Additional Resources

Important Bits

• Perforce - revision control that rocks.
  They've kindly provided us with a free license for our free project.
• Doug Lea's Malloc - used in our libc

Interesting Systems

• Plan 9 from Bell Labs
• VSTa

Related Projects

• ACM@UIUC's SigOps - it all started here
• JeffOS - Jeff Thompsons OS (borrowing some bits from BLT)
• JeffOS Article - Jeff's Article about his OS
• GuildOS - Presentation - Jeff's PowerPoint Slides
• Writing an Operating System for SPARC-Based Computers
• Review of Operating Systems - bunch of other OS projects (and a plug for BLT)
• OS Resource Center - lots of useful info here

Dead Trees - Useful Books

• The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
• Unix Internals : The New Frontiers
• Inside the Beos; Modern File System Design

People

• Brian Swetland - wrote the kernel and started this mess
• Sidney Cammeresi - vfs server, libdl, and many other things
• Paul Swanson - inspired us all and reappears from time to time
• Doug Armstrong - contributes to mailing list discussion
• Hans Van Slooten - keeps threatening to do an OpenBLT related project
• Anthony Tong - might rewrite our network stack some day
• Jeff Bush - ported the window_server from his own OS and has a gift for finding kernel bugs