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| Apple Inc. |
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Company | Mac OS |
Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of...
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| Computer Manufacturer/Brand | System Software 6 | |||
| Programming Language Designer | Mac OS 7 | |||
| Programming Language Developer | Mac OS 8 | |||
| Software Developer | Mac OS 9 | |||
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| Microsoft |
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Company | Windows XP |
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation, which rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Windows line of operating systems.
Throughout its...
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| Programming Language Designer | Windows NT | |||
| Employer | Windows Server 2003 | |||
| Software Developer | Windows 2000 | |||
| Computer Game Publisher | Microsoft Windows | |||
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| IBM |
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Company | PC-DOS |
International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue," , is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology...
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| Processor Manufacturer | OS/2 | |||
| Computer Manufacturer/Brand | Z/OS | |||
| Programming Language Developer | IBM AIX | |||
| Programming Language Designer | OS/400 | |||
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| Linus Torvalds |
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Person | Linux |
Linus Benedict Torvalds (; ; 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 chief architect of the Linux operating system, and now...
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| 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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| Debian Project | Debian GNU/Linux | |||
| Daniel Robbins | Person | 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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| Patrick Volkerding |
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Software Developer | Slackware |
Patrick Volkerding (born 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 University Moorhead...
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| Mark Shuttleworth |
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Person | Ubuntu |
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South Africa entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist and first Africa in space. Shuttleworth founded Canonical Ltd. and as of 2008, provides leadership for the Ubuntu Linux...
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| OpenBSD Project | Software Developer | OpenBSD | ||
| Matthew Dillon | Computer Scientist | DragonFly BSD | ||
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| William Jolitz | Person | 386BSD |
William Frederick (Bill) Jolitz (born 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 Berkeley.
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| Lynne Jolitz | Person | 386BSD |
Lynne Greer Jolitz 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 386BSD with her...
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| Miklós Vajna | Frugalware |
Miklós 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 Miklós was mostly pleased with Slackware, but that has some serious...
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| Sony |
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Company | PS2 Linux |
is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerate with revenue of US$88.7 billion (as of 2008). Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video,...
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| NeXT | Company | NEXTSTEP |
NeXT Computer, Inc. (later NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets. NeXT...
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| Sun Microsystems |
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Company | 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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| Digital Equipment Corporation |
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Company | Tru64 UNIX |
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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| Computer Manufacturer/Brand | OpenVMS | |||
| Software Developer | RSX-11 | |||
| Employer | VAX/VMS | |||
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| Compaq |
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Company | Tru64 UNIX |
Compaq Computer Corporation was an American personal computer company founded in 1982, and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard.
The company was formed by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto former Texas Instruments senior managers. The name ...
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| Hewlett-Packard |
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Company | Tru64 UNIX |
The Hewlett-Packard Company , commonly referred to as HP, is an information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. HP specializes in building personal computers, notebook computers, servers, printers,...
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| Employer | HP-UX | |||
| Software Developer | OpenVMS | |||
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| FreeBSD Project | Software Developer | FreeBSD | ||
| Fabio Erculiani | Person | SabayonLinux | ||
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| Novell |
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Company | SUSE Linux |
Novell Inc. is a global software corporation based in the United States specializing in enterprise operating systems such as SUSE Linux Enterprise and Novell NetWare; identity, security and systems management solutions; and collaboration solutions....
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| Thomas Schönhoff | Foresight Linux | |||
| Mandriva |
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Company | Mandriva Linux |
Mandriva S.A. is a publicly traded (symbol:MDKFF) 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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| Klaus Knopper |
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Person | Knoppix |
Klaus Knopper (b. 1968 in Ingelheim) is a German electrical engineer and Free Software developer.
Knopper is the creator of Knoppix and Gnoppix, both well-known live CD Linux distributions. He received his diploma in electrical engineering from...
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| Waren Woodford | MEPIS | |||
| Bill Reynolds | Software Developer | 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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| Tomas Matejicek | SLAX | |||
| Jean-Philippe Guillemin | Software Developer | Zenwalk Linux |
Jean-Philippe Guillemin, also known as "Hyperion" or "JP" (born June 06, 1972) is a French computer programmer best known as the creator and main contributor to the Zenwalk Linux operating system.
Jean-Philippe earned a degree in Electrical...
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| Robert S. Langer |
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Person | Vector Linux |
Robert S. Langer (born August 29, 1948 in Albany, New York) is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and maintains activity in the...
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| Darrell Stavem | Vector Linux | |||
| University of California, Berkeley |
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Educational Institution | Berkeley Software Distribution |
The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of...
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| Control Data Corporation | Company | SCOPE |
Control Data Corporation (CDC), was one of the pioneering supercomputer firms. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s to what was effectively a spinoff, after Seymour Cray left...
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| UNIVAC |
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Company | EXEC 8 |
UNIVAC serves as the catch-all name for the American manufacturers of the lines of mainframe computers by that name, which through mergers and acquisitions underwent numerous name changes. The company UNIVAC began as the business computer division...
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| Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Employer | Cray Time Sharing System |
Los Alamos National Laboratory (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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| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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Namesake | 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 funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and managed by Lawrence...
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| Bell Labs |
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Company | Unix |
Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T; Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is the research organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T;).
Bell...
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