More OSes...
So of course there's the MS line.
MS-Dos, Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, CE, PocketOS and the next version in the home line... if it ever shows up.
Linux has tons of flavors, coming from Debian, RedHat, Suse and a lot of other major players as well as relative newcomers, such as Knoppix (VERY cool if you haven't tried it yet - boots from CD-Rom for windows users to get their feet wet).
There's also Mac OS and all it's variants up until 9, then OSX kicks it into the same lines as FreeBSD.
Thers's also different Unix variants. SCO is one of the more notables, as is HPUX. Many others are available.
IBM still has AIX.
Sun makes Solaris, which is fairly Linux-ish now.
PalmOS has a reasonable distribution now.
Then we start getting into the niche players, such as Netware, Netilla, Cisco OS and on down the line.
If you really want to get into the entire list of OS's, phones and cars have their own OS now. Every OS on the market is designed to fill a specific niche in some way, with Windows being the most popular because the niche is the average consumer that doesn't want to know the internal workings but wants it easy to use. Did you want to be any more focused than every OS in a duscussion, or should we continue listing? I'm still missing a lot of OS choices here.
Brian.
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