The modern OS is a complex structure comprised of millions of lines of code. Not all information is released, and is this core components, or everything including additional apps that have been included? Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) ~ 84 Million Lines of Code Windows Vista (2009) ~50 Million Lines of Code Debian 7.0 (2012)…
Book chapter notes: The operating system (OS) is the software that runs on the bare hardware of a computer and provides essential support for users to develop and use applications in the most efficient and safe manner. The OS will also serve as an abstraction layer for the user/applications to interact with hardware. The OS can serve…
In part 1 of Using an OS, we looked at user management, basic security, and file explorer. While Windows has made it easier to store files logically, it is still up to the user. Too often I’ve seen people with hundreds of files on their desktop. Often there, just “temporarily” until they no longer need…
Before we dive into studying all about the OS, we want to do a quick dive into an OS, so we can see some of the topics we’ll be covering. In doing so, you might learn a little more about one of the most over looked applications that everyone has to use. Previously, we looked…
At the highest level, the operating system (OS) is a piece of software that is there to manage all of the software and hardware of the computer. It is not generally considered to be a single program, but a series of programs and utilities that can make this happen. Most of the time, in a…
Currently there are only about 5 different versions of Operating Systems, with several sub-versions. They are: Windows MacOS iOS Android Unix/Linux Now, technically Unix/Linux are different, and there are variations of these, but fundamentally at a high level they are the same. There are some others out there, but they are rare and often on…
