Operating Systems

Operating system for the CPC6128 and CPC-Plus. Information, downloads and help.

Offers custom vibration patterns, quick toggles, application shortcuts, LED notifications. Device database, tutorials.

How-to guides, general information, upgrades, identifying motherboards, links!

For PCs, analyzes filesystems, supports Linux kernel and chainboot.

Boot loader for Shag/OS which also supports, Linux and other PC operating systems. Includes source.

Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System: teaching OS coded in C++ subset, developed at UC Berkeley for OS and Systems Programming classes; now used worldwide. Descriptions, FAQ, port and bug lists, assignments, downloads. [Open Source]

Review of Boot to Gecko (later Firefox OS) after Mozilla's presentation at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in 2012.

Table that covers which versions of Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 will run on which Macintosh computers.

Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.

Windows 7 | 8 - Tips, tricks, tutorials, news, freeware downloads, feature discussions.

Second known implementation of Internet protocol (IP) for low-end computers; can at once be network client, server, IP packet router; support multiple client and server sessions. Description, downloads, zip format. Original author.

List of companies who sell computers with OS/2 preloaded, as well as Netscape plugins, hints, and tips.

Wiki for collecting information about the inner workings of webOS.

Makes Salvo RTOS, designed expressly for very low cost embedded systems with highly limited ROM and RAM (normal uses: 1-2K ROM, 50-100 bytes RAM) and/or no software stack. Priority-based, cooperative multitasking, event services, real-time delays.

Assembly coded high performance kernels, internet protocols (TCP/IP), filesystem, support for distributed systems, DRUID system level debugger. Supports most 32-bit processors; COMPACT is for 8/16-bit controllers. By Litronic AG.

Official homepage of the company. Jolla smartphones run on the Sailfish operating system.

Information on technology, architecture, the Sailfish Alliance and license.

News, reviews and discussion about MeeGo and Sailfish.

From Proceedings of the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Boston, USA, October 1992.

Downloads, announcements, and a forum. Programming languages: Assembly, C, and C++.

Custom THEOS Programming

System administration, shell programming and scripting, hardware and software issues.

Solaris, Linux, Vmware, Redhat Linux and veritas volume manager/cluster tutorials. Also shares a real time production issue on those products and sharing the solutions. Free e-books.

Hyperlinked encyclopedia article about iOS with its history of updates, features, development information, list of supported devices and digital rights management.

Wirelessly manage, control and access to Android Devices from a web browser Over-The-Air.

Performs Tasks (sets of Actions) based on Contexts (application, time, date, location, event, gesture) in user-defined Profiles, or in clickable or timer home screen widgets.

Collection of apps to do with sound and music.

Provides the SDK's news, tutorials, links for downloads and a discussion board.

Online tool to build apps (including ones for Android) with database management, maps and PayPal integration.

Offers a simple way to create mobile apps for iPhone and Android.

Online tool to test Apple push notification service (APNS) and Google cloud messaging (GCM) without the need to set up any backend. It helps the developers to test Push Notification functionality without web developer support.

Discussion board about the mobile platform. Offers tutorials and tips.

Tutorial on how to use Android phones and tablets, from the elements of the user interface to updating and resetting the device.

Contains thousands of Android wallpapers grouped according to smartphone brand and model, and also according to themes.

News about software, hardware and developers tools.

Software and hardware news and reviews.

Android news and reviews of apps, phones, other devices, ROMs and accessories. Tutorials for beginners.

News and discussion regarding the Android operating system and devices. Guides, forum and even a shop.

Blog with the latest Android news and many rooting guides.

Android news with videos about smartphones and tablets, leaks and rumours, games and apps.

Dedicated to Android updates: rooting tutorials, custom ROMs and app reviews.

News and reviews of Android apps and devices with special emphasis on products aiming at independence from Google.

Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.

A project aiming to provide free and open source implementations of Open Firmware. Includes news, documentation and resources for developers.

Multiboot boot loader derived from GRUB, GRand Unified Bootloader. Includes development information, download and developers wiki.

DOS and Win32 GRUB ports.

LILO installation and configuration.

Encyclopedic article.

Alternative Linux Desktop Environment, provides an object-orientated and extensible C++/Java application framework.

API toolkit for developing GUIs with LCD driver library graphics and graphical display controller drivers. Graphic LCD module application using advanced features like proportional writing, icons, lists and scroll boxes, line drawing.