An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs... 102 KB (12,070 words) - 21:50, 9 April 2024 |
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen... 339 KB (29,047 words) - 19:51, 26 April 2024 |
A mobile operating system is an operating system used for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing... 182 KB (18,784 words) - 11:41, 20 April 2024 |
program at the core of a computer's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is also responsible for... 82 KB (10,162 words) - 20:54, 2 April 2024 |
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,... 99 KB (8,797 words) - 09:04, 28 April 2024 |
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... 27 KB (2,255 words) - 19:00, 1 April 2024 |
Sprite is an experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley by John Ousterhout's research group... 5 KB (578 words) - 14:42, 8 December 2022 |
Watch watchOS Apple TV tvOS Embedded operating systems bridgeOS Apple Vision Pro visionOS Embedded operating systems A/ROSE iPod software (unnamed embedded... 72 KB (8,243 words) - 00:10, 17 April 2024 |
This is a comparison of mobile operating systems. Only the latest versions are shown in the table below, even though older versions may still be marketed... 179 KB (8,904 words) - 08:15, 23 April 2024 |
Darwin is the core Unix operating system of macOS (previously OS X and Mac OS X), iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed... 41 KB (2,482 words) - 01:58, 2 April 2024 |
computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems. 1951... 67 KB (3,257 words) - 12:31, 22 April 2024 |
Two major families of Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc. In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known as the "Classic"... 25 KB (2,596 words) - 12:04, 19 March 2024 |
open-source capability-based operating system developed by Google. In contrast to Google's Linux-based operating systems such as ChromeOS and Android... 22 KB (1,917 words) - 14:08, 2 April 2024 |
of Microsoft written and published operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems, see Microsoft codenames. For another... 5 KB (121 words) - 06:29, 15 March 2024 |
network operating system (NOS) is a specialized operating system for a network device such as a router, switch or firewall. Historically operating systems with... 8 KB (918 words) - 03:28, 7 April 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,219 words) - 03:29, 3 April 2024 |
(which means green in Japanese) was the code name for a managed code operating system (OS) being developed by Microsoft with joint effort of Microsoft Research... 6 KB (451 words) - 13:34, 28 December 2023 |
Redox is a Unix-like microkernel operating system written in the programming language Rust, which has a focus on safety, stability, and performance. Redox... 6 KB (494 words) - 04:33, 8 December 2023 |
A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time computing applications that processes data and events that have critically... 17 KB (2,403 words) - 09:52, 12 April 2024 |
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... 35 KB (4,484 words) - 19:57, 26 April 2024 |
Modern Operating Systems is a book written by Andrew Tanenbaum, a version (which does not target implementation) of his book Operating Systems: Design... 2 KB (82 words) - 09:37, 25 September 2023 |
A distributed operating system is system software over a collection of independent software, networked, communicating, and physically separate computational... 44 KB (5,115 words) - 05:10, 16 April 2024 |
The usage share of an operating system is the percentage of computers that run that operating system (OS). These statistics are estimates as wide scale... 139 KB (10,777 words) - 07:44, 17 April 2024 |
appropriately used only for older generations of operating systems.[citation needed] Disk operating systems for mainframes, minicomputers, microprocessors... 11 KB (1,290 words) - 03:22, 3 April 2024 |
real-time operating systems (RTOSes) produced and marketed by Green Hills Software. INTEGRITY is POSIX-certified and intended for use in embedded systems of... 5 KB (307 words) - 20:26, 5 March 2024 |
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... 6 KB (507 words) - 14:09, 19 March 2024 |