Developers keep making operating systems to call their own. Maybe out of pure vanity we take pride of their programs or set of inter-related programs as an operating system. The following list is in alphabetical order.

E/OS LX is a desktop for MS-DOS, compatible with Linux and Win32 applications. It runs on an i386 with 8 MB of RAM. There is a Lite version that only needs 4 MB of RAM.

Menuet is written in Assembly and fits in a floppy. It needs mouse, i386, 32 MB of RAM and 1 MB Display Vesa 2.0+ LFB. I have not been able to make this OS run yet.

NewOS is an operating system that is under development written in C, C++ and assembly. This operating system can fit on a floppy.

ReactOS is a project to create an operating system compatible with the Windows NT kernel, DOS, OS/2 and Java subsystems. According to the developing group, this system is 93.8% complete, current version 0.3.0 RC1.

SEAL is a 32-bit graphical user interface for DOS. It runs on an i486 processor with 8 MB of RAM, DOS 3.0 or higher and at least 1.6 MB of hard disk space.

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