5 Most successful Open source Operating Sytems | List of Cloud based Operating Systems

As we already know, Microsoft has ended its support for Windows XP, that means no more updates are going to be launched from their side now. In order to move forward with their new operating systems Windows 8 and 8.1, they finally ended the support for Windows XP, one of the most successful operating systems ever, on April 8, 2014. Technically computers will not stop working but now, there will be no more patches and drivers for XP. It is quite known fact that most of the households in India and other parts of the World still using unregistered or cracked versions, but from now onwards, it will not be possible even to update the Windows XP drivers etc. For more check Windows XP Tricks and Facts

So, what next ? Today, we are giving you a list of open source or free-to-use operating system available in market. 

Here is a list of Freely available operating Systems :  

• OpenIndiana : It was developed by Sun MicroSystems, which is solaris based and open source in nature. In April 2009, US business software giant Oracle bought struggling Sun Microsystems and its Java programming language for $7.4 billion, which forced OpenSolaris Project to end. After this, developers working on OpenSolaris splits from Oracle and started developing, what we known as Openindiana, which was based on Unix and Linux like that of OpenSolaris. Till now, many changes got induced into OpenIndiana, from its file system to applications and packages. OpenIndiana is very good option, if you want to give Linux a try. It is available in 32-bit and 64-bit. It needs ~1GB RAM. It best works on Servers and Desktops. It is available on http://www.openindiana.org. 

 

• ReactOS : The ReactOS more or less will give you a feel of Windows operating system.  Likewise Windows XP, 7, Server 2012, it is also based on Windows NT architecture. It is an open source, freely available OS. Almost all the Windows XP applications are accessible through ReactOS. This is the best alternative of Windows to date. It looks like Windows but not based on Linux. The currently available version of ReactOS in market is 0.3.16, which is still in beta phase, sized about 75.5MB only, which is far less than Windows size. It can be used through Live CD version and Virtual Box. Download ReactOS : http://www.reactos.com
• Google Chromium OS : It is an advanced operating system of Google, designed especially for Google Notebooks, sometimes also known as Chromebooks. It is Web-based and very light. It works on customized version of browser Google Chrome. Applications can be accessed from Google Suite. The OS is backed by Google but originally it was developed by freelancer developers. It can be downloaded from Hexxeh's website : http://www.chromeos.hexxeh.net. Here, Vanilla version of OS is available. Due to its unique features, it is considered as a futuristic OS. When Google started talking about possibilities of Web-based OS, everybody thought it is near to impossible task, but as per today's scenario, even Microsoft is working on their web-based OS. Official Website : http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os

• Haiku Project : Haiku is another open source OS developed especially for personal computing. Its uniqueness is its interface and its capability of running every task. It is quite user-friendly and easy-to-use. It was developed initially in 1991 with name BOS. The next version launched back in 2001, after that it was ceased. It was re-launched by Haiku community and designed to support multi-core processor. It is free of cost and its ISO can be downloaded to burn into CD. You can install it as  a virtual machine image. It size is about 250MB but still light in weight as compared to other Linux distributions and windows versions. Official website is http://haiku-os.org

• FreeBSD : The biggest advantage that we have in Linux is its security system. It is virus-proof as well as hacking proof OS, but it cannot run .EXE files directly. Its interface is similar to that of XP but windows apps cannot be installed on it. It requires a special software WINE in order to run .EXE files. Official Website : http://freebsd.org Here, we don't have MS office and Outlook, but alternatively, Libra office and Open office is their to serve the task, which is even better than MS office. The best distribution of Linux is http://linuxmint.com. 

Cloud Based Operating Systems

Cloud OS is one more concept evolving these days. If you want to keep your PC space empty for personal use, you can give it a try. Cloud Based Internet Computing uses web space in order to save your data and software. These OS are even accessible to mobiles and tablets. 

 List of Famous Cloud Based Operating Systems

• ZeroPC : http://zeropc.com gives you a space of 1GBfor free and it remains connected to user cloud services like that of Dropbox, google drive, sky drive, sugar sink, 4shared etc. ZeroPC can even be installed in iPhone, Android, iPad. We have photo management tool for photo freaks which have integrated images and video based social networking website in it.
• JoliCloud : http://drive.jolicloud.com Joli Cloud Services launched joli OS, which can be installed after downloading from their website. It has 15000+ web apps on it, which can be accessed through any system. It also provide facility to integrate dropbox and google drive accounts in it. It also supports other number of social networking sites. 
• Glide OS : http://desktop.glidesociety.com is best used for group projects. it gives you 30GB of storage in free. where 6 user accounts can be formed. It gives options like calender, email, notes, text editor, presentation maker as well as a sinking software for sinking it with mac, windows, linux at the same time. 
• Cloudo : http://cloudo.com Its user interface is like that of mac. This browser based OS gives you option slike user mail, calender, audio player, RSS reader, contact manager, word processor, notepad, command line interpreter, finder etc. It also supports mobile OS enables you to access files through mobile or tablet. 
• SilveOS : http://silveos.com The OS with its interface like windows, based on silverlight technology, which can be run on any browser. It includes various built in apps like music, notes, word processor, solitaire game etc.