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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent open-source operating...

A disk operating system (DOS) is a computer operating system that provides storage access limited to disk hardware (such as a floppy, hard drive and optical)[disputed...

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...

An operating system shell is a computer program that provides relatively broad and direct access to the system on which it runs. The term shell refers...

A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time computing applications that processes data and events that have critically...

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...

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...

of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including the Hercules...

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

Chrome OS, is an operating system designed and developed by Google. It is derived from the open-source ChromiumOS operating system and uses the Google...

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...

Redox is a Unix-like operating system for x86 computers, based on a microkernel design. It is community-developed, released as free and open-source software...

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...

Google TV was a smart TV operating system from Google co-developed by Intel, Sony and Logitech. It launched in October 2010 with official devices initially...

VSEn (Virtual Storage Extended) is an operating system for IBM mainframe computers, the latest one in the DOS/360 lineage, which originated in 1965. It...

Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz and James Peterson is a classic textbook on operating systems. It is often called the "dinosaur book"...

An embedded operating system (EOS) is an operating system designed specifically for embedded computer systems. These systems aim to enhance functionality...