How do we work, and where?

• Research Methodology

• History and Genealogy of Operating Systems

Content License

• License for text and images

Contact

• Contact the DistrOSList Project

The Research UNIX Project

• Unix V1 (1^st Edition)
• Unix V2 (2^nd Edition)
• Unix V3 (3^rdEdition)
• Unix V4 (4^th Edition)
• Unix V5 (5^th Edition)

• Unix V6 (6^th Edition)
• Unix V7 (7^th Edition)
• Unix V8 (8^th Edition)
• Unix V9 (9^th Edition)
• Unix V10 (10^th Edition)

UNIX Systems from Bell Labs

• UNIX System III

• UNIX System V R1
• UNIX System V R2
• UNIX System V R3
• UNIX System V R4
• UNIX System V R5

SunOS & Solaris

• SunOS
• Solaris (Oracle Solaris)

Open-source systems based on Solaris

• OpenSolaris OS
• illumos
• OpenIndiana

Free/Libre BSD systems since 1993

• NetBSD
• OpenBSD
• MirBSD (MirOS BSD)

• FreeBSD
• DragonFly BSD
• TrueOS (PC-BSD ó PCBSD)
• GhostBSD

NeXSTEP

• NeXSTEP
• OPENSTEP for Mach
• Rhapsody
• Mach OS
• Darwin OS

Mac OS X

• Mac OS X Server
• Mac OS X
• OS X
• mac OS
• iOS (iPhone OS)
• *OS (* for watch, tv, iPad, audio, vision and bridge, by Apple, Inc.)

List of Operating Systems

• List of UNIX Systems

• List of BSD Systems
• List of OpenSolaris / illumos systems

Operating System Trees

• UNIX Family Tree (Research and Commercial)

• BSD Family Tree
• OpenSolaris / illumos Family Tree

Concepts of Environments

• Text-Based User Interface (TUI)
• Command-Line Interface (CLI)
• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Display Server (Window Graphics Server)
• X Windows System (X11)
• Wayland
• Mir (display server & wayland compositor)
• Quartz (window server)

• Desktop Environment
• Window Manager (for X11)
• Stacking/Floating Window Manager
• Tiling Window Manager
• Wayland Composition Window Manager
• Quartz Composition Manager (macOS)
• Display Manager
• Comparison of Desktop Environments
• Comparison of Window Managers
• Comparison of Composition Managers

Types of Software and Interfaces

• Free Software
• Open Source
• Upstream & Downstream
• Rolling Release
• Long-term support (LTS)

Types of Software and Interfaces

• Fork
• Spin (Edition)
• Respin - Spin-off - Remix - Flavor
• LiveCD - LiveDVD - LiveUSB - LiveDistro - LiveOS
• OS/Net (ON)
• illumos-gate
• Build - svn - SDK

GNU Licenses

• GNU GPL
• GNU LGPL
• GNU FDL
• GNU AGPL

Free and Open-Source Software Licenses

• BSD Licenses
• MIT Licenses
• ISC License
• CDDL License
• WTFPL Licenses

Finance and Reporting

• Annual Reports Full Transparency of Expenses
• Infrastructure Server and domain costs

• Digital Preservation Funds allocated for the acquisition of historical archives