Operating Systems
An operating system is a collection of software that directs a computer's operations, controlling and scheduling the execution of other programs, and managing storage, input/output, and communication resources. But How Operating Systems Work?
- DOS
- Microsoft Windows
- MacOS?
- Linux
- UNIX, Solaris, BSD?, Darwin?, MacOSX?
- Review of Operating Systems
There are so many operating systems in use, do you want to know where they are being used? Check out Operating System User Worldmap Survey. *nix die-hards who are forced to use Windows, you may want to check out UWIN, Cygwin, Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX, GnuWin32, and UnxUtils.
GNU Screen
- Installing and Using GNU Screen
- SCREEN - the terminal multiplexer
- screen-3.9.9
- Using Screen in Scripts
Boot
- "Error Loading Operating System"
- http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Q_20829132.html
- http://www.computing.net/os2/wwwboard/forum/1437.html
- http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/152747.html
Emulators
- PearPC - Run Mac OS X on Windows (x86). Unfortunatly one of the co-authors Stefan Weyergraf died because of accident at 4 July 2004. R.I.P.
- CherryOS
- Bochs - PC emulator on most popular platforms
- User-mode Linux - Run Linux on Linux
- coLinux - Run Linux on Windows (by cygwin)
- VMware - Run Linux on Windows
- Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 - Previously, a Connectix product which is bought by Microsoft
- Cygwin - Emulate Linux on Windows
- DOSBox - DOS emulator for Windows
- DOSEMU - DOS emulation for Windows
- Wine - Windows emulator for Linux
- The Xen virtual machine monitor - Will not run on Windows due to licence restrictions.
- QEMU
Plan 9
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs - By Rob Pike who now went to Google.
Misc
- Linux-Noob - For some linux tips
- JDistro - A desktop in pure Java
- Java Desktop for X Window - Allows Java Jar and class files to be executed like a native application while supporting all the existing native applications
- ReactOS - An open-source clone of Windows NT 4.0.