A Neutral Look at Operating Systems

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The purpose of this book is to provide a neutral view of as many Operating Systems as possible. This book strives to provide solid information on Operating Systems without the ever-prevalent "distribution bias".

Wikipedia has a comparison of operating systems.

[edit] Brief contents

1. Unix derivatives
   1. Unix
      1. Solaris - Wikipedia:Solaris Operating Environment
      2. Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)
      3. Linux
      4. Hurd - Wikipedia:GNU Hurd
   2. Plan 9 - Wikipedia:Plan 9 (operating system)
   3. Inferno - Wikipedia:Inferno (operating system)
   4. QNX - Wikipedia:QNX
2. CP/M derivatives
   1. Control Program for Microcomputers
   2. DOS
   3. Microsoft Windows
   4. OS/2
3. Mac OS
4. Risc OS - Wikipedia:Risc OS
5. EROS - Wikipedia:EROS
6. AmigaOS - Wikipedia:AmigaOS
   1. Aros - Wikipedia:Aros
      1. AmigaOS 4.x - Wikipedia:AmigaOS 4
      2. MorphOS - Wikipedia:MorphOS
7. BeOS - Wikipedia:BeOS

[edit] Extended contents

This lists the operating system variants contained in this book.

1. Unix derivatives
   1. Unix
      1. Solaris - Wikipedia:Solaris Operating Environment
      2. Berkeley Software Distribution
         1. DragonFly BSD
         2. FreeBSD
            1. PC-BSD
         3. NetBSD
         4. OpenBSD
            1. MirOS BSD
         5. Quasijarus
      3. Linux
         1. Live CDs
            1. Knoppix
         2. Distributions for New Users
            1. Fedora Core
            2. Mandriva Linux
            3. Ubuntu Linux
            4. SUSE
         3. Distributions for Power Users
            1. Debian GNU/Linux
            2. Slackware
         4. Distributions for Masochists (just kidding)
            1. Gentoo
            2. Linux From Scratch
      4. Hurd - Wikipedia:GNU Hurd
   2. Plan 9 - Wikipedia:Plan 9 (operating system)
   3. Inferno - Wikipedia:Inferno (operating system)
   4. QNX - Wikipedia:QNX
2. CP/M derivatives
   1. Control Program for Microcomputers
   2. DOS
      1. FreeDOS
   3. Microsoft Windows
      1. Windows 2, Windows 3, Windows 3.1
      2. Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows Me
      3. Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
      4. ReactOS
   4. OS/2
3. Mac OS
   1. Mac OS to version 9
   2. Mac OS X
4. Risc OS - Wikipedia:Risc OS
5. EROS - Wikipedia:EROS
6. AmigaOS - Wikipedia:AmigaOS
   1. AmigaOS 1.0, AmigaOS 1.1, AmigaOS 1.2, AmigaOS 1.3
   2. AmigaOS 1.4
   3. AmigaOS 2.0, AmigaOS 2.05, AmigaOS 2.1
   4. AmigaOS 3.0, AmigaOS 3.1
   5. AmigaOS 3.5, AmigaOS 3.9
      1. Aros
         1. AmigaOS 4.x - Wikipedia:AmigaOS 4
         2. MorphOS - Wikipedia:MorphOS
7. BeOS - Wikipedia:BeOS

[edit] Authors

• Kernigh, expanded Berkeley Software Distribution chapter
• aGGreSSor, expanded AmigaOS chapter
• Other and anonymous contributors