Operating System Technology

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Clusters

• Open Cluster Group

Operating Systems

• AIX is IBM's version of Unix, nowadays mostly for the RS6000.
• Amiga Developer Support is about the new generation Amiga operating system.
• BSD is the Berkeley System Distribution, a free software Unix.
• CapROS is the Capability-based Reliable Operating System evolved from
  • EROS is the Extremely Reliable Operating System, a capabilities-based model from U. of Penn.
• DRDOS, the DOS clone, is still around as an embedded operating system, along with DRLX (embedded Linux).
  • Club DR-DOS is user group self-support of DR-DOS.
• FreeDOS "aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system."
• FREESCO is an OS to turn a PC into a free, single-floppy router.
• Hurd is the latest GNU operating system.
• Linux is free software Unix.
• MS-DOS Programmer FAQ
• MINIX 3 is a very small open-source OS based on the venerable ancestor of Linux.
• OS/400 is IBM's midrange operating system, sometimes called i/OS.
• Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed computing OS.
  
• TinyOS is an operating system for networked sensors.
• VMS/OpenVMS
  • DJE Systems' Open VMS Page is a great resource for the large and small OpenVMS user.
    

Hypervisors

• VMWare  is a commercial multiple virtual machine project for desktop PC's.
• Xen Virtual Machine Monitor
  
  • University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Xen page
  • Xen on OpenBSD
    

Development Kits and Tools

• OSKit provides modules to lower the barrier to entry to OS R&D.

Multiple Boot Managers

• GAG Gestor de Arranque Grafico (Graphical Boot Manager) -- GPL'ed with source.
• OSLoader
  
• FreeDOS includes a multiple boot manager of sorts.
• Ranish Partition Manager -- with source.
  • XOSL eXtended Operating System Loader -- GPL'ed with source
    

Network Boot Suites

• Etherboot allows you to boot Linux and other operating systems over the net. Based on built-in drivers.
• Netboot allows you boot Linux and other operating systems over the net based on older DOS packet drivers.
• NILO allows you to boot Linux and other operating systems over the net.
• ROM-O-Matic generates custom Etherboot images.

Of Interest

• ACM SIGOPS is the Operating System Special Interest Group of the Association for Computing Machinery
• Computers in Spaceflight, The NASA Experience
  
• Digital Research Librarian has old CP/M and MP/M manuals and the like.
• Flux Research Group works in software systems research.
• Netcraft will tell what operating system it thinks is running on an internet site.
• Operating Systems Developers Home Page has, among other things, one of the longest lists of operating systems we've seen!
• The Operating Systems Handbook covers Unix, VMS, VM, MVS and OS/400, formerly a hardbound from McGraw-Hill, now freely downloadable in PDF format from the author!
• Operating System Resource Center has everything from principles to microprocessor info.
• OSData.com presents in-depth comparison of operating systems and their features.
• OSDir.com provides info about open source including screen shots of various operating systems.
• OS FAQ Wiki
  

See Also

• Jax RCFB BSD Page
  
• Jax RCFB Forth Page
• Jax RCFB VM & S/390 Page