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Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

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Re: Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

#11
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

Re: Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

#12

Awesome compilation but two rendering problems: 1. scrolling, I can't see the right side 2. collapsable hierarchies - i can't get a bird's-eye view for prolific parents

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.

Re: Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

#13

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.

Re: Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

#14

Awesome compilation but two rendering problems: 1. scrolling, I can't see the right side 2. collapsable hierarchies - i can't get a bird's-eye view for prolific parents

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.

I'd also like to know what tool is used to generate the diagram.

On a separate note, it's great, but could do with a way to search.

Re: Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

#16

Awesome compilation but two rendering problems: 1. scrolling, I can't see the right side 2. collapsable hierarchies - i can't get a bird's-eye view for prolific parents

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.

It looks very similar to this[1] which uses a fork of a deprecated project called gnuclad[2], which, like gnuplot, is not a GNU project.

[1]https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline

[2]https://launchpad.net/gnuclad

Re: Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

#17
post #6

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 Im sensing a bit of a theme here.

May well be a theme, but since the author is Jewish don't draw a long bow.

Re: Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

#20
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

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