Nice to see A/ROSE on there. You haven't been forgotten little fella! Such a cool idea that actually worked pretty well and simultaneously went next to nowhere.
Very impressive list.Though I would have liked a button to download a image of the whole thing, screenshotting it's kind of a pain even on a 4K display.
clicking Back to Homepage we land on a curious selection of lists and articles:
Who is "White"?
Decline of White Demographics
German Elections since 1871
What would the World look like if the Axis had won WW2?
EU of Regions after Right-Wing Takeover
This would be a fun dataset to run an interactive visualization on – I presume the author used some kind of relational data structure to generate the SVG; I wonder if they'd mind sharing it.
Great graph! Another one I like is this one by Eric Levenez: https://www.levenez.com/unix/. It's a little more detailed, as it includes specific releases and non-inheritance relationships, but it's only for Unix systems.
just think of how many years of effort many of those dots represent. and how OS development is such a small fraction of overall software development. and how much of that software just evaporated from the world because it was no longer useful.
feels sort of like monkeys at typewriters sometimes
True, but the same statement could be made about most software (including perhaps 95% of apps on Android and iOS app stores). Perhaps mobile apps provide some form of return on investment through mobile advertising, although it's probably not much.
Anyway, there are people that are perfectly willing to toil away on their labor of love because it's a hobby for them and they get some form of satisfaction from it all.
Interesting how the Linuxes were picked and split up. I understand the difficulty on where to draw the line on what Linux to add - so many out there.
But I'd expect to see NixOS on there - such a different way to interact with a (u|li)nix system, aside from GNU Guix System. I'd consider those more of an "Operating System" than say mandrake, which is on the list
This is amazing, but it would be even better if one could zoom in and out, and scroll left to right. On a 1080p display, I could not read some of the names because they were overlapping.
Minor, minor nitpick: I miss NIROS, the NIxdorf Realtime OS. I know little more about it than its name and that it was used on their line of Quattro machines, which I think were kind of minicomputers built around MIPS CPUs. There is another OS by Nixdorf listed, which I know nothing about, is that a different system?
Bad.Bad.Bad. According to this timeline Linux started before BSD/Free/NetBSD split. Not only this but is not even drawn as Minix clone. Minix itself isn't even related on this timeline to UNICS (or AT&T UNIX) whatsoever. UNICS isn't even close somewhere on this timeline to Multics(which is much lower).
Fun to look around the chart. Had forgotten of any link between OS/2 and NT, tho maybe not as clear directly connected, even though similar hires and since IBM and MS were working together you would think the conversation was shared.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 61.9 ms ] thread1. scrolling, I can't see the right side
2. collapsable hierarchies - i can't get a bird's-eye view for prolific parents
On a separate note, it's great, but could do with a way to search.
[1]https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline
[2]https://launchpad.net/gnuclad
feels sort of like monkeys at typewriters sometimes
Anyway, there are people that are perfectly willing to toil away on their labor of love because it's a hobby for them and they get some form of satisfaction from it all.
If lessons were learned, either what is good/useful/supportable or what not good/useful/supportable then it's not wasted work
Plan9 is long gone but still provided good ideas that Linux and other use to this day. I'm sure some ideas have been taken from BeOS etc etc
But I'd expect to see NixOS on there - such a different way to interact with a (u|li)nix system, aside from GNU Guix System. I'd consider those more of an "Operating System" than say mandrake, which is on the list
Minor, minor nitpick: I miss NIROS, the NIxdorf Realtime OS. I know little more about it than its name and that it was used on their line of Quattro machines, which I think were kind of minicomputers built around MIPS CPUs. There is another OS by Nixdorf listed, which I know nothing about, is that a different system?