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Windows macOS or Linux if you use a desktop or laptop computer you're

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probably using one of these three operating systems but did you know that

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they don't have the market completely cornered there are in fact alternatives

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you can use on your pc right now react

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os is a good place to start if you're a Windows user and don't want to dive into

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something completely unfamiliar it started all the way back in 1996 and was

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intended to be a clone of Windows 95 with react referring to how the project

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was meant to be a reaction to microsoft's market dominance

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react os looks and feels a lot like Windows and has much of the same

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functionality many Windows applications run on it without needing extra layers

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of emulation hold on a minute if it's so much like Windows wouldn't microsoft try

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and shut it down due to copyright infringement well the folks behind react

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os avoided running afoul of the law using a technique called clean room

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reverse engineering basically they're taking the code apart looking at it and

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then writing their own code which is based on it but not the same

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one unintended side effect of this approach is that reactos exists in a

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perpetual alpha state with features several generations behind the current

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version of Windows along with very shaky

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hardware support but it's free so if you only needed it for some basic tasks and

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you have a deathly allergy to Linux it might be worth checking out

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or maybe not i think microsoft hasn't gone

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after it because they just don't see it as a serious threat up next let's talk

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about haiku free and open source it's not a japanese

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poem based on bos bos was an operating system initially

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designed for power pc cpus the same ones apple used before 2005. the idea was to

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have a media editing optimized os intended to run on the mac one small

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problem though apple decided not to buy bos parent company so instead the

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project was modified to work on Intel and AMD x86 processors instead by this

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point though they had a much bigger problem Windows had already dominated

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the x86 base bos was ultimately bought

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by the same people who brought me the palm pilot who

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also did not do much with it so haiku was born yay an open source

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re-implementation of bos that's still being updated to this day

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haiku is currently in beta and might not be a bad option if you're looking to

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accomplish simpler tasks with it there are a number of apps written

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specifically for it you can download from a dedicated package manager similar

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to desktop distributions of Linux despite its circa 2000 retro look it can

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render modern web pages properly if you're looking just to browse the web

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hardware support is hit or miss but it

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runs on even low spec systems so it's quite lightweight just like a real haiku

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to wrap up today's episode we've got freebsd based on the berkeley software

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distribution that is where they got the bsd from and also the name of my new

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hippie rock band the original bsd was based on unix a famous os developed in

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the early 70s that gained popularity due to its portability meaning it could be

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used on different types of hardware configurations which was uncommon at the

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time bsd ended up becoming common in workstations and later freebsd became a

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popular open source descendant that's much more than just an alternative

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desktop operating system in fact iOS mac

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os and the software for the newer versions of the playstation all

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incorporate large amount of free bsd's code base there are a couple of other

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places you might have seen freebsd or even used it before without knowing it

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both freenas a free network storage operating system with zfs support and

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pfsense which you can use to transform your commodity computer hardware into

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your own network router are based off freebsd and although freebsd has tons of

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other applications you can still use it as a desktop operating system and it's a

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lot more refined than haiku and react os for whatever that's worth now your nan

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isn't going to be installing it anytime soon it doesn't even come with a

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graphical interface by default but that doesn't mean that you're completely out

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of luck if you're a novice there are freebsd based solutions such as furry

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bsd name of your sex tape and ghost bsd that come with their own guis is there

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another alternative os that you're interested in let us know in the

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comments and we'll see if we can cover in a future episode now if you'll excuse

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