Operating Systems

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Contents 1 Unix and POSIX Compliant Operating Systems 1.1 Linux Distributions 1.2 BSD 1.3 System V 2 BeOS 3 Microsoft 4 Apple Macintosh 5 Virtualization 6 Misc from front page 7 Booting Up 7.1 Boot Loaders 8 Operating System Components

Unix and POSIX Compliant Operating Systems

Linux Distributions

As you can see from the following list, there are many different types of linux.

Debian

Ubuntu

RedHat

CentOS

SUSE Linux

Mandrake Linux

Slackware

Puppy Linux

Damn Small Linux

Knoppix

Gentoo

BSD

• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• NetBSD

I like the way Soekris Engineering puts it:

• FreeBSD The most powerful x86 open source Unix
• OpenBSD The most secure open source Unix available
• NetBSD The most portable open source Unix available
• Linux The most popular open source Unix

System V

• OpenSolaris

BeOS

Haiku

UNIX Tools

Microsoft

• Windows
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista

Apple Macintosh

• Mac OS X
• Macintosh OS X 10.4
• Macintosh OS X 10.4 Server

Virtualization

VMWare

User Mode Linux (UML)

Xen

Parallels

QEMU

Misc from front page

• GNU/Linux
• FreeBSD
• Mac OS X
• Virtualization

Booting Up

Only recently I learned that the term booting up comes from the idea of raising by pulling on your bootstraps. Kind of a puzzle, no?

• sysvinit

Boot Loaders

• grub
• lilo
• yaboot

Operating System Components

• Filesystem
• Kernel
• Configuration

Back to computer stuff:

• BIOS
• PXE Boot
• Init
• Kernels