A Sneak Preview For Free Operating Systems

The feature will walk you through the various free operating systems that are really garnering the user base and are famous with tech geeks and back end developers. The operating systems discussed here can somehow be tagged as competitors for proprietary offerings including Microsoft Windows, which is supposedly loosing on its market share at the cost of other available options.

Usually, free operating systems synonym Linux but this is not the case always. There are few free operating systems which are not based on Linux.

Open Solaris
It is an open source operating system based on Sun Micro systems' Solaris. It offers unique features designed to help you build and deploy high-performance application services like the Image Packaging System (IPS), the ZFS and featuring integrated virtualization options.