GNUstep

I just tried this, just for kicks.
I have one thing to say....
LOADS OF POTENTIAL,
Its fast, stable, easy to use, this is just great. Its not fully featured, and it has a little of an outdated interface, but it has loads of potential, IMO.
I might learn C++ just to help these guys out.
It is extremely similar to OS X under the hood, and applications are .app, which is just cool.
Link.
It is a Live CD, btw.
Its slow to download, but neat to have fun with.
Its based around NeXTStep, same as OS X.

 

That looks like it's straight out of the 90s
And it's nothing like OS X lmao

This is the future: http://polishlinux.org/reviews/kde-4-rev-811151/6b8caf780ae124ce244b90352cfcf14d.jpg
Just so ya know

A couple more WM's that look like they belong in the 90s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WindowMaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icewm

 

Ya, but its the fastest Os I've ever seen, and that was a VM with 256MB RAM.
You haven't seen this as well.
Link.

 

Nope, never heard of that one. Looks like it's dead though, there's not been a release for almost a year.

 

It seems thats common,
looks like theres a release every year or so.

 

Hmm, that's pretty unusual among open source projects.

 

Same with GNU Mach.
Well, Ubuntu releases twice a year..

 

Thanks Thomas, I rather like to check out new (to me) Unix/Linux variants and see what's going on out there....I'll check it out

 

Its got the linux kernel, but otherwise, its NeXTStep.
Its a helluva lot different.

 

Who actually uses Mach/Hurd though? I bet rms wish we all did though

Ubuntu's like that because it's run by a company, I think. Shuttleworth's trying to make the average user feel more at home by having a commercial style release schedule, even going as far as to make only one long term (aka usable in corporate environments) release every 2 years. I really don't like that setup though, because then you have to upgrade en masse when the new version comes out, and that tends to break a lot of things. So I end up doing a clean install every six months, which is very annoying. That's one of the things that draws me to Gentoo - it's completely versionless once it's installed.

 

Ever single Mac user you've ever met...

 

Actually, Mac OS X uses XNU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

Besides, they don't use it out of choice. They use because the Great Leader decided to use it in His operating system.

 

Ya, based on mach.