Review of Operating Systems


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Contents

This index favors original and research operating systems. In each category, systems are listed in alphabetical order.

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


Free OSes

Original Free OS Projects

Free Unix akins and likes

Educational OSes

These are instructional OSes developed and used in some Universities for their OS courses. They are freely available, and have some docs, too. In portable C, unless stated otherwise.


Popular Commercial OSes and their clones

Original contributions from Commercial systems

Commercial Unices and beyond

Lots of commercial vendors base their system on the Unix family of design, as standardized in POSIX.
The existence of free Unix systems like the great Linux forces them to find justifications for charging so much for systems that were so lame; hence, recently, significant OS research has been done by commercial companies, even though the benefit for users and developers is not obvious, as "protected" research is by definition not beneficial to people.

DOS-class systems and extensions

Because DOS has been such a phenomenon in OS history, despite its absolute lamedom, it ought to have a place here. Rather, alternative solutions ought...

Losedoze-class systems

The same company consistently produces the worst wimpy OS, hence this section...


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