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Are you implying that you thought FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Haiku, Illumos (OpenSolaris), etc, were all abandoned?
I think it's actually a fair point, in a way. FreeBSD is certainly alive and well, but the rest? IMHO OpenBSD is not suitable as a general-purpose OS. It's perfect for a narrow range of applications, but I don't regard it as an alternative to Windows or Linux any more than say Cisco-IOS. DragonflyBSD honestly hasn't got much to offer that other systems don't already do better. Haiku, with all due respect, is a toy project. Illumos is basically hoping to save the dead open-source branch of a now-dead OS. So all in all, Mac aside, the only serious and fully-capable alternative to Windows and Linux is FreeBSD.
I think it's actually a fair point, in a way. FreeBSD is certainly alive and well, but the rest? IMHO OpenBSD is not suitable as a general-purpose OS. It's perfect for a narrow range of applications, but I don't regard it as an alternative to Windows or Linux any more than say Cisco-IOS. DragonflyBSD honestly hasn't got much to offer that other systems don't already do better. Haiku, with all due respect, is a toy project. Illumos is basically hoping to save the dead open-source branch of a now-dead OS. So all in all, Mac aside, the only serious and fully-capable alternative to Windows and Linux is FreeBSD.
While I agree that Haiku is not a general-purpose OS yet, it's getting a lot more mature lately. The built-in web browser is now almost modern standards compliant, there's a package manager, you can run Qt applications (although you could already run them for years, but it has seen some improvements lately). So yes, it's getting a lot better. It just needs better drivers, esp. network drivers (good lucking getting WiFi to work on a modern machine!). They're slowly getting there.
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