Unix
UNIX © is the worldwide Single UNIX Specification for OSes, integrating X/Open Company's XPG4, IEEE's POSIX Standards and ISO C language.Unix-like is used also to refer to a large family of OSes inspired from the original Unix from Bell Labs (Unix histories).
- BSD - The BSD family used to be the reference for Unix-like OSes
- DragonFlyBSD - A Unix-like OS of the BSD family
- FreeBSD - FreeBSD (a successor of 386BSD) is a Unix-like OS, mostly for the Intel? and Alpha platforms and is most up-to-date among BSDs regarding device drivers
- GNUStep - A Unix-like OS, a project to implement a free clone of NeXTStep?
- HURD - The GNU HURD is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix OS kernel
- Linux - Linux is a free UNIX™ compliant OS implementation written by Linus Torvalds and lots of people on the Internet
- Lites - Lites is a Unix-like OS of the BSD family as a "singleserver" over the Mach microkernel
- Mach - Mach is a free microkernel upon which many experimental OSes are built
- MachTen - MachTen is a Unix-like OS, a commercial version of 4
- Minix - Minix is Andy Tanenbaum's famous Unix-like educational OS in 2 versions:
- MkLinux - MkLinux is a project begun by the OSF Research Institute (now Silicomp RI) and Apple Computer to port Linux, a freely distributed UNIX-like operating system, to a variety of Power Macintosh platforms running on top of OSF Research Institute's implementation of the Mach microkernel
- NetBSD - NetBSD is a Unix-like OS of the BSD family which focuses on portability and networking and supports tens of platforms
- OpenBSD - OpenBSD is a Unix-like OS of the BSD family, has split from NetBSD, and focuses on stability and security
- THix - A deceased project of a Unix OS implementation written from scratch for the purpose of learning
- TrustedBSD - A Unix-like OS of the BSD family which provides a set of trusted operating system extensions to the FreeBSD operating system, targeting the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC)
Pages in this topic: BSD DragonFlyBSD FreeBSD GNUStep HURD Linux Lites Mach MachTen Minix MkLinux NetBSD OpenBSD THix TrustedBSD
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