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Open Kernel Labs – Products

OKL4 Microvisor [http://okl4.org OKL4] is an open source system software platform for embedded systems that can be used as a hypervisor as well as a simple real-time operating system with memory protection. The OKL4 “microvisor” is based upon the L4 microkernel. OKL4 is a Type I Embedded Hypervisor and runs on single- and multi-core platforms [...]

Motorola ROKR E6 – Introduction

Motorola ROKR E6 (pronounced “”rocker””) is the third phone in Motorola’s ROKR range of multimedia phones. It was released in the China on November 14, 2006, and subsequently worldwide on December 4, 2006. The ROKR E6 is a direct descendant of the E680 and the MING, sharing the same Montavista Linux operating system, Intel XScale [...]

Disk cloning – Operating environment

A disk cloning program needs to be able to read even protected operating system files on the source disk, and must guarantee that the system is in a consistent state at the time of reading. It must also overwrite any operating system already present on the destination disk. To simplify these tasks, most disk cloning [...]

Btrfs – Introduction

Btrfs (B-tree file system, pronounced “”Butter F S””, “”B-tree F S””) is a GPL-licensed copy-on-write file system for Linux. Btrfs is intended to address the lack of pooling, snapshots, checksums and integral multi-device spanning in Linux file systems, these features being crucial as the use of Linux scales upward into larger storage configurations common in [...]

Verdana – Legal restrictions and prevalence

Released in 1996, Verdana was bundled with subsequent versions of the Windows operating system, as well as their Office and Internet Explorer software on both Windows and Mac OS. In addition, it was long available for download from Microsoft’s web site allowing it to be used by any system supporting TrueType fonts. The downloadable file [...]

ProvideX – Introduction

ProvideX is a computer language and development environment derived from Business Basic (a business oriented derivative of BASIC) in the mid-1980s. ProvideX is available on several operating systems (Unix/Linux/Windows/Mac OS X) and includes not only the programming language but also file system, presentation layer interface, and other components. The language is primarily designed for use [...]

Gentoo Linux – Introduction

Gentoo Linux ( ) is a computer operating system built on top of the Linux kernel and based on the Portage package management system. It is distributed as free and open source software, but includes some proprietary software packages. Unlike a conventional software distribution, the user compiles the source code locally according to their chosen [...]

Prelink – Introduction

prelink is a free program written by Jakub Jelínek of Red Hat for POSIX-compliant operating systems, principally Linux (because it modifies ELF executables). It is intended to speed up a system by reducing the time a program needs to begin. Actual results have been mixed, but it seems to aid systems with a large number [...]

NX-OS – Introduction

NX-OS is a data center class operating system by Cisco designed with modularity, resiliency, and serviceability at its foundation. NX-OS was previously known as SAN-OS. SAN-OS was only intended for the MDS product line of storage switches. It is based on MontaVista Software embedded Linux. It is self-healing, flexible, scalable, available, serviceable, and manageable. It [...]

Nokia Nseries – Operating Systems

The first Nseries device, the N90i, utilised the older Symbian OS 8.1 mobile operating system, as did the N70. Subsequently Nokia switched to using SymbianOS 9 for all later Nseries devices (except the N72, which was based on the N70). Newer Nseries devices incorporate newer revisions of SymbianOS 9 that include Feature Packs. The Nokia [...]

SYDI – SYDI Components

As of version 2.0, SYDI consists of four separate script packages, each of which target specific operating systems or applications. SYDI-Server SYDI-Server is the most developed script within the SYDI project. It is used to document Windows servers or clients. It collects information with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and by reading the Windows registry. SYDI-Server [...]

GNU Project – Introduction

GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project, announced on September 27, 1983, by Richard Stallman at MIT. It initiated the GNU operating system, software development for which began in January 1984. The founding goal of the project was, in the words of its initial announcement, to develop “”a sufficient body of free software [...]

Yellowdog Updater, Modified – Introduction

Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) is an open-source command-line package-management utility for RPM-compatible Linux operating systems and has been released under the GNU General Public License. It was developed by Seth Vidal and a group of volunteer programmers. Though yum has a command-line interface, several other tools provide graphical user interfaces to yum functionality. As a [...]

Linux distribution – Introduction

Linux distribution (also called GNU/Linux distribution by some vendors and users) is a member of the family of Unix-like software distributions built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions (often called ”distros” for short) consist of a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players and database applications. The operating [...]









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