New open source OS reference site, aimed at newcomers reddit / BSD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- qoulyot · 2021-12-12 21:26 Hey team! This is the modern setting to discover open source operating systems, including BSD. Newcomers can check out The Friendly Flow and quickly find something that suits them using our search and metadata tools. There is some Linux on here too. The BSD coverage looks good — let me know if I’ve missed any! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PunishedRaion · 2021-12-12 21:58 My main criticism is that it looks specifically targeted towards what's popular and you have a number of stubs in there. I personally would recommend that you flesh out and include commercial and historical operating systems and perhaps do more than footnotes for the less popular ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nick_storm · 2021-12-13 14:52 You should add Serenity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CerebralStatic · 2021-12-13 21:14 FYI, your page lists oasis as using systemd, but their github says it uses rc.init. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- qoulyot · 2021-12-13 22:36 Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- deojfj · 2021-12-15 12:14 I would add [Plan 9](http://p9f.org/) and [Inferno](http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/) operating systems, both designed by the UNIX creators to succeed UNIX and improve on it, and with a MIT licence. As a side note, listing every Linux distribution might be adding noise, as many only differ in package or DE choice and would not exactly be different OSes. Also, I find it more interesting to learn about OSes that are somewhat different or with unusual designs, even if they are not completely open-source or popular. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- qoulyot · 2021-12-16 00:09 Yep. Writing for things like Kubuntu (Ubuntu, but with KDE) was quite hard. With Plan 9 now under MIT, perhaps they should both go up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Current_Hearing_6138 · 2022-01-06 21:31 You completely neglected the modern OS/2 rewrites, several of which are free and open source. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- yourhelpfulfriend · 2022-01-15 21:57 One small point about the BSD coverage. You guys talk about "BSD 4.4," but it was always actually written as "4.4 BSD." "BSD" should come _after_ the version number when talking about the old University of California versions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wheel_d · 2022-01-31 01:47 Thanks for your efforts; the site's got promise. You'll want to keep it updated: for instance, Elementary OS is now at version 6.1. Best wishes! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- qoulyot · 2022-01-31 02:05 Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- grahamperrin · 2022-02-14 18:47 https://www.ulosino.com/browse/freebsd For the four buttons to the right, pointing does not reveal a hint of the target, and Control-Click fails to open the required link in a new tab. The page lists only three platforms. There's support for more; https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ relize is a spelling mistake. https://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/ was very recently modernised, this might help you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- qoulyot · 2022-02-14 20:53 The button linking bug is known and a fix is underway ([see alpha here](https://ulosino-git-new-architecture-and-redesign- ulosino.vercel.app/)). We tend to not list all available platforms for general brevity throughout the UI (Alpine, NetBSD, Kali come to mind as other examples). Thanks for checking the site out (and for the advocacy link — helpful).