I make the specification of non-linux because otherwise this would just become a thread full of obscure distros that do the same thing as a million other distros.

Some lesser known OSs:

  • AROS - based on Amiga OS, has some derivatives like IcarOS and MorphOS
  • Haiku - based on BeOS
  • Redox - Unix-like, made in Rust (might technically count as linux?)
  • Serenity - Unix-like, very late 90s look and feel
  • Kolibri - Tiny OS, the image is ~44MB. It also has a smaller version that fits in a single floppy.
  • PhantomOS - When 3 Russians decide to turn everything about a typical OS upside down.
  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Something with a microkernel.

    Or ideally, something like Android was supposed to be, with exclusively non-native executables. “Java but good.” So I guess some .NET atrocity, or an obscure SPIR-V project.