how many operating systems are there

[Omyn]

Hey everyone just wondering for a class project how many operating systems actually exist, are you up to the challege, if your bored or have some spare time could you please help?

Please dont flame me :]

[shawners]

thiers windows 3.1, windows 95.. windows 98, windows 98se.. Windows 2000, windows xp, home, professional. I think thats about it..=)

[Kyle06]

linux?

I know that is not spelled right but :P

[cpugeniusmv]

there are hundreds of distributions of linux.

http://www.distrowatch.com

and of course all the versions of windows, and DOS.

then there's Unix...the BSDs

[isus]

thiers windows 3.1, windows 95.. windows 98, windows 98se.. Windows 2000, windows xp, home, professional. I think thats about it..=)
please tell me you were just joking...

[Star Guitar]

I can add one to that:

Tron OS

http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/31855.html
http://www.tron.org/index-e.html

[muskrat_love]

Lets not forget windows 1.x I believe it is still available on ebay.

[Vlet]

http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/

and

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/

might be good places to look as well

[muffenme]

:fire

Don't forget Windows 2.x, GEOS, FreeDOS, Windows 3.0, PC-DOS, x-DOS where x is any company that made a DOS such as Tandy-DOS.

:hole

[nasrules]

What about that one method mentioned the other day? ReactOS?

[Lehk]

menuetOS, pure ASM OS with an ASM compiler and a few other apps, fits/boots from a floppy

[tackdaddy]

there is also lindowsOS,tho i would never use it.

[QuickSurfer]

lindowsisjust another varient of linux

[RJ5500]

And let's not forget FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and netBSD.

[PhR34x0r]

u can play that game 4ever until u mention all variants of all OSes, which is impossible. change some code in any linux distro, compile that shit, add your fav apps, optimize everything 2 ur needs, put it into the interweb and viola another variant of an OS.

[wonderboy2005]

this guy had a website detailing his ventures with operating systems... on his PC, using either VMWare or VPC, he had well over 200 OSes. there were about a dozen or so OSes (that were possible to emulate on an x86 machine) that he didnt have installed. but of course, that doesnt include any of the MacOSes, etc.

[ducttapeBigSexy]

Hey, what about Commodore 64 BASIC? That was awesome! (jk, of course)

Seriously, the main operating systems are Windows, Mac OS, and Unix / Linux (w00t!). There are hundreds (if not thousands) of different verisons of all of these, so, unless you feel like counting, I can't really give you an exact number.

However, if you really feel like going nuts, include all OSes for all platforms, such as Palm OS and Windows Moble.

[shawners]

please tell me you were just joking...


didnt you see my smiliy face at the end of the sentence.. =)