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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

hobbyist operating system is one of the more involved and technical options for a computer hobbyist. The definition of a hobby operating system can sometimes...

The Oberon System is a modular, single-user, single-process, multitasking operating system written in the programming language Oberon. It was originally...

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...