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14th March 2011, 14:02 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| 10 Best Alternative Operating Systems Right now, someone, somewhere is developing the killer operating system feature of the future - a feature that will change computing and make us wonder how we lived without it. However, the person responsible probably isn't grafting away in the labs of Microsoft, Apple or Red Hat - he or she is more likely to be working in a bedroom or loft. Big companies can grow reticent to change, slow to move and adopt new technologies. Features must be escalated through approval bodies, management and bean-counters. Hobbyist projects don't have those commercial pressures and can experiment freely. It might seem audacious to claim that the next Windows is cooking in some part-time coder's house, but it's nothing new. Microsoft's OS empire started with the purchase of QDOS, which stood for 'Quick and Dirty Operating System'. Apple didn't create Mac OS X out of thin air, but took an open source kernel and some BSD code (grounded in academia) to get the foundations of its operating system working. The most successful projects often begin life in ways we'd never expect, and it can take a while for their potential to be fully realised. http://www.techradar.com/news/softwa...#ixzz1GaB2U01t
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