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Home » Computers » Software » Operating_Systems Open Source
This category lists operating systems (OSs) based on open source code. Some such OSs have closed source variants (BeOS, DOS, Unix, VMS), or straddle these two licensing models (QNX).Open Source computer programs (OSs are programs) are those that include source code, and/or for which the source code is freely available, or made available without a fee or limited permissions.On this page, OSs are arranged in three groups and levels: 1) Top group: types or classes of OS. 2) Middle group: OSs for which there are more than one instance of an OS of this name/type, an OS family. 3) Bottom group: specific OSs, individual instances; there is only one OS of this name/type.These links occupying the top of this page, above the links with descriptions, lead to other directory categories which hold open source OSs which have other, more distinctive traits that identify them as members of some class of OS found in the current directory taxonomy. OSs listed in this category are those that have no other distinctive traits by which to classify them in the current taxonomy. These all seem to have monolithic kernels. An OS is listed in this category if there seems no clearer, more specific category for it.This category also has some other links that are hard to fit elsewhere, of which there are always a few.
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| InfiniteOS - An open source OS for the Mac. No real GUI yet, it is more of a CLI.
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| | FreeOS - Provides articles, documentation, links to software, and news about Linux and other operating systems.
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| | 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.
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| | 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.
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| | 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.
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| | STORM - New free French OS with source!
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| | LittleOS - New operating system. Goal: to be stable and easy to use. Everyone can join. In Français and English. [Open Source]
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| | 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]
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| | 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.
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| | 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.
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| | 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.
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| | Free Operating Systems - Short, annotated, alphabetically sorted list and links, part of larger system.
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| | Managing the Complexity Curve - Short paper explains ease, costs to maintain system changes over time. Two models contrasted: closed vs. open source. For closed source, the more one knows, the harder it gets. For open source, the more one knows, the easier it gets.
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| | Stupid OS - OS from India, coded in assembly and C; news, source and binary downloads. [Open Source]
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| | WebRing: Free Operating Systems - Several sites offering free OSs.
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| | 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]
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| | 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]
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| | 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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| | Report: Japan, Korea, China to Break Windows Ties - Plans for governments and private sector firms of China, Japan, South Korea, to jointly work together to develop new OS to rival Microsoft Windows to be unveiled later this week, according to 2 Japanese newspaper reports. [InfoWorld]
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| | IDA Open Source Migration Guidelines - From EUROPA Interchange of Data between Administrations, European Commission strategic initiative; practical, detailed recommendations ton migrate to Open Source Software office programs, calendaring, e-mail, others; developed with guidance from public sector IT experts of 9 nations; 418 pages; description, downloads.
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| | China to Invest in Linux-based Software - Government plans to put financial effort into Linux-based software; may rival Microsoft Windows in one of world's fastest-growing technology markets, official says. [CNN.com]
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