operating systems, a high percentage are standalone or do not have a web browser, which makes their usage share difficult to measure. Some operating systems...
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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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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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Android, iOS, and iPadOS are mobile operating systems, while Windows, macOS, and Linux are desktop operating systems. Linux distributions are dominant in...
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ChromeOS (redirect from Google Chrome Operating System)
an operating system designed and developed by Google. It is derived from the open-source ChromiumOS operating system and uses the Google Chrome web browser...
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Android is an operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen-based...
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terms "web desktop" and "webtop" are distinct from web operating system, a network operating system such as TinyOS or distributed operating system such...
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device. Mobile operating systems have had the most use of any operating system since 2017 (measured by web use). Mobile operating system milestones mirror...
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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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built-in Adobe Flash, and an auto-updater system, among other things) are closed-source. See Chromium (web browser) § Differences from Google Chrome and...
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of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including the Hercules...
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program at the core of a computer's operating system that always has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is also responsible for...
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webOS, also known as LG webOS, is a Linux kernel-based multitasking operating system for smart devices, such as smart TVs, that has also been used as a...
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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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Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs and now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova Holdings as free software under the MIT License...
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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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the system interface. The original XUI 1.0 is based on Android 5.0. Later releases are based on newer Android operating systems. The operating system includes...
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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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lightweight operating system designed primarily for browsing the Internet on netbooks and mobile Internet devices. Cloud was a minimal operating system with...
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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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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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Rhapsody is an operating system that was developed by Apple Computer after its purchase of NeXT in the late 1990s. It is the fifth major release of the...
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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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1996. Its charter was to build technologies for a next-generation operating system that would fulfill Bill Gates's vision of "information at your fingertips...
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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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same across operating systems and devices of users with the use of responsive web design, since it only needs to be compatible with web browsers which...
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A2 (formerly named Active Object System (AOS), and then Bluebottle) is a modular, object-oriented operating system with features including automatic garbage-collected...
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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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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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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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