Operating Systems

Alternative OSs on the net

http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~r_high/GeekOS/indexos.html Huge, comprehensive, alphabetized list of operating systems and OS link sites. All links, no comments.

badlinks.com

http://www.badlinks.com/ Links to news and sites for Macintosh, Linux, BEOS, Kosh, Amiga, YellowDogLinux, Redhat, and most other alternate OSs for the Macintosh and PC markets.

Convergence International

http://www.convergence.org/ The non-Wintel user group, supporting Acorn, Amiga, Apple, ARM, Be, NCs, PowerPC, Psion, Unix and other alternative operating systems. Services include a non-Wintel news summary.

Entries Relating to Operating System

http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/foldoc/subjects/6.htm Alphabetized list of some 500 links to entries that relate to OSs, from FOLDOC (Free Online Dictionary of Computing) at the University of Brighton, BURKS project.

Internet Operating System Counter

http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount/ Statistics on Internet OS use, WWW, FTP, and News servers. Over 940,000 hosts checked in last survey.

Jeff Silverman's operating system comparison page

http://www.commercialventvac.com/~jeffs/OS_comparison.html Compares 6 different OSs in an effort to find which is the 'best' OS: Windows 98/NT4/2000, Linux Redhat6.2/SPARC/Alpha/Itanium, SunOS PC. Good sized, interesting, useful table. System administrator viewpoint.

Microcomputer Operating Systems

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~jdm/classes/cs258/OScat/micros.html Some 70 OSs which run on microcomputers and PCs. Earlier systems have command-line, character-oriented, user interfaces, later systems are mostly GUI-based. List, with brief descriptions, no links.

Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter

http://srom.zgp.org/ The web-based operating system quality and approval metric.

Operating Systems

http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/OSs.htm Tutorials, tips, links to free online how-to guides for BeOS, DOS, Macintosh; POSIX, Unix, Linux; OS/2, Windows 3.x-95/98/Me-NT/2000/XP-CE, more, from Knowledge Hound how-to directory.

Opsys.net

http://www.opsys.net/ Operating system and development news; programming and networking resources, all in one easy to use website.

The OS Center: All About Operating Systems

http://www.icselectionguide.com/ Alphabetized descriptions and links on many operating systems, related issues, research groups and organizations.

OS Counter and Help System

http://www.oscounter.org Place to register what you feel about your OS, see what others think of it, get help with it, and/or help others with theirs.

The OS Files

http://www.TheOSFiles.com/ Total operating systems portal, providing details on all x86 based OS with news, information, secret tips, background, links and availability for every current and planned OS that runs on the PC platform, including Microsoft's Whistler.

OS Musings

http://petermonje.tripod.com/index.html News and views on operating systems and related aspects of computers.

OS News: Exploring the Future of Computing

http://www.osnews.com/ Online magazine on operating systems and computing environments.

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