An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs...

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen...

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...

Watch watchOS Apple TV tvOS Embedded operating systems bridgeOS Apple Vision Pro visionOS Embedded operating systems A/ROSE iPod software (unnamed embedded...

A mobile operating system is an operating system used for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing...

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...

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...

operating systems § Market share by category) Windows PE: A lightweight version of its Windows sibling, meant to operate as a live operating system,...

Operating System, also known as the Pick System or simply Pick, is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system...

of Microsoft written and published operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems, see Microsoft codenames. For another...

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...

Sprite is an experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley by John Ousterhout's research group...

Singularity is an experimental operating system developed by Microsoft Research between July 9, 2003, and February 7, 2015. It was designed as a high dependability...

Zephyr (/ˈzɛf ər/) is a small real-time operating system (RTOS) for connected, resource-constrained and embedded devices (with an emphasis on microcontrollers)...

computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems. 1951...

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...

Maya OS is an operating system developed by the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation in 2021 which was implemented after 15 August 2023...

open-source capability-based operating system developed by Google. In contrast to Google's Linux-based operating systems such as ChromeOS and Android...

real-time operating systems (RTOSes) produced and marketed by Green Hills Software. INTEGRITY is POSIX-certified and intended for use in embedded systems of...

A distributed operating system is system software over a collection of independent software, networked, communicating, and physically separate computational...

network operating system (NOS) is a specialized operating system for a network device such as a router, switch or firewall. Historically operating systems with...

The usage share of an operating system is the percentage of computers running that operating system (OS). These statistics are estimates as wide scale...

Unity Operating System (also known as Unified Operating System or UOS, Chinese: 统一操作系统) is a Linux distribution developed by UnionTech (Chinese: 统信软件,...

Modern Operating Systems is a book written by Andrew Tanenbaum, a version (which does not target implementation) of his book Operating Systems: Design...

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...

Redox is a Unix-like microkernel operating system written in the programming language Rust, which has a focus on safety, stability, and performance. Redox...

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...

Android-based operating system developed by Hong Kong mobile phone manufacturer Infinix Mobile, a subsidiary of Transsion Holdings. The operating system is developed...

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...

computer) operating systems. The article "Usage share of operating systems" provides a broader, and more general, comparison of operating systems that includes...