Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “You Don’t HAVE To Use Windows…”.
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.. Reactos 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..
Reactos 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. ( suspensful tone ) Hold on a minute. If it’s so much like Windows, wouldn’t Microsoft, try to shut it down due to copyright infringement. Well, the folks behind ReactOS 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 unattended side affect of this approach Is that ReactOS exists in 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 BeOS.
BeOS was an operating system originally designed for power. Pcs 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 BeOS’s parent company, so instead the project was modified to work on Intel and AMDX86 processors. Instead.. By this point, though, they had a much bigger problem. Windows had already dominated the X86 space. BeOS was ultimately bought by the same people who brought you the Palm Pilot, who also did not do much with it.. So Haiku was born yay An open source reimplementation of BeOS, 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 it’s 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 light weight, just like a real Haiku. To wrap up today’s episode. We’Ve got FreeBSD based on the Berkeley Software Distribution. That is where the 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 70’s that gained popularity due to it’s portability., And it could be used on different types of hardware configurations which was uncommon at the time..
Bsd ended up becoming common to work stations and later FreeBSD became a popular open source descendant that’s much more than just an alternative desktop operating system.. In fact, iOS macOS and the software for the newer version of the Play Station all incorporate large amount of FreeBSD’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 application, you can still use it as a desktop operating system. And it’s a lot more refined than Haiku and ReactOS for whatever that’s worth.. Now your Nan isn’t going to be installing at 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 FuryBSD name of your sex tape and GhostBSD 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 it in a future episode.. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got an urge to get my HD DVDs and Betamax. Tapes. Brilliant’s mission is to help people achieve their learning goals., So whether you’re, a student, a professional, brushing up on learning, cutting edge topics or just someone that wants to understand the world better., You should check out Brilliant.
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