mikro.linx.operating.systems 2/3
november 1998
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General
History
Research
Emulators
Unix et alii
Free Unix
Linux
Unixes' Standardization Efforts
Free OSs
Net OSs
Distributed OSs
Realtime OSs
Embedded Systems OSSs
Other OSs
Interfaces
Social
Copyleft/Open Source
Total World Domination (MS)
Newsgroups
Books
Another "Wizard of OS" (management and Organisation Studies) by Donncha Kavanagh (Department of Management and Marketing, University College, Cork, Ireland), presented at Actor Network and After, 10-11 July 1997, Centre for Social Theory and Technology (CSTT), Keele University, UK
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/stt/cstt2/ant/prog.htm
OS and the Law: Rechtsprechung - Betriebssystem-Entscheidung
http://www.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/~ge/ir/rsp_bs.htm
Interfaces/GUIs
Mikael Ericsson: Human-Computer Interaction Resources on the Net
http://informatix.ida.liu.se/~miker/hci/
Xerox: Beyond the WIMP paradigm (Windows, Icons, Menus, Point and click)
http://www.inxight.com/inprodvz.htm
European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces (ESPRIT's I3 projects)
http://www.i3net.org/i3projects/keywords.html
Open Group's X Window System
http://www.camb.opengroup.org/tech/desktop/x/
X Window System and OSF/Motif
http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.html
Xfree86, a free implementation of the X Window System that runs on Unix, Linux, and OS/2, traditionally focused on Intel x86 but now also supports other platforms.
http://www.xfree86.org
Window Maker, an X11 window manager supporting GNUstep
http://www.windowmaker.org/
Wine (Windows Emulator aka Wine Is Not an Emulator)
will allow UNIX users to run MS Windows applications on an x86 hardware platform
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/os/linux/answers/windows-emulation/wine-faq
Steven Johnson, Interface Culture (cultural studies approach)
http://www.theatlantic.com/atlweb/digicult/dc9710.htm
http://www.harperedge.com/books/interface_culture/index.htm
Rochelle Kleinberg: Designing the Social Interface
http://www.onlineoriginals.com/interfsy.html
Oliver Wrede: Mnemonics in Graphical User Interfaces
http://www.causa-formalis.de/texte/oliver/e_ow.htm
A Screamshot of the MacOS X's GUI
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/DBunker/ScreamShot.html
And the answers
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/DBunker/ScreamShotAnswer.html
Steve G.Steinberg: Lifestreams. According to David Gelernter, the desktop metaphor is obsolete. He wants to move beyond space - to time. (Wired 5.02 - Feb 1997)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams_pr.html
* Stephen Woolgar
Social
Umberto Eco explains why the Mac is Catholic and DOS is Protestant
http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/html/Xian/EcosEssay.html
McKenzie Wark explains how there are two kinds of theory in this world: Microsoft theory and open standards theory
http://www.factory.org/nettime/archive/0100.html
From Ronda & Michael Hauben's "Netizen's Netbook"
On the Early History and Impact of Unix (Ch. 9)
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x09
The Evolution of Usenet: The Poor Man's ARPANET (Ch. 2)
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x02
The Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet (Ch. 3)
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x03
The World of Usenet (Ch. 4)
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x04
Cybernetics, Time-sharing, Human-Computer Symbiosis and On-line Communities:
Creating a Supercommunity of On-lline Communities (on CTSS and Project MAC. Ch. 6)
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x06
Behind the Net: Computer Science and the Untold Story of the ARPANET (on RFCs. Ch. 7)
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x07
The Birth and Development of the ARPANET Ch. 8)
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x08
Sabine Helmers & Kai Seidler: Linux: Cooperative Software Development and
Internet
http://duplox.wz-berlin.de/docs/linux/
Building a Linux Based Internet Server For Your School
http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/howto.html
Sabine Helmers, Ute Hoffmann, Jeanette Hofmann: Standard Development as Techno-social Ordering. The Case of the Next Generation of the Internet Protocol
http://duplox.wz-berlin.de/docs/ipng/
Slavoj Zizek: Foreword to the net.edition of the Communist Manifesto (in Kroatian, with referrences to Billa Gatesa, hackera, Microsofta, Sam Spade, and, of course, Karl Marx)
http://www.arkzin.com/munist/manifesto/manifest0.htm
* Renata Salecl
* Jeannette: Das Religiöse im Comp
* Kittler
* Oswald Wiener
* Phil Agre
* Jospeh Weizenbaum
* Ute Hoffmann
Eric S. Raymond: The Cathedral and the Bazaar
http://sagan.earthspace.net/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
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