"No matter how certain its eventual coming, an event whose exact
time and form of arrival are unknown vanishes when we picture the future.
We tend not to believe in the next big war or economic swing; we certainly
don't believe in the next big software revolution."
- David Gelernter

Gates seems like he's into eugentics. Who's not? He seems on the verge of evil
all the time. He creeps me out.
-Tarry

That's how I felt about photoshop. It's easy enough after you know
what buttons do.. but before you get lost. because.. photoshop is as complicated
as whatever you're doing x3
 FoxJF

LET ME. TELL YOU. ABOUT. LINUX
-My friend  jeffory after hearing a good IE joke with Linux in it.

I get no Blue Screens till the end of the month then I get like five...
It's like it has a quota or something.
- Shief

If I want to self harm I will just install Windows
- fatty.piggy

but does linux work on Windows OS?
and is it free?
~Anonymous (If it's yours note me on my personal account and I'll remove it if you like.)

whenever i use windows. im reminded by linux. and how better it runs. And how lesser ass it is
im only annoyed at that some games does not run on linux. thats all that makes me not run linux
full time.
- Movler

Hello and welcome to AltOSFurrs! A group for those of us who (For what ever reason.) don't use Windows or Mac, and it's not just for Linux and BSD users. Furrs with Haiku, EComWorkstation, Plan 9 From Bell Labs, FreeDOS, MINIX, RISC OS, Temple OS, and anything I've forgotten are welcome here! So go on and tell me what you keep in your computer box.

As for what we do... Maybe we can do some kind of "Alternative OS Awareness" day/week if we get enough members?

Icon made by the lovely

If you're a Mac user you may want have been looking for  MacFurs

Founder  FuzzyNightmare

Want some help evading your Windows tax?  Tannytheratty can help.

About us:

This is a group for any and all Furrs out their who use (Or just like.) alternative operating systems.

How to join:

Just watch the group... But adding our icon to your page would be nice:

: iconAltOSFurrs :

(Without the spaces.)

Why we do what we do
Why we don't do what you do

Ingesting fact:

Linux user only have to F5 about 5% of the time to see your new icon... I have no idea why.

Questions you may have:

Do I have to hate Windows/Mac?
Nope, dual booters/supporters are welcome!

I use Linux, but it's a popular distro... Can I still join?
Yep! I use one of the most well known (But unloved) distros.

What OS do you have?
Gentoo.

I want to try some of these OS but I don't want to loss Windows/Mac OS.
That's OK, it's essay to make a live USB or you can just install it to a virtual computer. (I recommend VirtualBox.)

Links:

GNU/Linux:

http://www.linux.org/
http://www.gnu.org/
http://distrowatch.com/
http://www.winehq.org/

BSD:

http://www.bsd.org/
http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.openbsd.org/

Plan 9 from Bell Laboratories:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/
http://glenda.cat-v.org/

Haiku:

https://www.haiku-os.org/

EComWorkstation:

http://www.ecomstation.com/index.phtml

FreeDOS:

http://www.freedos.org/

MINIX:

http://www.minix3.org/

Unix:

http://www.unix.org/

OpenJem:

http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=opengem

RISC OS:

https://www.riscosopen.org/content/

Temple OS:

http://www.templeos.org/

AcessOS:

http://www.mutabah.net/acess2/index.php

JaysOS:

http://badpint.org/jaysos/

(I love this one! :3)

OS (ToAruOS):

http://www.toaruos.org/
http://wiki.osdev.org/User:Klange/ToaruOS

Things you Windows/Mac users may want to see:

https://www.virtualbox.org/
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/so.....systems-934484
http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/09/26.....or-the-future/
http://technologizer.com/2011/05/15.....ating-systems/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/1.....ating_systems/
http://www.freebyte.com/operatingsystems/
http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects

Thank you for your time and happy hacking.