A lightweight kernel (LWK) operating system is one used in a large computer with many processor cores, termed a parallel computer. A massively parallel...
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later DOS/VS and DOS/VSE) operating system for System/360 and System/370 IBM mainframes TI-RTOS Kernel – Real-time operating system for TI's embedded devices...
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NetBSD (redirect from NetBSD kernel)
operating systems List of BSD operating systems Lumina (desktop environment) Comparison of operating systems Comparison of operating system kernels "Announcing...
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processors use a custom lightweight kernel operating system named Catamount, which was based on the operating system of ASCI Red called "Cougar". A userspace...
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has been included in many operating system distributions, many of which are called Linux. One such Linux kernel operating system is Android which is used...
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TempleOS (redirect from J Operating System)
TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, LoseThos, and SparrowOS) is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system (OS) designed to be the Third Temple...
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support for running full-featured operating systems. "Lightweight virtual machines for distributed and networked systems". Developer's page. University of...
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usually run different operating systems on different nodes, e.g., using a small and efficient lightweight kernel such as Compute Node Kernel (CNK) or Compute...
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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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configuration tools. The true descendant of the early operating systems is what is now called the "kernel". In technical and development circles the old restricted...
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the operating system, including the possibility of it replacing Android. LiteOS is a discontinued lightweight open source real-time operating system which...
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HarmonyOS NEXT (redirect from HarmonyOS kernel)
a single framework as kernel mode. The operating system shares lineage with the lightweight LiteOS real-time operating system for resource-constrained...
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Computer Science and Citrix Systems. Nemesis was conceived with multimedia uses in mind. It was designed with a small lightweight kernel, using shared libraries...
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BlackBerry 10 (redirect from BBX (Operating system))
BlackBerry 10 (BB10) is a proprietary mobile operating system for the BlackBerry line of smartphones, both developed by BlackBerry Limited (formerly known...
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Light-weight process (redirect from Lightweight process)
can have some performance benefits. In some operating systems, there is no separate LWP layer between kernel threads and user threads. This means that user...
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QNX (redirect from QNX kernel)
the operating system kernel in the form of a number of small tasks, named Resource Managers. This differs from the more traditional monolithic kernel, in...
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Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (ELKS), formerly known as Linux-8086, is a Linux-like operating system kernel. It is a subset of the Linux kernel, intended for...
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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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ASCI Red (section Operating system)
4 kernel was ported to the system and a custom CNIC driver was written, but the heavy weight OS did not perform as well as the Cougar lightweight kernel...
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BlueOS (category Embedded operating systems)
is independent of the Android operating system used on Vivo smartphones. The operating system is intended for lightweight IoT devices and Wearables. It's...
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2008 Android 1.0 was released, based on the linux kernel. Android, a Linux-kernel-based operating system acquired and extended by Google and introduced in...
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Porteus (formerly Slax Remix) is a portable operating system based on Slackware. It does not require installation and can be run from fixed and removable...
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Unikernel (category Operating system kernels)
kernel IncludeOS "Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System". Retrieved 31 August 2015. Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (2008). Modern Operating Systems...
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operating system's kernel. User space usually refers to the various programs and libraries that the operating system uses to interact with the kernel:...
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(I/O Node Kernel) operating system, based on a modified Linux kernel. Catamount (operating system) Compute Node Linux INK (operating system) Rocks Cluster...
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Oracle Solaris (redirect from Solaris operating system)
source code of the Solaris kernel, effectively turning Solaris version 11 back into a closed-source proprietary operating system. Following that, OpenSolaris...
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project in building an experimental microkernel-based object-oriented operating system (OS) developed at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Using technology...
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Thread (computing) (redirect from Kernel thread)
x86). A kernel thread is a lightweight unit of kernel scheduling. At least one kernel thread exists within each process. If multiple kernel threads exist...
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GNU variants (category Free software operating systems)
distros for short[vague]) are operating systems based upon the GNU operating system (the Hurd kernel, the GNU C library, system libraries and application...
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HarmonyOS (redirect from Hongmeng (operating system))
has a microkernel design with a single framework: the operating system selects suitable kernels from the abstraction layer in the case of devices that...
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