Operating Systems

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A free MS Word document reader for OS/2 and other operating systems.

Home of File Commander, the Norton clone, Warpster, a Napster port, and Apache/2.

Japanese messaging software: POP Mail Checker, Telnet Chatter and DayTalk.

Tiny Java OS for Lego RCX brick. Like its predecessor TinyVM, has tiny Java runtime, under 32K; works as replacement firmware for Lego; Hitachi H8300 processor. To be ported to more small devices. [Open Source, Mozilla]

Goal: create modern 32/64-bit OS, based on ideas of object-orientation, nanokernel; coded in C++, C and Assembly where needed. Open source, BSD.

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

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

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

Abstract of article by Jonathan S. Shapiro, Norm Hardy; published by IEEE Computer Society. [IEEE Software]

Portable, mini realtime scheduler (RTOS kernel); how to make full embedded solutions on Windows host with quality open source tools, low cost hardware; supports ARM7, PIC18, 8051, Atmel(Mega)AVR, RDC8822 (AMD AM186 clone), PC with DOS. [Open Source, GPL]

High integrity engineering design, development, production; focus: software, safety critical engineering of software and systems; makes and supports FreeRTOS variants SafeRTOS, FreeRTOS-pro. Bristol, UK.

A secure platform for applications that use digital signatures. Based on L4 and Linux. Research project at Applied Data Security Group, Ruhr-University Bochum., Germany.

What and where is XFree86, installing the binaries, and running XFree86.

Goals: develop free, portable, small, well-designed RTOS for embedded hardware platforms: SBC (Single Board Computers), SOM (System on Module), SoC (System on Chip). Free.

Portable, small, realtime microkernel 32-bit OS for embedded systems, coded in C, POSIX emulation layer. Open source, BSD.

Describes firm and product (Nucleus), with related links. [Embedded Star]

RTOS simulator based on event-driven simulation methods with concurrent target debugging abilities, mimics OS behavior, to implement and test embedded software on workstations. Descriptions, downloads, documents. [Savannah, Open Source, GPL]

Open source multitasking embedded operating system with a proven track record, expressly designed for embedded devices with limited resources.

DACHS fieldbus technologies for Open Control Architecture with QNX, IEC1131-3 and industrial hard- and software standards meet requirements of industrial automation today and tomorrow. This open system is cost-effective by minimizing costs of ownership.

QNX RTOS training courses (focus: programming, system administration), consulting, programming. Specialty: medical device connection in critical care workplaces, standards IEEE 1073 MIB, CEN/TC 251 WG IV.

Home of Workspace, a free yet powerful Photon native code editor, downloads, modules, screenshots, guest book.

Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems. Runs on: AMD 29K; Hitachi SH; HP PA-RISC; ix86, i960; m683x0, m680x0, mPPC, mColdfire; MIPS R46x0, SPARC. Multiple APIs: RTEMS, POSIX-Unix, uITRON. Written in Ada, C/C++. [Open Source]

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

VxWorks RTOS product overview page on Windriver.com. Product overview, resources and contact information.

HUGE 99/4A and related file site. This FTP has become the central file storage area for 99er's. Includes scanned document versions of all Micropendium magazines.

BSD support forum, message board; covers all BSD Unix operating systems; forums, FAQ, member list, registration, calendar, new posts, journal, search, link database.

A virtual command line interface that works in browser and looks similar to FreeBSD 7.x.

A BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind.

Discussion board related to IRIX and other Unix software.

Overview article on the system and its history.

An open-source UNIX-like operating system with GUI and network support. Developed at the University of Illinois.

Annotated source code examples for most Unix system and library calls. Plus working source code examples of some classic algorithms.

Former Caldera Systems is center of UnitedLinux consortium, but normal Unix customers, small-mid size businesses, are its main income. Heavy turnover in SCO sales organization makes it hard to get firm's attention. [Baseline]

How to secure your Unix computer system (emphasis on HP-UX).

An emulator of OpenVMS's Digital Command Language for Windows and UNIX

A highly programmable shell inspired by the rc shell and scheme. Mailing list archives and source code.

Reduced Memory Footprint; goals: match functions of MS-DOS 6.22, IBM PC DOS 7.00, DR-DOS 7 subset. Written mainly in 2 free C compilers and assembler, most parts are smaller uncompressed than compressed parts of MS, IBM, DR. [Open Source, BSD]

Collection of reviews organized into categories.

Brief announcement of first THE (Archy) release, with over 50 forum comments. [OSNews.com]

Window manager with partial KDE compliant (KDE hint support).

A lightweight time management program.

2004 KDE World Summit, code-named aKademy, in Ludwigsburg/Germany. It is spanning 9 days with an exciting program.

Information and documentation for the KDE desktop, applications, teams, events. Classified into three categories for users, developers and teams.

A Python binding library.

A collection of flash videos tutorials showing how to develop programs and how use the graphic tool Fluid, which is include into the library distribution.

For designing parallel applications with threads.

Is a FLTK Canvas implementing the Arcball rotation control based on quaternions.

A collection of widgets, dialogs, and utility functions for fltk 1.1.x wrapped into a demo.

A two dimensional graph widget for FLTK that plots points coordinates and scales automatically to fit the graph in the window.