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Operating systems

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• Windows

  • See also ReactOS.

• Linux >

  • Linux distributions
  • GNU Hurd
  • Zaurus SL-C1000 > Zaurus distributions

• BSD >

  • BSD distributions
  • See also Minix3.

Bootloaders ∞

/tag/bootloaders

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20171103025847/http://rojer.pmail.pl:80/Smart%20Boot%20Manager%203.7.2.html

• GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB

  • https://code.google.com/archive/p/grub4dos-chenall/downloads

Other operating systems ∞

• Syllable

  • In the tradition of the Amiga and BeOS, but built using many parts from the GNU project and Linux.

• Atomic OS

  • Built in WAJAX.

• multi-dvd

  • Has a penetration-testing/etc focus

• Contiki

  • http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/ports/
  • x86 port (in German)

• Open Solaris

  • 2005-06-20 -- It looks good. It's even officially supported by Sun. Their intention is to build their future Solaris distributions from the OpenSolaris code base and to share as much code as possible. Smart move!
  • 2005-10-17 or earlier -- followup: Nevermind; I don't care anymore

• proolix

  • An 8086+ POSIX-compliant OS.

• Plan9

  • Very long history, it works but is probably way over my head.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20170429122639/http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/
    -- https://web.archive.org/web/20170205083649/http://plan9.bell-labs.com:80/sys/doc/9.html

• coyotos

  • Based on eros. Not anywhere useful yet.

• GNUstep

  • The purpose of this project is to create a free and open version of the Cocoa (formerly known as NeXTSTEP/OpenStep) APIs and tools for as many platforms as possible.
  • Not a desktop/user OS - A pseudo-OS made for programmers by programmers. Therefore, it's horifically ugly. Touted as being really cool.. but.. it's.. ugly. Come on people. Well, it's a complete Objective-C IDE.. supposedly.

• QNX

  • I can't find much of a reference to the Amiga though - their operating system

• https://web.archive.org/web/20121103123507/http://visopsys.org:80/index.html

  • A disk partitioning-centric OS, done from scratch and fits on a floppy.. with a GUI and preemptive multitasking.

Plan9 ∞

(on Wikipedia)

https://github.com/brho/plan9

From 2005-12-27

Plan9 has been around for some time, and reading through "Plan 9 from Bell Labs was quite interesting.

Here's a cute quote:

The fourth edition (the current one) is made available under the Lucent Public License version 1.02. Adopted to address shortcomings in the Plan 9 License, the Lucent Public License 1.02 is identical the IBM Public License 1.0 except that it does not require source code to be distributed with derived works; it is non-viral.

-- https://web.archive.org/web/20060118025031/http://plan9.bell-labs.com:80/plan9dist/about.html

Non-viral.. heh. Some people just don't get it.

Web operating systems ∞

All abandoned, thankfully:

• A Web OS? Are You Dense?

• www.youos.com

  • manifesto
  • FAQ
• eyeos.org
• www.goowy.com
• www.workspot.com

• www.odesktop.net

Stuff ∞

• http://tunes.org/Review/OSes.html