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Topia!: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Open Source (21)
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FreeOS.com - Resource Center for Free Operating Systems: articles, documentation, download sites, news, links, and anything related to all Free OSs. legOS - Unofficial, free Lego OS: open-source embedded OS for LEGO Mindstorms (Lego bricks with brains). Compared to the standard software, it has far better performance and flexibility. Free Linux CD Project - Volunteers who send used Linux and other open source OS CDs to people who need them. Please contribute your CDs or get a Free CD. Corel's Open Source Development Community - Corel shows a strong commitment to the Open Source community and devotes large resources to projects such as setup UI, WINE, printing technologies. STORM - New free French OS with source! LittleOS - New operating system. Goal: to be stable and easy to use. Everyone can join. In Français and English. [Open Source] BOS - Starting, in planning stage, with bootloader. Mix of DOS and Unix. Goals: modular, fast. Kernel is pmode, command line is rmode. Written in assembly (NASM), C, C++ (GCC). [Open Source, GNU] KOSH: Community Operating System and Hardware - A concept that has been around in one form or another for many years. Its root is the failure of single companies to address all the needs of all its customers, lack of interactivity, communications, feedback and involvement between producer and consumer, and lack of radical advancement and innovation due to fear of the producer in alienating its biggest customers. Cefarix OS - New project, intended as stable, fast, secure, reliable, easy to use, 32-bit protected mode OS for x86 and later PowerPC systems, open source, many features, graphical user interface (GUI), to replace Microsoft Windows, all versions. GeckOS/A65 - Full-featured, preemptive multi-tasking/threading operating system for 6502. Implements some Unix-like features: signals, semaphores, relocatable fileformat, standard library, internet support via a type of simplified sockets, virtual consoles. Bill Currie kernel - DJGPP-built OS kernel. Does little so far, but may be used as starting point. Needs working GNU C/C++ capable DJGPP sed, djasm, Bison, djp file compression. Free Operating Systems - Short, annotated, alphabetically sorted list and links, part of larger system. Managing the Complexity Curve - Short paper explains ease and expense to maintain OS changes over time. Contrasting models are shown for closed vs. open source: with closed source, the more you know the harder it gets, with open source the more you know the easier it gets. Stupid OS - OS from India, coded in assembly and C; news, source and binary downloads. [Open Source] WebRing: Free Operating Systems - Several sites offering free OSs. XMLOS mailing list - eXtensible Markup Language OS; mailing list for XMLOS open source initiative, soon to be putting up a website. To be built using XML, XSL, XSLT, and XQL. Colelus - By Daybo Logic. Goals: make a programmers' OS, usable by all, not as complex as Unix, NT compatible, but stable and free. Now ended; but all code, tools, libraries are archived for free download. [Open Source] Japanese Manufacturers Back Off Proprietary OSes - Japanese consumer electronics makers are backing away from efforts to move proprietary OSs into wider use, turning instead to open source OSs, mostly Linux. [EE Times] Bart - Multivalue database virtual machine for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 with development tools; best summed up as Pick for Windows, stable software, not commercial product but complete enough to be considered Beta grade. [Free] Japan, China, Korea May Develop Windows Replacement - Set to agree to jointly develop new OS as alternative to Microsoft Windows, Japan media reports; if plan matures, the 3 nations will likely build on open source OS, such as Linux, and develop low cost, trustworthy system. [Reuters]
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