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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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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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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Android version history (redirect from List of Android operating system Versions)
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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