UNIX's for 680x0 Macintoshes and Power PC's,
YeeeHaw!
Links to some great
operating system info pages.
Amoeba
(limited license, UNIX'ish) |
A distributed OS, needs multiple machines to run
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BSDI* | I've worked for two ISP's that ran this, at least one of them is still using BSDI (the other switched to RH linux). (X11) |
Coherent | The manufacturer is out of business now, may be able to pick up a used copy from comp.os.coherent. 80286 and up. (compatible with V7, no X11 support) |
ELKS | The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset. Requires as little as 120K RAM, on an 8088 and up. Networking, swapping and other important things are still under development (as of 5/23/98). |
ESIX* | Used to run this as news server on a 486DX66, crashed a lot, but then the disk filled up a lot and the traffic was high. (Pure SVR4, X11) |
FreeBSD* (free) |
A great choice, the support for this is good (as in USENET and mailing lists).
x86 only (as of 2/98),
Alpha port in the works.
(from 386BSD 0.1, X11R6)
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GNU Hurd (free) |
Gnu's OS. Still very beta at the moment (the moment is 9/97).
(Mach3 kernel, no X so far)
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Interactive UNIX |
"The INTERACTIVE UNIX System is targeted primarily to small-
to medium-size organizations as a low-cost, resource-sharing,
multiuser system." -- Sun. (SVR3.2, X11)
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Linux* (free) |
Probably the most well-known of the free UNIX's.
Everybody and their kid sister runs it.
(POSIX compliant, X11R6)
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LynxOS |
A real-time UNIX-like system (runs on half a dozen architectures). (POSIX compliant, X11R5)
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Microport |
(Pure SVR4, X11)
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Mach 4
4.4 BSD Lite Server |
The Mach microkernel from Carnegie Mellon, runs on some of the
*BSD's, Linux, and the GNU HURD.
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Minix*
(free, limited license) |
Great for that 8088 with 640K RAM in your closet.
Runs on Intel, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari, SPARC.
Easy install. (V7, no X11 support)
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Minix-vmd
(free, limited license) |
Minix + virtual memory & X-Windows. (V7, X11, working on POSIX compliance)
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NetBSD (free) |
Supports many many different architectures. (from 386BSD, X11R6)
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NEXTSTEP |
The ever-hip NeXT has been bought by Apple but hopefully will live on, runs on SPARC, x86, PA-RISC, mk68k. (X11R5, BSD on Mach kernel)
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OpenBSD* (free) |
Runs on over a dozen hardware platforms. Very security conscious. My choice of
the *BSD's, but not as user-friendly as FreeBSD.
(originated from NetBSD, X11R6)
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Plan 9
(UNIX'ish, free trial) |
From AT&T, sounds neat.
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QNX
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Realtime UNIX-like OS based on a microkernel architecture.
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SCO
($19, limited license) |
$19 for UnixWare (SVR4.2) or OpenServer (X11) CD, complete system. (X11R5)
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Solaris*
(free) |
Free for non-commercial use! 386 and up. (SVR5, X11R6)
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386BSD (free) |
The mother of the *BSD's, no longer supported. (from Berkeley Net/2 release)
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TSX
(sharware trial) |
An odd sounding UNIX system. A 2-user shareware version without networking support available to download.
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Xenix | The oldest Intel-based UNIX, from Microsoft. Dead ages ago. (SVR2) |
Xinu | What is this? |
In my "check this out" list:
http://world.std.com/~mikep/rtx-page.html RTX (Real-Time Operating System) Eurix (80?86) SVR3.2 (Germany) Generics UNIX (80386) SVR4.03 (Germany) PC-IX (IBM 8086)SV UHC (80x86) pure SVR4, X11, Motif http://www.modcomp.com/ http://www.realtime-info.be/encyc/market/rtos/rtos/rtos71.htm http://www.rtmx.com/ http://www.realtime-info.be/encyc/market/rtos/rtos/rtos102.htm http://www.realtime-info.be/encyc/market/rtos/rtos/rtos78.htm