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Windows Vista |
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington,...
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| x IBM |
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IBM AIX |
International Business Machines , abbreviated IBM, is a multinational computer, technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, Town of North Castle, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information technology...
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| x Linus Torvalds |
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Linus Benedict Torvalds (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈliːnɵs ˈtuːrvalds] ( listen); born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the...
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| x Computer Systems Research Group | Berkeley Software Distribution |
The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) was a research group at the University of California, Berkeley that was dedicated to enhancing AT&T; Unix operating system and funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Professor Bob Fabry of...
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| x Debian Project | Debian GNU/Linux | ||
| x Daniel Robbins | Gentoo Linux |
Daniel Robbins is a software developer best known as the founder and former chief architect of the Gentoo Linux project.
During his time as a system administrator at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque Robbins first came into contact with...
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| x Patrick Volkerding |
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Slackware |
Patrick Volkerding (born 20th October 1966) is the founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution. He is the "Slackware Benevolent Dictator for Life." Volkerding earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Minnesota State...
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| x Mark Shuttleworth |
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Ubuntu |
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist. Shuttleworth founded Canonical Ltd. and as of 2009, provides leadership for the Ubuntu operating system.
He currently...
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| x OpenBSD Project | OpenBSD | ||
| x Matthew Dillon | DragonFly BSD | ||
| x Berkeley Software Design, Inc | |||
| x William Jolitz | 386BSD |
William Frederick Jolitz (born February 22, 1957), commonly known as Bill Jolitz, is best known for developing the 386BSD operating system from 1989 to 1994 along with his wife Lynne Jolitz.
Jolitz received his BA in Computer Science from UC...
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| x Lynne Jolitz | 386BSD |
Lynne Greer Jolitz (born June 30, 1961) is an important figure in free software and founded many startups in Silicon Valley with her husband William.
Lynne Jolitz is probably most famous for her work in pioneering open source operating systems with...
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| x Miklós Vajna | Frugalware |
Miklￃﾳs Vajna is the founder of Frugalware, a general purpose linux distribution, designed for intermediate users based on Slackware.
From the Slackware-Red Hat Linux-Debian trio Miklￃﾳs was mostly pleased with Slackware, but that has some serious...
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| x Sony |
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PS2 Linux |
Sony Corporation (commonly referred to as Sony) (Japanese: ソニー株式会社, Sonī Kabushiki Kaisha) (TYO: 6758) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue...
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| x NeXT | NEXTSTEP |
Next, Inc. (later Next Computer, Inc. and Next Software, Inc. and stylized as NeXT) was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher...
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| x Sun Microsystems |
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Solaris Operating System |
Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) provides network computing infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software, storage, and services. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek...
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| x Digital Equipment Corporation |
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OS/8 |
Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the computer industry. It is often referred to within the computing industry as DEC (this acronym was frequently officially used by Digital itself, but the trademark was always...
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| x Compaq |
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Tru64 UNIX |
Compaq Computer Corporation was an American personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it merged with Hewlett-Packard...
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| x Hewlett-Packard |
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OpenVMS |
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly referred to as HP, is a consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA. HP is the largest technology company in the world and operates in nearly every country. HP...
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| x FreeBSD Project | FreeBSD | ||
| x Fabio Erculiani | SabayonLinux | ||
| x Novell |
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SUSE Linux |
Novell, Inc. is a global software and services company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company specializes in enterprise operating systems, such as SUSE Linux Enterprise and Novell NetWare; identity, security, and systems management solutions;...
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| x Thomas Schönhoff | Foresight Linux | ||
| x Mandriva |
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Mandriva Linux |
Mandriva S.A. is a publicly traded (symbol:MLMAN) Linux and open source software company with its headquarters in Paris, France and development center in Curitiba, Brazil. Mandriva, S.A. is the creator and maintainer of Mandriva Linux, describing...
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| x Klaus Knopper |
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Knoppix |
Klaus Knopper (born 1968 in Ingelheim) is a German electrical engineer and free software developer.
Knopper is the creator of Knoppix, a well-known live CD Linux distribution. He received his diploma in electrical engineering from the Kaiserslautern...
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| x Waren Woodford | MEPIS | ||
| x Bill Reynolds | PCLinuxOS |
Bill Reynolds, also known as "Texstar", is the creator of the PCLinuxOS Linux distribution. In an interview, Reynolds said he started PCLinuxOS "to provide an outlet for [his] crazy desire to package source code without having to deal with egos,...
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| x Tomas Matejicek | SLAX | ||
| x Jean-Philippe Guillemin | Zenwalk Linux |
Jean-Philippe Guillemin, also referred as "Hyperion", born June 6, 1972 in Nancy (France); is a French computer programmer and musician, best known as the creator and now project's coordinator of the Zenwalk Linux operating system.
Jean-Philippe...
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| x Robert S. Langer |
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Vector Linux |
Robert S. Langer (born August 29, 1948 in Albany, New York) an engineer and an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and maintains activity...
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| x Darrell Stavem | Vector Linux | ||
| x University of California, Berkeley |
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Berkeley Software Distribution |
The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, California, Berkeley, Cal-Berkeley, and UC Berkeley), is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated...
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| x Control Data Corporation |
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SCOPE |
Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc. (CRI). CDC was...
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| x UNIVAC |
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EXEC 8 |
UNIVAC is the name of a business unit and division of the Remington Rand company formed by the 1950 purchase of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, founded four years earlier by ENIAC inventors J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly and the...
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| x Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Cray Time Sharing System |
Los Alamos National Laboratory (or LANL; previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos...
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| x Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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Cray Time Sharing System |
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California is a scientific research laboratory founded by the University of California in 1952. It is primarily funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and managed and...
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| x Bell Labs |
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Unix |
Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T; Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is the research and development organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT...
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| x Wind River Systems |
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PSOS |
Wind River Systems, Inc. is a company providing embedded systems, development tools for embedded systems, middleware, and other types of software. The company was founded in Berkeley, California in 1981 by Jerry Fiddler and David Wilner. On June 4,...
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| x Alfred Chao | PSOS | ||
| x Technical Systems Consultants | FLEX |
Technical Systems Consultants (TSC) was a US software company.
Headquartered first in West Lafayette, Indiana (it was started by Don Kinzer and Dave Shirk, EE graduate students at Purdue University) and later (1980) moved to Chapel Hill, North...
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| x Canonical Ltd. |
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Kubuntu |
Canonical Ltd. is a private company founded (and funded) by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth for the promotion of free software projects. Canonical is registered in the Isle of Man and employs staff around the world, along with its main...
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| Ubuntu 10.04 | |||
| x Research In Motion |
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BlackBerry |
Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (TSX: RIM, NASDAQ: RIMM) is a Canadian wireless device company best known as the developer of the BlackBerry smartphone.
RIM is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and is a sponsor of RIM Park in the...
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| x Ken Thompson |
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Plan 9 |
Ken Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding of the Unix and Plan 9 operating systems. Most...
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| Multics | |||
| x Dennis Ritchie |
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Unix |
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (username: dmr, born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on C and other programming languages, and on operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing Award in...
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| Inferno | |||
| Plan 9 | |||
| x Fernando J. Corbató |
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CTSS |
Fernando José "Corby" Corbató (born July 1, 1926 in Oakland, California) is a prominent American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems.
Amongst many awards, he received the Turing Award in 1990...
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| x Butler Lampson |
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Berkeley Timesharing System |
Butler W. Lampson (born 1943) is a renowned computer scientist.
After graduating from the Lawrenceville School, Lampson received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard University in 1964, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer...
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| x Fred Brooks |
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OS/360 |
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. "It is a...
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| x Open Handset Alliance |
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Android |
The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a business alliance of 50 firms including Google, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung, LG, T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems to develop open standards for mobile devices.
The OHA was...
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| x Xandros Corporation |
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Xandros Desktop |
Xandros is both the name of a line of operating systems and Xandros Corporation, the company which creates them. Xandros Desktop is a Linux distribution. The name Xandros is derived from the X Window System and the Greek island of Andros. Founded in...
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| x Digital Cornerstone | Linspire |
Digital Cornerstone (formerly known as Lindows, Inc. (2001-2004) and Linspire, Inc. (2004-2008)) is a Linux and open source software company with its headquarters in San Diego, California. It has primarily targeted desktop computers with its...
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| x Steve Vickers | ZX Spectrum |
Steve Vickers is the author of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer ROM firmware. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Vickers graduated from King's College, Cambridge with a degree in mathematics, he then read a...
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| x Dick Hustvedt | VAX/VMS |
Richard (Dick) Irvin Hustvedt (born February 18, 1946 - April 15, 2008) is a renowned software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including the RSX-11, 782 ASMP and VMS (OpenVMS) systems of Digital Equipment Corporation....
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| x Xerox PARC |
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Pilot |
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.), formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology.
Founded in 1970 as a division of Xerox...
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| x Nokia |
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Symbian OS |
Nokia Corporation (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnɔkiɑ]) (OMX: NOK1V, NYSE: NOK, FWB: NOA3) is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki. Nokia is engaged...
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| x Google |
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Google Chrome OS |
Google
Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is an American public corporation,
specializing in Internet search and online advertising. It's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. ...
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| x Ken Sakamura | TRON Project |
Ken Sakamura (坂村 健, Sakamura Ken), born July 25, 1951 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese professor in Information science at the University of Tokyo. He is the creator of the real-time operating system architecture TRON.
In 2001, he shared the Takeda...
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| x Judd Vinet | Arch Linux |
Judd Vinet (born 1980 in British Columbia, Canada) is an open-source developer who currently resides in Victoria, British Columbia. He is the creator of the Arch Linux distribution, as well as some other small-time open source software projects.
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| x Aaron Griffin | Arch Linux | ||
| x Meiko Scientific | MeikOS |
Meiko Scientific Ltd. was a British supercomputer company based in Bristol, founded by members of the design team working on the INMOS transputer microprocessor.
In 1985, when INMOS management suggested the release of the transputer be delayed,...
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