I wish Nokia N900 / N950 with Maemo or Meego OS. And full opensource, full MPL or MIT licensed.
I truly wish SailfishOS could be that replacement but I've been burnt too many times already.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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Definitely Haiku, BeOS had a lot of neat ideas in it.
ReactOS would be kinda fun
Back to the ol' times of Windows.
That too NT 5.x ! I wish we had stuck with Windows 2000 Professional.
Guix GNU/Hurd of course lol
GEM
Because it's truly outrageous
I'll second GEM. The 520ST was my first computer as well.
It did a lot with a little!
Yes. My first computer was an Atari 520ST. No hard drive, 520k of ram, and and GEM ran on a dedicated chip.
It's a graphical shell over DOS, but still exists.
Maybe minix? Because microkernel.
Honestly, if I had this magic power, I'd pick something like Ubuntu or Fedora. The exact pick doesn't matter, I don't want this to devolve into a holy war, but I want to "The Year of the Linux Desktop" to stop being a tongue in cheek meme. I want Windows and Apple to have to make meaningful changes to maintain their market share.
Haiku, but honestly I'm just happy to see the conversations here
Nobody's mentioned Guix. It's a GNU project, which is like Nix, but has a number of novel features. I'll copy in from my own thread about it:
Based on what Iβve heard so far: GNU Shepard instead of systemd, a package manager that compiles things from source and allows user-defined compiler options, a totally different way of arranging system files, and Guile-Scheme is used for everything; it sounds like thereβs no other kind of configuration anywhere.
It's planned to be Hurd compatible, so I'd argue it counts.
There are a few aspects we need to consider...
For the UI, I would go with beOS, Haiku is cool, but the look is a bit too modern, I love the clean look of beOS's UI
For the best compabillity, after a lot of work, ReactOS, a project aiming to create an open source os that is binary compatible with Windows 2000.
seL4
A formally verified microkernel
Serenity for sure. I love the 90s aesthetic and would like to see it make a comeback. At the very least I'd like to see their Ladybird browser become mainstream - we really need more alternatives to the Chromium family.
That "Unix" os from the og jurassic park movie.
That was actually Unix. Specifically the fsn file manager for IRIX.
There's a Linux clone called fsv.
That's real?! TIL...
I can't decide if that changes my answer or not... lol Seems like a cumbersome way to browse files, but maybe that's because it isn't how I've learned...
I remember running BeOS back in the early 90s so I guess Iβd go with Haiku
TempleOS, because for it to go mainstream, a sizeable chunk of the population would need to go fully insane, and I think that'd be interesting
Maybe more insane would actually cancel out the insanity already existing?
Or do I now sound insane?
Anyway, came for Temple OS as well.
Yup. Ctrl+F'd here.
OpenBSD. Imagine everyone just running a secure OS.
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