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Windows Vista |
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to...
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| x IBM |
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IBM AIX |
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it...
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| x Linus Torvalds |
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GNU/Linux |
Linus Benedict Torvalds (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈliːn.ɵs ˈtuːr.valds] ( listen); born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish American software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source...
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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 (US citizen, born in Montreal, Quebec) is a computer programmer and consultant best known as the founder and former chief architect of the Gentoo Linux project. In 2008, he launched the Funtoo project, a free GNU/Linux distribution...
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| x Patrick Volkerding |
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Slackware |
Patrick Volkerding (born October 20, 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, philanthropist, and space tourist who became the first South African in space. Shuttleworth founded Canonical Ltd. and as of 2010, provides leadership for the Ubuntu...
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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 a 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 386BSD 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 (ソニー株式会社, Sonī Kabushiki Gaisha) (TYO: 6758, NYSE: SNE), commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It ranked 73 on the 2011 list of Fortune Global...
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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 major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s. Also known as DEC and using the trademark DIGITAL, its PDP and VAX...
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| x Compaq | Tru64 UNIX |
Compaq Computer Corporation was a company founded in 1982, that developed, sold and supported computers and related products and services. Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the first company to legally reverse...
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| x Hewlett-Packard |
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OpenVMS |
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States that provides products, technologies, software, solutions and services to consumers,...
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| x FreeBSD Project | FreeBSD | ||
| x Fabio Erculiani | SabayonLinux | ||
| x Novell | SUSE Linux |
Novell, Inc. (pronounced /noʊˈvɛl/;) is a software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell...
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| x Thomas Schönhoff | Foresight Linux | ||
| x Mandriva | Mandriva Linux |
Mandriva S.A. is a publicly traded 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 itself as a ...
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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 operating system.
Jean-Philippe Guillemin...
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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) is an American engineer and the David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical...
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| x Darrell Stavem | Vector Linux | ||
| x University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley Software Distribution |
The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, or simply Cal) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The university occupies 1,232 acres (499 ha) on the eastern...
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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, Seymour Cray worked at CDC and developed a series of machines that were the fastest computers in the world by far. CDC only lost that title in the 1970s after Cray left...
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| x UNIVAC | 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 Project Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is one of two laboratories in the United States where classified work towards the design of nuclear...
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| x Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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Cray Time Sharing System |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) 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 subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone &...
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| x Wind River Systems | 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 United States 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,...
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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 to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu Linux and related projects. Canonical employs staff in more than 30 countries and...
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| Ubuntu 10.04 | |||
| Ubuntu 11.04 | |||
| Lubuntu | |||
| x Research In Motion |
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BlackBerry |
Research In Motion Limited (TSX: RIM, NASDAQ: RIMM) or RIM is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile and...
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| x Ken Thompson |
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Plan 9 |
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson is notable for his work with the B programming...
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| x Dennis Ritchie |
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Unix |
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (b. September 9, 1941; found dead October 12, 2011), was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era." He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix...
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| 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 December 23, 1943) is a renowned computer scientist.
After graduating from the Lawrenceville School (where in 2009 he was awarded the Aldo Leopold Award, also known as the Lawrenceville Medal, Lawrenceville's highest award to...
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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 IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly...
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| x Open Handset Alliance | Android |
The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a consortium of 84 firms to develop open standards for mobile devices. Member firms include Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile,...
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| x Xandros Corporation |
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Xandros Desktop |
Xandros is the name of both a line of operating systems and Xandros Corporation, the company which creates them. Xandros Desktop was a Linux distribution. The name Xandros is derived from the X Window System and the Greek island of Andros. The co...
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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 |
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 | RSX-11 |
Richard (Dick) Irvin Hustvedt (born February 18, 1946 - April 15, 2008) was a renowned software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including the RSX-11, and VMS (OpenVMS) systems of Digital Equipment Corporation. He also...
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| RBM-1 | |||
| CP-V | |||
| OpenVMS | |||
| x PARC | Pilot |
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated), formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems.
Founded in 1970...
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| x Nokia |
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MeeGo |
Nokia Corporation (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnɔkiɑ]) (OMX: NOK1V, NYSE: NOK, FWB: NOA3) is a multinational communications corporation headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Helsinki. Its principal products are mobile electronic...
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| x Google |
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Google Chrome OS |
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an American multinational corporation which provides Internet-related products and services, including Internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies. Advertising revenues from AdWords generate...
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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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