Windows macOS or Linux if you use a desktop or laptop computer you're
probably using one of these three operating systems but did you know that
they don't have the market completely cornered there are in fact alternatives
you can use on your pc right now react
os is a good place to start if you're a Windows user and don't want to dive into
something completely unfamiliar it started all the way back in 1996 and was
intended to be a clone of Windows 95 with react referring to how the project
was meant to be a reaction to microsoft's market dominance
react os looks and feels a lot like Windows and has much of the same
functionality many Windows applications run on it without needing extra layers
of emulation hold on a minute if it's so much like Windows wouldn't microsoft try
and shut it down due to copyright infringement well the folks behind react
os avoided running afoul of the law using a technique called clean room
reverse engineering basically they're taking the code apart looking at it and
then writing their own code which is based on it but not the same
one unintended side effect of this approach is that reactos exists in a
perpetual alpha state with features several generations behind the current
version of Windows along with very shaky
hardware support but it's free so if you only needed it for some basic tasks and
you have a deathly allergy to Linux it might be worth checking out
or maybe not i think microsoft hasn't gone
after it because they just don't see it as a serious threat up next let's talk
about haiku free and open source it's not a japanese
poem based on bos bos was an operating system initially
designed for power pc cpus the same ones apple used before 2005. the idea was to
have a media editing optimized os intended to run on the mac one small
problem though apple decided not to buy bos parent company so instead the
project was modified to work on Intel and AMD x86 processors instead by this
point though they had a much bigger problem Windows had already dominated
the x86 base bos was ultimately bought
by the same people who brought me the palm pilot who
also did not do much with it so haiku was born yay an open source
re-implementation of bos that's still being updated to this day
haiku is currently in beta and might not be a bad option if you're looking to
accomplish simpler tasks with it there are a number of apps written
specifically for it you can download from a dedicated package manager similar
to desktop distributions of Linux despite its circa 2000 retro look it can
render modern web pages properly if you're looking just to browse the web
hardware support is hit or miss but it
runs on even low spec systems so it's quite lightweight just like a real haiku
to wrap up today's episode we've got freebsd based on the berkeley software
distribution that is where they got the bsd from and also the name of my new
hippie rock band the original bsd was based on unix a famous os developed in
the early 70s that gained popularity due to its portability meaning it could be
used on different types of hardware configurations which was uncommon at the
time bsd ended up becoming common in workstations and later freebsd became a
popular open source descendant that's much more than just an alternative
desktop operating system in fact iOS mac
os and the software for the newer versions of the playstation all
incorporate large amount of free bsd's code base there are a couple of other
places you might have seen freebsd or even used it before without knowing it
both freenas a free network storage operating system with zfs support and
pfsense which you can use to transform your commodity computer hardware into
your own network router are based off freebsd and although freebsd has tons of
other applications you can still use it as a desktop operating system and it's a
lot more refined than haiku and react os for whatever that's worth now your nan
isn't going to be installing it anytime soon it doesn't even come with a
graphical interface by default but that doesn't mean that you're completely out
of luck if you're a novice there are freebsd based solutions such as furry
bsd name of your sex tape and ghost bsd that come with their own guis is there
another alternative os that you're interested in let us know in the
comments and we'll see if we can cover in a future episode now if you'll excuse
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