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by d3Xt3r 255 days ago
You should also check out QNX, it used to be an awesome OS, way better than Linux back in the day. They released a 1.44MB demo floppy disk in the late 90s that included a full desktop GUI, HTML4 browser, network stack. It blew everyone away at the time as there was nothing like it (yes, MenuetOS/KolibriOS does more, but they came much later).

The full desktop QNX 6 (Neutrino) is also worth checking out in a VM if you've got the time - I ran it on my 450MHZ Pentium III back in the day, it had excellent multitasking performance that no other OS had at the time.

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QNX was recently on hackernews but I didn't actually look at it but I will give it a go, thanks!

My reasoning for why I like tiny core linux if I am honest is that it doesnt have a web browser so if I am studying there I would be studying there...

Except it was so fun to mess with things in the terminal there and opening up my mac for the browser to learn more about tiny core linux and trying to build scripts that it was so fun...

but they can easily be removed and created a new iso for if I want in the future as well but I will definitely look more into QNX. Wish it was on something like copy.sh for easy trying I suppose but if possible I will try to run it in something like quickemu or copy.sh iso way and let you know the easiest way to run it and what are my thoughts if I don't procastinate lol. Have a nice day.

I ran QNX on 16 MHz 386 hardware back in the day. Later, they introduced a window manager that was far less complex and far more powerful than what Windows had. It was a system way ahead of its time.