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Ask HN: Most production-ready obscure free OS outside embedded?
What is the most production-ready (in some meaningful sense other than OS research) FOSS operating system for desktops or servers that isn't a Linux distro or a DragonFly/Free/Net/OpenBSD or Solaris fork? FreeDOS is a candidate.
- johndoe0815 4y agoHaiku has made great progress, Plan 9 is still active in some forks (e.g. 9front). Helenos (http://www.helenos.org http://www.helenos.org) might also be worth a look, especially since it's a modern microkernel-based system.
- controversial97 4y agoMinix, if you want to compile text-mode programs as if you were batch processing the month-end invoices on a minicomputer in the year 1983. OpenVMS, if you want to resurrect some actual software that was used to do scientific calculations on a VAX in the year 1983.
- sargstuff 4y agoc64 / 6502 hardware[1] seems to get 'new' os & updates, although lot of diy hardware [2][3]. Tensorflow light even has a C64 port![4] Although, might want to use it on the fpga hardware and not the original c64 hardware.[5] Wikipedia has quite an electic collection of free software os systems[6] and microkernel based os's[7] Although, using a bootloader / webedge[0] combination does allow for running any of the [6] and [7] os'es. [0] webedge : http://github.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge http://github.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge ( http://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS http://medium.com/@raphael.outhier/joys-of-porting-a-kernel-to-webassembly-5f0124e71080 ) [1] : http://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Operating_System#picoOS http://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Operating_System#picoOS [2] : http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/build-a-commodore-64-16-01-2023/ http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/build-a-commodore-64-16-01-2023... [3] : http://www.hackster.io/news/building-a-brand-new-c64-96e803e82e7c http://www.hackster.io/news/building-a-brand-new-c64-96e803e... [4] tensor flow light : https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/tensorflow-lite-on-a-commodore-64/ https://hackaday.com/2022/07/06/tensorflow-lite-on-a-commodo... [5] c64 fpga : https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/C64_MiSTer https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/C64_MiSTer [6] : free os systems : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_software_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_software_operati... [7] : micro-kernel based : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Microkernel-based_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Microkernel-based_ope...