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mature OS besides Windows Linux and Mac[edit]

Besides these three OS is there any other non experimental OS for PC? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.4.139.75 (talk) 16:25, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OS/2 is the only other one. Btw. Linux is infact part of the huge Unix-branch. I dont think there are any other PC-OS that rose up to maturity. There are multiple branches of unix, like Linux and FreeBSD. --Kharon (talk) 16:50, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

CP/M was a fairly widespread mature operating system through the early 1980s. Many of the conventions used in MS-DOS came from CP/M. --Jayron 32 17:21, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Solaris_(operating_system) began in the 1980s and is still used, although it's an enterprise architecture, not something you'd run on your laptop. OldTimeNESter (talk) 17:49, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It depends on how you define what is "mature". Ruslik_Zero 20:56, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would not lump BSD in with Linux. I think BSD is an excellent solution for anyone wanting a "mature OS besides Windows Linux and Mac". --Guy Macon (talk) 21:06, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And among current BSDs, OpenBSD and FreeBSD are quite mature and feature-rich. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 22:23, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And if you find FreeBSD too difficult, TrueOS is probably the most popular FreeBSD variant targeted at ease of use for a desktop environment, although our article on FreeBSD lists others. Nil Einne (talk) 13:44, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Or you can also use one of the other BSDs.Hofhof (talk) 01:15, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Define "OS" in the context of that question. Are Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint the same OS? What about Ubuntu 4.10 and Ubuntu 16.10? What about the same version, but compiled with slightly different options?

Of course the OP meant "how many OS families", but depending on what cutoff you take for "family" I suspect you could answer the question in multiple ways. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 15:09, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

and there's AmigaOS 31 years old latest release December 2016. Runs on different hardware but so does macOSDja1979 (talk) 17:13, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]