try finding a computer that boots ReactOS. And they are so obscure that people seems to forget that they are stagnant because of the excitement of the discovery. Haiku is really the only OS that keeps going, its one of the most impressive parts of Haiku, the OS dev world is tough, yet we are still here, still improving. If we keep it up we could, Haiku could become ... well... exactly what we all hope it will be. We have that potential.