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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According to David Gelernter, the desktop metaphor is obsolete.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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