Talk:Comparison of open-source operating systems

message: Linux is not a name of an operating system. It is a name of a kernel. The proper name of the operating system is GNU/Linux. It needs to be decided whether the article is about operating systems or kernels only.
Why not represent linux by its distributions?.The most popular distros like
Fedora,RHEL,Suse or Debian can be represented in the place of linux.It is
a well known fact that a number of distributions make small changes or additions to the main linux kernel,thus making the kernels of these distributions unique.Linux distributions are different operating systems.
Representing hundred operating systems as one could be inappropriate.--Yes-minister (talk) 14:28, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  OS or kernel: linux 

message: So I noticed that while most of the row/column headings were grey, there were a few row headings that weren't. (Note: They are grey for me, but depending on your CSS stylesheet, they may be different. They are the cells started with a ! rather than a | .) So anyways, I changed it everywhere except for "Important programs", which was the only place where it looked like it might possibly have been on purpose. Personally, I'd rather they were all grey, but was there a reason for this? Armedblowfish 21:19, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it was. i meant that: x86 is a main category and the x86 smp support is a sub, as they are the same architecture. --preceding unsigned comment by Balihb 23:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Maybe there's another way to make this clearer... perhaps a template that makes the cell a lighter grey? (Btw - I hope you don't mind that I indented your comment and credited you/added a date. To sign your comments on talk pages, just use ~~~~ or ~~~ if you don't want a date.) Armedblowfish 00:46, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grey cells for row/column headings 

message: There are far far too many columns in these tables, it makes them almost unreadable. How about losing some of the less popular/well-known OSs, like Menuet, NewOS, Haiku, the last seven columns that have virtually no data. In fact, what about just limiting it to:
*Linux
*FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DFly BSD
*OpenSolaris
*OpenDarwin
*Minix
*FreeDOS
*GNU HURD
*Plan9
*possibly Syllable and Inferno and ReactOS
The others could be linked to in see also section. Let's pick a limited number of OSs carefully, fill the columns properly, and have a useful page, rather than the half-empty unreadable mess we have now, eh? NicM 22:00, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No. It's other articles that compare them. I think that it should be all of the actively developed os-es here. there won't be much more of them.--BaliHB 00:25, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

text: the firs os-es are the popular ones. thats why they are not in alphabetic order.--BaliHB 00:31, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There are too many already, never mind any more. It either needs some to be removed, or the tables to be rotated so the OSs are the rows rather than columns. In that case, at least the columns could be restricted by adding more tables for more features. NicM 00:36, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Look at the way Comparison of operating systems does it, for instance. NicM 00:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'we thinked about this a lot. Dunno what would be the best way. With rotation you can't realy manage newly added thinks, but the os management is easyer. But in this case I think that it'll be more features added, than os... --BaliHB 07:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It isn't a case of which is easier to add, it is which is easier to read... if the OSs are in the rows, we can have a million OSs and it won't matter much: it is also much much easier to split features to make it a sane number of columns, eg, if the hardware/driver table had two many columns, it could be split into two tables "Network drivers" and "Other drivers", or three with "Graphics drivers", etc. I think empty rows also look much better than empty columns. NicM 17:20, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree that this would be better. Do you know of an easy way to rotate the tables? (If not, I recommend the use of  whenever someone gets around to changing a section.) Armedblowfish (talk|contribs) 17:31, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know of an easy way, I was rather hoping somebody else did :-). NicM 18:36, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm feeling my self guilty as I started the page in the wrong way... Maybe a new editing interface could be nice. Or just a script wich makes the tings easyer... --BaliHB 20:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Don't feel bad. It will just take time to change. And the Wikitable format is actually much easier than coding in raw CSS or HTML tables. Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 21:30, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm almost finished with the script, that does the rotating automaticli. It'has some problems now, but almost finished. Here it is. I hope I'll finish it in a few hours.--BaliHB 22:21, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Awesome! Just don't rotate the "Other information and technologies" section, I did that manually (with nice, helpful comments for empty cells.) See this version of the page with both the old table and the new table to compare to make sure there's no mistakes. Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 22:37, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK. Finihs! :))) Crappy solution, but works and was fast :) --BaliHB 23:06, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of entries

message: What to do with ati and nvidia. Make an "official dirvers"? Dunno. It's not realy a looking great. :) --BaliHB 00:27, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW these are only relevant for a subset of the OSes listed. Would it make sense to put this info in a separate table? --JoelSherrill (talk) 19:40, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ati & nvidia 

message: The oldstyle references (as opposed to the new, inline ones) are confusing next to the new inline ones. Perhaps convert to footnote style instead (since they are being used as footnotes anyways), like in Comparison of BSD operating systems? Armedblowfish (talk|contribs) 17:44, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  old-style refs vs. footnotes 

message: e/os info:
Hi! 
Thanks for the mention of eos in the articule, and i
will intent to add the information of eoslx.
CPU/Architecture support
x86/i386/IA-32         
- yes
x86 SMP
- no         
Xen 
- no        
IA-64/AMD64         
- no
AMD64
- no         
PowerPC
- no         
PowerPC SMP         
- no
SPARC32         
- no
SPARC SMP         
- no
Alpha
- no         
MIPS
- no         
ARM 
- yes        
XScale
- no         
M68k
- no         
PA-RISC
- no         
other
- Poket pc under devel
hosted mode
- QEMU is the default mode for run under other systems
Hardware/Driver support
ATA         
- yes
SATA 
- yes        
SCSI 
- yes        
USB 2.0
- no (partitial)         
USB 1.1         
- yes
FireWire
- yes         
PCMCIA/PC card 
- yes        
AGP         
- no
Nvidia official driver IA32         
- no
Nvidia official driver IA64         
- no
Nvidia official driver AMD64         
ATI official driver x86         
- no
ATI official driver x86_64         
- no
sound
- yes         
TV tuner/Video editing/Webcam         
- yes
Networking 
- yes        
NE2000/RTL8029         
- yes
RTL8139
- yes         
Gigabit Ethernet         
- yes
10-gigabit Ethernet         
- yes
Wireless LAN
- partitial         
Bluetooth         
- no
IrDA
- no
Network technologies
        
firewall         
- yes
TCP/IP
- yes         
IPv6 
- yes        
IPX         
- yes
PPP         
- yes
PPPoE
- yes         
DHCP 
- yes        
bridge
- yes         
TUN/TAP 
- yes        
ssh         
- yes
OpenVPN
- no
File system support
FAT16/dosfs, FAT32/vfat         
- yes
NTFS 
- no        
Ext2
- yes         
Ext3 
- no        
XFS 
- no        
ReiserFS         
- no
UFS 
- no        
UFS2
- no         
HFS 
- no        
HFS+
- no         
Minixfs
- yes         
BeFS 
- yes (default in series 028)        
ISO 9660         
- yes
UDF         
- no
NFS 
- yes        
SMBFS
- yes         
RAM disk/tmpfs         
- yes
procfs
- yes         
Virtual memory/swap         
- yes
other special file systems         
- no
RAID
- yes         
quota
- yes         
Resource access control         
- Unix
encryption         
- yes
other special file system features
- no
Important programs
Linux binary compatibility         
- yes
Wine 
- yes (native)        
DOSEMU/DOSBox
- yes         
XOrg 
- yes        
XFree86
- yes         
other gui
- no         
Mozilla Firefox         
- yes
other browser         
- Internet Explorer, Opera and Dillo
OpenOffice.org         
- yes
other office suite         
- Microsoft Office 97
MPlayer         
- no
other media player         
- Xine
Gaim         
- yes
other instant messenger         
- Amsn, Microsoft MSN
Apache         
- yes
other httpd         
- no
QEMU
- yes
other PC emulator         
- native emulation for Darwin, BSD and PowerPc
emulation.
PearPC
- no
Other information and technologies
        
License         
- GNU GPL 2.0
Kernel type         
- Monolithic
Kernel programming language         
- ASM, C, and C++
Kernel Thread support         
- 1:1
OS family:         
- BeOS, Unix
oldest non-EOL version[30]         
- No
Forks
- None
Thanks for all,
Dr. Miguel Chanampa
--BaliHB 09:39, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  E/OS 

message: PA-RISC is listed as a supported architecture for GNU Mach and/or GNU Hurd. Although work exists to run Mach on PA-RISC <http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/mach4-parisc/html/pamach.html>, this is based on Mach4 and not GNU Mach. GNU Hurd for non-i386 machines does not exist.
Does anyone have any contradictory evidence that I should be aware of?
202.6.138.34 13:53, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  GNU Mach and/or GNU Hurd 

message: Contiki is not yet listed. --62.104.88.118 18:04, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: Syllable does support gigabit, check out Syllable website news page for more information.
Please update the article
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thread_title:  [[Syllable]] and Gigabit 

message: VLC supports BSD as well. 70.111.224.252 15:28, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
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thread_title:  VLC 

message: should the tables be changed like this?
=== Networking ===
                           	Networking supported	NE2000/RTL8029	RTL8139	Gigabit Ethernet	10-gigabit Ethernet	Wireless LAN	Bluetooth	IrDA
GNU/Linux                  	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
FreeBSD                    	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
OpenBSD                    	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
NetBSD                     	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
DragonFly BSD              	                    	Unknown       	Unknown	                	                   	            	Unknown  	Unknown
OpenSolaris                	                    	Unknown       	Unknown	                	                   	            	         	
Darwin OpenDarwin          	                    	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
Minix                      	                    	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
FreeDOS                    	                    	              	       	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
NewOS                      	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
Haiku                      	                    	              	       	                	Unknown            	            	         	
KolibriOS                  	                    	              	       	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	         	
MenuetOS                   	                    	              	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	         	
GNU Mach GNU Hurd	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
ReactOS                    	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
L4 Fiasco Pistachio        	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
Plan 9                     	                    	              	       	                	Unknown            	            	Unknown  	Unknown
AROS                       	                    	              	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
Syllable                   	                    	              	       	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
Inferno                    	                    	              	       	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
FreeRTOS                   	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	
eCos                       	                    	Unknown       	Unknown	                	Unknown            	Unknown     	         	Unknown
pico]OS                	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
HelenOS                    	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
E/OS                       	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
Visopsys                   	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
--BaliHB 19:14, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  unknown cell in chart 

message: Networking supported	NE2000/RTL8029	RTL8139	Gigabit Ethernet	10-gigabit Ethernet	Wireless LAN	Bluetooth	IrDA
GNU/Linux                  	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
FreeBSD                    	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
OpenBSD                    	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
NetBSD                     	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
DragonFly BSD              	                    	Unknown       	Unknown	                	                   	            	Unknown  	Unknown
OpenSolaris                	                    	Unknown       	Unknown	                	                   	            	         	
Darwin OpenDarwin          	                    	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
Minix                      	                    	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
FreeDOS                    	                    	              	       	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
NewOS                      	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
Haiku                      	                    	              	       	                	Unknown            	            	         	
KolibriOS                  	                    	              	       	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	         	
MenuetOS                   	                    	              	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	         	
GNU Mach GNU Hurd	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
ReactOS                    	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
L4 Fiasco Pistachio        	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
Plan 9                     	                    	              	       	                	Unknown            	            	Unknown  	Unknown
AROS                       	                    	              	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
Syllable                   	                    	              	       	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
Inferno                    	                    	              	       	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
FreeRTOS                   	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	
eCos                       	                    	Unknown       	Unknown	                	Unknown            	Unknown     	         	Unknown
pico]OS                	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
HelenOS                    	Unknown             	Unknown       	Unknown	Unknown         	Unknown            	Unknown     	Unknown  	Unknown
E/OS                       	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
Visopsys                   	                    	              	       	                	                   	            	         	
--BaliHB 19:14, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Networking 

message: :Comparison of open source operating systems → Comparison of open-source operating systems — like Open-source software — Neustradamus (✉) 18:18, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Discussion moved to Talk:List of free and open source software packages#Requested move. Jafeluv (talk) 16:02, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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message: This OS is included in the list, but it is not notable enough to have a Wikipedia article on it. Does anyone think it is notable enough for this list? - Ahunt (talk) 13:16, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Lacking objections over the past week then I will remove it. - Ahunt (talk) 10:37, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
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message: This section is a real mess; at least for the bits I know about.
Realistically, this is either going to be Full, R/W, R/O or none - but the definition is still confused.
What counts as file system support anyway? Take ZFS for example. Linux doesn't support ZFS, but Linux based OS distributions can using user-space drivers after boot. Most complete OS can run utilities that allow access to any format you like. Does this count as support?
So, I suggest the following definitions:
Full: Built in to the kernel and able to boot from this FS.
R/W: Can mount and read or write after boot without restriction.
R/O: Can mount read-only after boot, but not write.
none: May or may not be accessible using a utility, but can't be mounted and used transparently.
F J Leonhardt 14:00, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  File system "support"`