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- Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Education (8)
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- ACM Crossroads: Operating Freely
Description of the 3 major, freely available, Unix-like operating systems: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD. Crossroads is the student magazine of the ACM. - Benchmarking BSD and Linux
Compares FreeBSD 5.1, NetBSD 1.6.1, OpenBSD 3.4; Linux 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; to see how scalable and fast network programs are on standard PC hardware as Web servers; tests several APIs and methods. Text, graphs, benchmark code. - COTSE-Mini Unix Distributions
Links to 2 dozen mini Unix distributions: mostly Linux, also FreeBSD, SCO, Solaris MINIX, MINIX. - Linux and BSD, Open Source Giants
Succinct, clear, non-technical introduction to Linux and BSD, focus: how they are relevant to business. - Open Source Unix and Related Software Projects
Small page of logos and links to resources, distribution channels for the most popular, freely distributable Unix, and a few other projects. FREENIX links in English, Français, Norsk. - PIOS: Pleasant Interactive Operating System
Free Unix clone developed by PIE Software Inc., for x86 PC compatibles, to give a stable multi-user high security platform for use as a network server, programming work-horse, or desktop system; designed so even complex tasks are easy.
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