Review of Other Operating Systems


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Contents

This index favors original and research operating systems.

  • Original OS Projects, that try to go beyond traditional system design.
  • Unix akins and alikes, that try to perpetrate, with local enhancements, the traditional OS bloat.
  • Commercial systems, that can be traditional or not, but embody the what is available to the common of mortal men.

  • OS Related pointers

    Of course, do not forget languages that are another side of computing systems.


    Original OS Projects


    Unix akins and likes


    Commercial OSes


    OS Related Pointers

  • Indices about OSes and related subjects:

  • Here are pointers to packages for distributed/parallel computing:
  • Here are pointers to threads packages:
  • Here are some research laboratories interested in operating systems (send me more addresses):
  • Here are some sources of inspiration for people developping a 32-bit OS on PC's:
  • lots of code from the cygnus support archive (also mirrored by sunsite UK), including VSTa, MMURTL, other OSes, and FORTH systems.
  • DOS extenders in the x2ftp archive (some interesting docs around, too) (French mirror here)
  • Some 32-bit FORTH systems from the taygeta archive
  • David Lindauer's OS Kernel 1.00
  • Nathan Hawkins' Radix
  • and of course, the code for all the free OSes above, including Tunes.
  • Other OS projects you could join:
    Of course, I'd encourage you to join Tunes if you are looking for a deep rethinking of an OS, VSTa if you like custom microkernel-based message passing, GNU HURD if you like the new wave for computer tradition, Linux if you like the old traditional unixish approach. But if none of these please you, if you like doing things from almost scratch, here are projects that might interest you:
  • Other OS-related pages


    More netsurfing

  • The Tunes project that hosts this page may interest you, or
  • this collection of FTP addresses, or
  • Yahoo the WWW directory.

    And remember, the "OS" side is only one side of the medal. Also look at the Language side.


    To Do on this page

  • Actually review these OSes, do not merely point to them. Gasp.
  • Talk about the open development model, as used in Linux.
  • Have a look at OI and MLI
  • Add pointers to SPACE and GLOBE
  • Add pointers to Choices and Pegasus, as well as to all pages pointed in various OS indexes...
  • Send a note to all the OS pages that do not cite us, as well as to Yahoo.
  • Add these bibliographic pointers from the OS FAQ: Checkpointing, cstr, German Bib, Arizonian Bib, bibliographies, UFS 93.
  • Add these OS FTP pointers from the OS FAQ: Clouds, Cronus, Guide, Horus, Isis (also here), X kernel.
  • FTP sites with OS-related stuff: in France, England, Taiwan.
  • Find out more about STAPLE, a persistent lazy-functional-language based project (FTP).
  • Be, inc.
  • How to write a systems paper (get a text version by sending body "send advice papers" to info@usenix.org)
  • Rumor, a user-level version of Ficus, an optimistically replicated file system (see for a summary of Ficus and for a description of Rumor). Unfortunately, Rumor is not yet being distributed.
  • I don't know in what section to put this: Floppy Drive Formats
  • See the VINO project
  • EROS Extremely Reliable OS


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