iPadOS are mobile operating systems, while Windows, macOS, and Linux are desktop operating systems. Linux distributions are dominant in the server and supercomputing...

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

light laptops, and the hybridization of the 2-in-1 PCs. Mobile operating systems combine features of a desktop computer operating system with other features...

computer 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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Wade–Giles: Ch'i²-lin²) is an operating system developed by academics at the National University of Defense Technology in the People's Republic of China...

Darwin is the core Unix-like operating system of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent...

Amnesia. The operating system was born when Amnesia was merged with Incognito. The Tor Project provided financial support for its development in the beginnings...

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

The Tri-Lab Operating System Stack (TOSS) is a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that was created to provide a software stack...

graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing...

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

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...

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

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

The THE multiprogramming system or THE OS was a computer operating system designed by a team led by Edsger W. Dijkstra, described in monographs in 1965-66...

(iRMX) is a real-time operating system designed for use with the Intel 8080 and 8086 family of processors. Intel developed iRMX in the 1970s and originally...

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

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

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...

Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS, /ˈdʒiːkoʊs/; originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor) is a family of operating systems oriented...

an operating system or can be used in parts with other operating systems. The use of the completed GNU tools led to the family of operating systems popularly...