In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself...
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VyOS, an open source fork of the Vyatta routing package Distributed operating system FRRouting Network Computer Operating System Network functions virtualization...
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known as /e/ OS and /e/OS, formerly Eelo) is a fork of LineageOS, an Android-based mobile operating system, and associated online services. /e/ is presented...
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resource fork is a fork of a file on Apple's classic Mac OS operating system that is used to store structured data. It is one of the two forks of a file...
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Haiku, originally OpenBeOS, is a free and open-source operating system for personal computers. It is a community-driven continuation of BeOS and aims to...
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Microsoft Windows (redirect from Windows operating system)
operating systems § Market share by category) Windows PE: A lightweight version of its Windows sibling, meant to operate as a live operating system,...
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Watch watchOS Apple TV tvOS Embedded operating systems bridgeOS Apple Vision Pro visionOS Embedded operating systems A/ROSE iPod software (unnamed embedded...
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University of Washington. Fork bombs operate both by consuming CPU time in the process of forking, and by saturating the operating system's process table. A basic...
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commercial operating system and integrated development environment for Lisp machines created by Symbolics. It is essentially a fork of an earlier operating system...
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really forks of them. This is a list of those that have been active since 2014, and their websites. FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended...
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Syllable Desktop (redirect from Syllable operating system)
based on Linux core. Syllable Desktop is a fork of AtheOS, a discontinued free and open source operating system that was discontinued. AtheOS was originally...
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DivestOS is a fork of LineageOS that aims to increase privacy and security. GrapheneOS is a privacy and security-focused mobile operating system for selected...
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Pop! OS (redirect from Pop! operating system)
GNOME desktop environment called COSMIC, an acronym for "Computer Operating System Main Interface Components" developed by System76. It features separate...
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Darwin is the core Unix-like operating system of macOS (previously OS X and Mac OS X), iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It...
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Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen...
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OS-level virtualization (redirect from Operating System-level Virtualization)
OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...
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A mobile operating system is an operating system used for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing...
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In a computer file system, a fork is a set of data associated with a file-system object. File systems without forks only allow a single set of data for...
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ChromeOS (redirect from Google Chrome Operating System)
controller was changed to be based on a Google maintained fork of Zephyr, a real time operating system. In March 2014, Google hosted a hacking contest aimed...
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The usage share of an operating system is the percentage of computers running that operating system (OS). These statistics are estimates as wide scale...
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The V operating system (sometimes written V-System) is a discontinued microkernel distributed operating system that was developed by faculty and students...
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Replicant is a free operating system (OS) based on the Android mobile platform that intends to replace all proprietary Android components with free-software...
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GNU (redirect from GNU operating system)
an operating system or can be used in parts with other operating systems. The use of the completed GNU tools led to the family of operating systems popularly...
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Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc. in a succession of two major series. In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known...
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August 2023. It is a fork of the Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux. Maya OS ships with an end point detection and protection system "Chakravyuh" to protect...
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term fork is derived from the POSIX standard for operating systems: the system call used so that a process generates a copy of itself is called fork()."...
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs (redirect from Brazil (operating system))
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system which originated from the Computing Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s...
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Classic Mac OS (redirect from Mac OS Classic (operating system))
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers...
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The Oberon System is a modular, single-user, single-process, multitasking operating system written in the programming language Oberon. It was originally...
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at Harvard University that sought to develop an extensible-kernel operating system based on NetBSD. The project is now inactive. There is also a current...
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