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october 1998
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General
History
Research
Emulators
Unix
et alii
Free
Unix
Linux
Unixes' Standardization Efforts
Free
OSs
Net
OSs
Distributed
OSs
Realtime
OSs
Embedded
Systems OSSs
Other
OSs
Interfaces
Social
Copyleft/Open
Source
Total
World Domination (MS)
Newsgroups
Books
Free
Operating Systems
Guide to Free Operating System
Kernels
http://web.utk.edu/~williams/freeos/
Wine, a completely
alternative implementation of Windows consisting of
100% Microsoft Free code
allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes
including Linux.
http://www.winehq.com
ReactOS will be a free operating
system that can run software and drivers
compatible with Windows
NT. ReactOS is targeted for Intel systems but may be ported to others later.
http://www.sid-dis.com/reactos/
Freedows, based on the "Cache
Kernel" design developed by researchers at Stanford University, will be
able to run applications from many different OSes, like the Macintosh or
Amiga, Win95 and NT, DOS, Commodore 64 and Tandy CoCo. With the Freedows
Object Oriented Interface System GUI. Under GNU.
http://www.math.tu-clausthal.de/~matsa/freedows/english/index.html
FreeDOS (!)
http://www.freedos.org/
Free VMS (on Mach) (!!)
http://www.free-vms.org/
Free
Unix
On the Early History and
Impact of Unix (Ch. 9 of the Hauben's "Netizen's Netbook")
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x09
*On the history of Usenet
News (Hauben's)
MINIX, Tanenbaum's free &
open source, small, microkernel-based UNIX clone available for the PC was
designed for learning about OSs
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
FreeBSD
http://www.freebsd.org/
NetBSD
http://www.netbsd.org/
OpenBSD
http://www.openbsd.org/
Richard Stallman's GNU
The GNU Project started
in 1984 to develop a complete free Unix-like operating system. Variants
of the GNU system, using Linux as the kernel, are now widely used; though
often called ``Linux'', they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems.
The first test release of ``the'' GNU system, using the GNU Hurd as the
kernel, was made in August 1996.
http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/
Linux
The now mythical beginnings,
a Finnish college student needs a Unix on his PC, there is none, so he
sits down and writes one
*
The
Unixes' Standardization Efforts
The Open Group's Single UNIX
Specification
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/toc.htm
The 86open Project, a standards
effort for the Intel-Unixes, open & free, coordinated with The Open
Group's Single Unix Specification.
http://www.telly.org/86open/index.html
The Linux Standard Base (LSB)
http://www.linuxbase.org/
by Debian & Red Hat:
Linux Capatibility Standard (LCS) on the Linux Standard Base (LSB) &
under GPL
http://paradigm.uor.edu/linux/standard/
Linux® Standards Association.
Bringing Business to Linux. Controversial closed Linux standardizing effort
by Mike McLagan
http://199.184.252.30/
Sabine Helmers, Ute Hoffmann,
Jeanette Hofmann: Standard Development as Techno-social Ordering. The Case
of the Next Generation of the Internet Protocol
http://duplox.wz-berlin.de/docs/ipng/
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GNU Hurd (based on
the Mach kernel)
http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/hurd/hurd.html
Towards
a New Strategy of OS Design (paper on Hurd)
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/hurd/hurd-paper.html
GNUstep, based on the original OpenStep specification provided by NeXT,
Inc. (now Apple)
http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/GNUstep/
The Object Farm
http://www.objectfarm.org/
Xfree86, a free implementation
of the X Window System that runs on Unix, Linux, and OS/2, traditionally
focused on Intel x86 but now also supports other platforms.
http://www.xfree86.org
Copyleft/Open
Source/Public Domain
Total
World Domination (MS)
"Microsoft has issued a patch
for an IE security hole known as "The Son of Cuartango Hole" by its discoverer.
The hole could let malicious Web site operators or HTML-based email senders
view the contents of IE users' hard drives. ... Microsoft is still working
on the 16-bit version."
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28999,00.html?owv
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
- "An internal Microsoft memo released at the software giant's antitrust
trial Thursday showed the company has considered charging an annual fee
to computer users for its Windows operating system starting in 2001."
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2557206800-d3b
The "Halloween Document"
Open Source Software. A
(New?) Development Methodology
Vinod Valloppillil (VinodV).
Aug 11, 1998 -- v1.00. Microsoft Confidential (interspersed with comments
by Eric Raymond)
Open Source Software (OSS)
"poses a direct, short-term revenue and platform threat to Microsoft --
particularly in server space. Additionally, the intrinsic parallelism and
free idea exchange in OSS has benefits that are not replicable with
our current licensing model and therefore present a long term developer
mindshare threat."
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html
A followup on "Halloween
I"
Linux Operating System.
The Next Java VM?
Vinod Valloppillil (VinodV).
Josh Cohen (JoshCo) Aug 11, 1998 - v1.00 Microsoft Confidential
"In the worst case, Linux
provides a mechanism for server OEMs to provide integrated, task-specific
products and completely bypassing Microsoft revenues in this space. ...
The effect of patents and copyright in combating Linux remains to be investigated..."
http://www.opensource.org/halloween2.html
Reactions to Halloween
I & II
Microsoft's Official Response (November 5, 1998)
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/highlights/editorletter.asp
Dave Whitinger: an in-depth look at the personalities behind the Halloween
documents
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/638.html
Alan Cox: "Microsoft tried to hire me."
http://www.linux.org.uk/
Tim O'Reilly: "Open Letter to Microsoft"
http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/press/tim_msletter.html
Robert X. Cringely: Where is Eleanor Roosevelt When We Need Her? Why the
Linux World
is Upset and Shouldn't Be (The Pulpit, Nov 5, 1998)
"While Linux and Apache may be threats to Microsoft, the truth is that
Microsoft
in no way represents a threat to either Linux or Apache. No threat, none,
zilch,
nada. ... "Chase the dream, not the competition." This is precisely what
Linux and
Apache should continue to do. And the completely inadvertent outcome of
following
this strategy will be the decommoditization of Microsoft."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981105.html
Discussion of this article on slashdot
http://www.slashdot.org/articles/98/11/08/1124242.shtml
Bob Trott: Microsoft pondering legal challenge to Linux (CNN, November
6, 1998)
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9811/06/linux.threat.idg/
Discussion of this article on slashdot
http://www.slashdot.org/articles/98/11/07/1259212.shtml
MS renames Windows NT 5.0
to Windows 2000 cause it won't be finished in 1999 either.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/news/october1998/win2000.asp
Slavoj Zizek: Foreword to
the net.edition of the Communist Manifesto (in Kroatian/Slowenian, with
referrences to Billa Gatesa, hackera, Microsofta, Sam Spade, and, of course,
Karl Marx)
http://www.arkzin.com/munist/manifesto/manifest0.htm
Corporate Watch's Feature
on MS, including an interview with Noam Chomsky
http://www.corpwatch.org/feature/microsoft/
Mother Jones' Feature: Where
won't microsoft go tomorrow?
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF98/toc.html
NetAction's Anti-MS Campaign
http://www.netaction.org/msoft/ccc.html
Resist temptation - avoid
Microsoft's pillaging!
http://members.tripod.com/~antonino/countms.html
The SMASH MICRO$OFT page
http://www.zip.com.au/~guyd/smash_ms/index.htm
The Microsoft Boycott Campaign
http://msbc.simplenet.com/
Consumer Project on Technology's
Microsoft Antitrust Page
http://www.essential.org/antitrust/microsoft/
"Appraising Microsoft and
Its Global Strategies", a conference on the business practices of Microsoft
and the impact of those practices on our society, November 13-14 1997
http://www.appraising-microsoft.org/
U.S. Department of Justice
legal documents of its antitrust case against Microsoft
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases3/micros2/micros0.htm
Appeals from the United States
District Court for the District of Columbia v. Microsoft, June 23, 1998
http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/199806/97-5343a.txt
Buy MS stock now!
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/98sep/19980903.html
Daily news updates on MS
http://www.newslinx.com/newstopics/microsoft.html
... and on reno vs gates
http://www.newslinx.com/newstopics/reno_vs_gates.html
Interview mit Sun-Chef Scott
McNealy und weitere MS-Artikel (Wirtschaftswoche 15.12.1998)
http://www.wiwo.de/wwnetzwelt/47_sun.htm
CNN on the MS trial
http://cnnfn.com/specials/antitrust/
Caldera News on Caldera vs.
Microsoft
http://www.caldera.com/lawsuit/index.html
Microsoft integrates U.S.
appeals court into its operating system,
Scott Rosenberg, Salon Magazine,
June 25, 1998
http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/rose/1998/06/25straight.html
Caldera, owner of DR-DOS,
wins round in fight with MS. The source code for Windows 95 ``is among
the most valuable and confidential pieces of intellectual property in the
world,'' Microsoft lawyer James Jardine said in court
(Sheila R. McCann, The Salt
Lake Tribune, July 29, 1998)
http://www.sltrib.com/1998/jul/07291998/utah/45304.htm
micro$0ft humour page
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/4789/antims.htm
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