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AtheOS is an GPL’ed alternative OS running on Intel based PCs. It was not designed to be a *nix clone, incorporates an integrated GUI (i.e. not X based) and supports the Intel Multi Processor architecture through SMP multi-threading. Like BeOs, it includes an object oriented subsystems, and features a journaling filesystem, although any other similarities are superficial.
BeOS or Be Operating System is a defunct operating system from the ‘90s that ran on a variety of platforms, including x86, PowerPC and the original BeBox hardware platform.
BeOS featured multithreading, preemptive multitasking, a new journaled file system, POSIX compatibility, and a bash interface.
The Haiku project continues development on an open source version of BeOS.
PC-BSD is a free, open-source operating system based on FreeBSD, that uses a unique style of package management that is more similar to the Windows install process.
PC-BSD has as its goals to be an easy to install and use desktop OS, which is built on the FreeBSD operating system. To accomplish this, it currently has a graphical installation, which will enable even UNIX novices to easily install and get it running. It will also come with KDE pre-built, so that the desktop can be used immediately. Currently in development is a graphical software installation program, which will make installing pre-built software as easy as other popular operating systems.