Top Five Little-Known Operating Systems

Operating System is considered as the backbone of a computer since it is impossible to communicate with a computer and run different utility programs without an operating system. Most of you might be just aware of a few operating systems such as the WINDOWS. But there are many other operating systems too which are known to  very few people. Listed below are top five little-known operating systems.

1.       Slax

Belonging to the Linux OS, Slax was developed by Tomas Matejicek. This modern yet little-known operating system is referred as “Pocket Operating System.” Users can select the packages in a website and can build a custom Slax ISO image. One of the most important features of Slax is that additional software can be installed and removed from the system via Slackware packages and Slax modules. The developer hasn’t launched any new version of Slax since 2009 when Slax 6.1.2 was released.

 2. SkyOS

This “prototype commercial, proprietary, graphical desktop operating system,” created for the x86 computer architecture, was developed by Robert Szeleney and some volunteers after exhaustless effort of almost a decade. SkyOS has great semblance with Windows OS, however it is lacking some of the features present in Windows OS. After releasing several versions, the developer has now halted any further development since the year 2009 and no plans to recommence its development have been announced so far.

 3. AtheOS

AtheOS is third among the top five little-known operating systems. Written for the x86-based computers, this open source operating system was created by a Norwegian programmer, Kurt Skauen, after constant struggle of six years (1994-2000) and finally released in March 2000. AtheOS is capable of multitasking and can operate on many processors including AMD and Intel.

 4. NeXTSTEP

NeXTSTEP is a object-oriented operating system developed by NeXT Computer. It belongs to Unix-like OS family and is famous for Objective-C language and object-oriented app layer. Initially it was able to run only with the proprietary workstation computers of its parent company only, but advanced versions of this multitasking operating system can also run on Intel x86, Sun SPARC, and HP PA-RISC-based systems. Its initial version NeXTSTEP 1.0, was released in the year 1989 while last one NeXTSTEP 3.3 released in 1995.

5. AmigaOS

A product of Amiga personal computer, AmigaOS, was developed first by Commodore International, and originally introduced in the year 1985 along with the Amiga 1000. Old versions of the close source operating system only run on the Motorola 68k series of 16-bit and 32-bit micro-processors, while the latest AmigaOS 4 runs only on PowerPC micro-processors. It is last among the top five little-known operating systems.

Top Five Little-Known Operating Systems