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    An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs...
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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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    program at the core of a computer's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is also responsible for...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • operating system of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent open-source operating...
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  • 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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  • Sprite is an experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley by John Ousterhout's research group...
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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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  • of Microsoft written and published operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems, see Microsoft codenames. For another...
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  • Kylin (Chinese: 麒麟; pinyin: Qílín; Wade–Giles: Ch'i²-lin²) is an operating system developed by academics at the National University of Defense Technology...
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  • real-time operating systems (RTOSes) produced and marketed by Green Hills Software. INTEGRITY is POSIX-certified and intended for use in embedded systems of...
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    Zephyr (/ˈzɛf ər/) is a small real-time operating system (RTOS) for connected, resource-constrained and embedded devices (with an emphasis on microcontrollers)...
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  • network operating system (NOS) is a specialized operating system for a network device such as a router, switch or firewall. Historically operating systems with...
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  • computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems. 1951...
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    Redox is a Unix-like microkernel operating system written in the programming language Rust, which has a focus on safety, stability, and performance. Redox...
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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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    Computer operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the links needed to control...
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  • This is a list of real-time operating systems (RTOSs). This is an operating system in which the time taken to process an input stimulus is less than the...
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    Robot Operating System (ROS or ros) is an open-source robotics middleware suite. Although ROS is not an operating system (OS) but a set of software frameworks...
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    open-source capability-based operating system developed by Google. In contrast to Google's Linux-based operating systems such as ChromeOS and Android...
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  • A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time computing applications that processes data and events that have critically...
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  • computer) operating systems. The article "Usage share of operating systems" provides a broader, and more general, comparison of operating systems that includes...
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  • for Operating System Projects, is a teaching operating system designed to provide an environment for an introductory course in operating systems. By selectively...
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  • Secure operating system may refer to: Security-focused operating system Security-evaluated operating system, operating systems that have achieved certification...
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    An Embedded Operating System (EOS) is an operating system designed specifically for embedded computer systems. These systems aim to enhance functionality...
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    Gentoo-based Linux distribution. The original project was called Amnesia. The operating system was born when Amnesia was merged with Incognito. The Tor Project provided...
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  • appropriately used only for older generations of operating systems.[citation needed] Disk operating systems for mainframes, minicomputers, microprocessors...
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  • The version history of the Android mobile operating system began with the public release of its first beta on November 5, 2007. The first commercial version...
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