Operating Systems

This page contains information and links related to general purpose Operating Systems. Real-Time Operating Systems are listed here. There are also some links to hardware related links for these operating systems.

General Information

Virtuelles Computermuseum - a lot of background info about computers and operating systems
Yahoo! - Computers and Internet: Software: Operrating Systems -
OSRC The Operating System Resource Center -
Review of Operating Systems -

Microsoft OS

Other Microsoft OS

Microsoft Windows 2000 -
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation -
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server -
Microsoft Windows NT High Availability Operations Guide: Implementing Systems for Reliability and Availability -
Microsoft Windows 95 -
Microsoft Windows 98 -
Microsoft Windows 3.1 - Microsoft's 16 bit operating system with graphical user interface, there is currently no link on the Microsoft Homepage (no longer supported, last version was MS Windows 3.11)
Microsoft MS DOS - Microsoft's 16 bit operating system, there is currently no link on the Microsoft Homepage (no longer supported, last version was MS DOS 6.22)

Other DOS and Windows Versions

FreeDOS - a free DOS version, including source ccode
Wine - a Windows interface based on Linux

IBM OS

Apple

The Apple Online Museum -

Apple MacOS

MacOS X -

Unix

SCO Unix -
Free BSD Unix -

Minix

Minix -

Linux

For real-time Linux click here.

Linux -
Novell S.u.S.E. - Linux distribution from Germany, now owned by Novell
RedHat - probably the most widely used Linux diistribution worldwide
Debian - a free Linux distribution
Ubuntu Linux -
GNOME - a desktop environment for Linux, basedd on XWindows, similar to KDE
KDE - the K Desktop Environment for Linux, bbased on XWindows
developer.kde.org - the KDE Developers' Web Site
KDevelop - the KDE Integrated Development Environnment IDE for Linux
Wine - a Windows interface based on Linux
The Linux Kernel Archives -
Security-Enhanced Linux - brought to you by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
DLR Fresh Archive - linux/src -
Troll Tech - the developers of QT, the Windows class library used for KDE
Linuxland -
muLinux Project Home Page - the Micro Linux project, a minimalistic but complete Linux systems that fits on one or two 3,5" disks
muLinux - Linux on a floppy disk -
tomsrtbt - Linux on a floppy disk -