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	GNUstep Project URL: http://www.gnustep.org/ ODP description: A project devoted to providing an object oriented application framework to developers. Page title: GNUstep.org
	PublicOS URL: http://publicos.freehosting.net/ ODP description: Plugin-based architecture: if a feature is unneeded, don't download it or waste storage; Linux and Windows compatible; GUI driven, fully skinable to alter its look; includes voice recognition, interactive help system. [Open Source]
	AtomsNet URL: http://atoms.sourceforge.net/ ODP description: Modular object-oriented application to index files across networks. Has plug-in type data retrieval system, webserver, peer-to-peer connections for network-wide information gathering, retrieval; has features of OSs, database management systems, distributed networking. Open Source, GPL.
	JX Ltd. URL: http://www.jxos.org/ ODP description: Makes JX OS: set of Java components executes on core doing system initialization, CPU context switching, low-level domain management; code organized as components loaded into domains, verified, translated to native code; protection based on type safety of intermediate (byte)code. Open Source. Page title: Overview
	Odiseo Desktop URL: http://www.geocities.com/innigo.geo/ ODP description: Multitasking environment, written in Java, for all Java programs, can execute many Java applications in unique virtual machine. Descriptions, screenshots, downloads. [Open Source, GPL] Page title: :: Odiseo Desktop :: Page description: Odiseo Desktop is a free java desktop environment.
	x-kernel URL: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/xkernel/ ODP description: Object-based framework to implement network protocols; defines an interface that protocols use to invoke operations on one another (i.e., to send messages to and receive messages from adjacent protocols) and a set of libraries to manipulate messages, participant addresses, events, associative memory tables (maps), threads.
	JNode URL: http://www.jnode.org/ ODP description: Goals: all Java OS, flat memory model, for personal use, simple to use and install, any Java applications to run on it fast and safe. Descriptions, documents, screenshots, downloads. Open Source, LGPL. Page title: JNode.org \|
	O3ONE URL: http://www.o3one.org/ ODP description: Object-oriented OS uses best parts of VMS, Unix, Windows NT. Almost everything in kernel is an object (threads, processes, devices, files, event flags, more) to which one can assign logical names. [Open Source] Page title: O3ONE - The Object Oriented OS
	The Evolution of OS Design URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/237/ ODP description: Object Operating System, OOS, pronounced ooze; goal: create new OS architecture, which uses filesystem to do many jobs usually done via various means. Design philosophy inspired by Unix, Plan 9, but does many things uniquely, trades compatibility for simplicity. [Freshmeat] Page title: freshmeat.net: Editorials - The Evolution of OS Design
	GO! URL: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jamm/research/go/overview.html ODP description: Component-based OS, runs natively on i80386+ based PCs. Has novel protection mechanism allowing more OS decomposition and high performance: protection overheads almost 1,000 times less than normal OSs. [Open Source, GPL] Page title: GO! :: OVERVIEW
	leJOS URL: http://lejos.sourceforge.net/ ODP description: Tiny Java OS for Lego RCX brick. Like its predecessor TinyVM, has tiny Java runtime, under 32K; works as replacement firmware for Lego; Hitachi H8300 processor. To be ported to more small devices. [Open Source, Mozilla] Page title: LeJOS, Java for Lego Mindstorms, LeJOS, Java for Lego Mindstorms Page description: leJOS is a Java based replacement firmware for the Lego Mindstorms RCX microcontroller and NXJ is a Java based replacement firmware for the Lego Mindstorms NXT microcontroller
	RCOSjava URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rcosjava/ ODP description: Tool designed to teach inner workings of operating systems: simple animated simulated OS and hardware coded in Java. RCOS successor. Page title: SourceForge.net: RCOSjava Page description: The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications
	Unununium OS URL: http://unununium.org/ ODP description: Development project with the goal of creating a highly componentized graphical real-time operating system without the need of a kernel. It is written in the Python programming language.
	Trinary URL: http://www.mithrill.org/ ODP description: Modern object-orientated microkernel, focus: flexibility and functionality, instead of speed and compatibility. Coded in C. Description, downloads. [Open Source, GPL] Page title: Lycos Webhosting Page description: Hosting en domeinnaam voor je professionele en persoonlijke website. Registreer je domein extensies, webhosting, e-mail adressen en PHP4 & MySQL bij Lycos Webhosting.
	JOS: Java Operating System URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jos/ ODP description: Collaborative undertaking by an international group of Java programmers and enthusiasts to create free Java OS. [Open Source] Page title: SourceForge.net: JOS - Java Operating System Page description: The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications
	Mungi URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~disy/Mungi/ ODP description: Orthogonally persistent, capability-based secure SASOS using L4 2nd generation microkernel. Goals: Prove SASOSs can run on normal hardware, be as secure as normal OSs; can be as efficient as, and are faster than, normal OSs in some important uses; can be pure SASOSs with all data (even system data) in one address space and no other IPC mechanism is supported by OS. POSIX emulating. [Open Source, GPL] Page title: Mungi - ERTOS - National ICT Australia Page description: description
	Sanos URL: http://www.jbox.dk/sanos/ ODP description: Minimal OS kernel for PC based server appliances. Lets you run java server applications without need to install host OS, only need normal Java HotSpot VM and Sanos. Description, documents, downloads, manifesto, links, contact. [Open Source, BSD] Page title: sanos
	Trion Development Portal URL: http://trion.sourceforge.net/ ODP description: Goal: create modern 32/64-bit OS, based on ideas of object-orientation, nanokernel; coded in C++, C and Assembly where needed. Open source, BSD.
	ROME URL: http://rome.sourceforge.net/ ODP description: Lightweight, very modular component-based, multitasking, embedded OS; developed, used for many research projects. Goal: manage fast data streams in multimedia environments; for speed and low overhead has zero copy architecture: passes pointer references to data instead of copying it. [Open Source, GPL] Page title: The ROME Operating System