Resources: Operating Systems
Jim and
Heather each have
more verbose comments about operating systems, including more
outside links.
Comparisons or listings of mulitple OS'
Fari's Review of Operating Systems
Patrick Bridges' Operating Systems Projects
Server OS Technical Comparison - a huge site maintained by
Milo (no last name given)
Practical Alternatives to Microsoft Operating Systems
hosted by AltOS in the UK
Some sections on Yahoo! that cover this (and will hopefully have new and more up-to-date links than we can maintain):
Yahoo! - Computers and Internet:
Software:
Operating Systems:
Unix
Unix: BSD:
FreeBSD
Unix:
Linux
Research
A bunch of NT/95 related links:
Virtually Un*x - UNIX tools ported to Windows95.
Dusty, but good stuff.
OpenNT was renamed to Interix
The GNU-Win32 Project Page
JP Software's COMMAND.COM replacements eat its lunch. Highly recommended.
Realtime systems
u/COS (FTP at
Cygnus Solutions)
-- embeddable
Lynx Real-Time Systems Not to be confused with the
Lynx text mode web browser.
RTOS OS from CMX Company
OS-9 Microware Systems' compact real-time OS, used by
the Tandy CoCo (see the
FAQ)
OSE Products
Harmony
QNX
RTEMS Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems
- source available!
RTEMS new primary site (though the other one is easier to read)
VxWorks a part of Tornado, from Wind River Systems
Real-Time Linux
Environments, not strictly speaking OS'
GNUstep Homepage
WINE - WINE is
Not Emulation of
MS Windows
(tm)
XFree86 (tm)
MI/X is MicroImage's free X server for Macintosh or Windows
X Appeal ported to DOS (not Windows) by
Xtreme (commercial/demo avail)
Random or maybe arbitrary OS links:
The Grasshopper Operating System being designed explicitly
for persistent systems
Hurd (GNU Kernel)
The FreeDOS Project