Proposal of changing name and structure of this page   I propose to change this page and show in it only reference links to various comparison charts because it fails to show as stated in the title  Quote The table only includes systems that are widely used and currently available Due to the large number and variety of available Linux distributions all of these operating systems are grouped under a single entry in these tables End quote  It could have been called Comparison table of OSes recent than  years but it still presents MacOS and not only Mac OS X that is the current selling version For example Windows and windows are both canceled from the table and only Windows ME is shown And it is correct because both x versions are discontinued from market longer than  years  OS is discontinued and IBM plans to release it Open Source but it is still on the table  Linux OSes are shown apart Their invoice is no longer  necessary  It lacks of OSes still on the market such as AmigaOS which recently started also  split versions AROS and MorphOS and also MorphOS it is currently on the market I wrote AmigaOS invoice in the table and I planned to insert MorphOS later  It lacks of very interesting OSes currently on the market such as RTOS Real Time Operating Systems which major representative is QNX  Also it could have been called Comparison Table of Operating Systems with a million or larger userbase but then FreeBSD and Solaris are far from reaching this record of installed releases   So I propose to create multiple pages of comparison charts and this page pointing with respective links to each of them Historical chart ones OSes actually on the market Linux Only etcetera  But one chart amongst the others must be a very extensive comparison table showing all existing OSes present and past ones to be of reference for all readers and mainly students and scholars  Criticisms and advices are welcome  Insert your Sign and say why if you agree or refuse to change this page      Whoops Sorry I am RaffaeleMegabyte and I failed to log becase I reconnected internet after a brief pause   In my opinion the tables should list OSes that are widely used However use isnt the same as number of installed systems that number just boosts desktop operating systems out of proportion If for example a Solaris system runs an application server used by  users that would really have to count as  users not just one A good measure might be how often an OS or services running on an OS are directly or indirectly used by how many users Or to put it another way the amount of real work done using that OS Of course this cannot really be measured only estimated  Basically Im all for including OSes like QNX and similar systems as right now the embedded operating systems are very underrepresented However if we were to go down that road all the way then wed have to start including eg Symbian OS or Windows CE too and there isnt really much point in comparing eg Symbian OS to Solaris  So if there was to be a split at all Id split it by target system type ie server OSes workstationdesktop OSes embeddedrealtime OSes With that kind of split many systems could be clearly assigned to one of the types instead of having to maintain the same data multiple times Also splitting into multiple tables doesnt necessarily mean splitting into multiple articles For example it would be possible to simply have one section per target system type  In either case Im very much against doing this kind of change in the reorganize first fix later style since a lot of changes tend to stop after the reorganize phase and never get around to actually filling in all the new content Eg Ive seen a fair amount of people who insist that OS xyz has to be in the tables but then cant actually be bothered to add more than a sketchy version of the general information data  Instead I suggest you create the reorganized version as a page in your user namespace and then post a link here for discussion