SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Operating Systems other than Linux

Alternative OSes in General:

• AltOS Homepage  Practical Alternatives to M$ OSes; many.
• Index of Alternative Operating Systems
• OS Comparison chart  Most common OSes.
• The OSkit  A set of libraries from which OS kernels can be (and have been) developed, including a "Java OS".
• Research and Experimental Operating Systems  By C.Browne
• Starshine: Operating Systems: Some Comments  List of and info on non-M$ OSes.
• Current Operating Systems Projects and OS-related research  With a list of lists.
• Operating Systems on the Web
• Entrapid Network Service Creation Environment  $, free to some; "lets users create, in a single user-level process, an entire network of virtual machines that each run an OS kernel. This uniquely allows students and researchers to design, implement, and test a broad range of protocols and services in a validated, controlled, and highly customizable setting."

Specific OSes:

• Amoeba Distributed OS  OS is distributed across multiple computers; free.
• Mac OS:
  • Apple, Inc.
  • Netatalk - An Introduction  "a Unix implementation of Apple's suite of networking protocols"
  • Ask Slashdot: MacOS 8 and Linux Servers
• ^Microsoft, M$ software, and interoperability SW
• Netware  By Novell.
• NSBIOS by Ashod Apakian  New super-duper network OS all in 80KB.
• Unix-like, non-Linux OSes  Unix; ^BSD; ^QNX; ^Open Group.
• VMS:
  •   "a project to build a OpenVMS look-a-like" www.free-vms.org
  • Confessions of a Former VMS Junkie  Feb'98 LG

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