Well it i s kind of obvious, but i have gotten many questions from people on here before asking me what some people ment by OS..and so i explained it to them, and i thought i might be able to explain it to other people on here
OS aka Operating System
OS is short for Operating System.
An Operating System is the system in which a computer operates on. Basicly it manages all of the other processes/programs that you put on the computer..
As defines by google it is:
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The software that the rest of the software depends on to make the computer functional. On most PCs this is Windows or the Macintosh OS. Unix and Linux are other operating systems often found in scientific and technical environments.
A few examples of Operating Systems are
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows Me
Windows XP
Windows Home Edition
Windows Professional
all of those are made by Windows but there are also other ones like
Linux
Tiger
Panther
You see, without operating systems, our computers today will not run as smoothly as they do..we would have to manage EVERY process, and every program that we run...
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You see, without operating systems, our computers today will not run as smoothly as they do..we would have to manage EVERY process, and every program that we run...
...And considering that most computer users wouldn't understand anything about how a Computer works or how to program them or how an OS works, that would be an absolute nightmare.
An operating system is a special computer program that manages the relationship between application software, the wide variety of hardware that makes up a computer system, and the user of the system.
-- Windows CE(Mobile) -- MS DOS -- Windows 1.0 -- Windows 2.0 -- Windows 3.0 -- Windows 3.1 -- Windows NT -- Windows 95 -- Windows NT 4.0 -- Windows 98 -- Windows 2000 -- Windows Me -- Windows XP -- Windows XP Media Center Edition -- Windows 2003 -- Windows Vista
OS
The Operating System(OS) acts as the middleman between applications and hardware, with the help of of which programmers don't need to know the internals and complexity of the hardware they write codes for. Their programs just need to talk to the OS, which in turn talks to the hardware. To acheive this, the OS provides the programmers with an Application Program Interface(API), which lets them write programs that can communicate with the OS.
yup, those are also examples of operating systems made by microsoft and like i said up there "A few examples of Operating Systems are:" but what delivi gave you was pretty much a full list of all of the operating systems that microsoft has released...and also a longer summary of
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You see, without operating systems, our computers today will not run as smoothly as they do..we would have to manage EVERY process, and every program that we run...
And if you know whats good for your computer, and security of your data you'll use something other then Windows, or Make sure you fully up-to date with all windows patches, updates, service packs, have firewall and Anti-Virus.
Otherwise, expect spyware, adware, possible hacking, pop ups and just a total system melting down in a matter of days connecting to internet.
Microsoft released windows XP into two versions .Windows xp home and windows xp professional .It was readily apparent that the Pro version was the more feature packed !
And if you know whats good for your computer, and security of your data you'll use something other then Windows, or Make sure you fully up-to date with all windows patches, updates, service packs, have firewall and Anti-Virus.
Otherwise, expect spyware, adware, possible hacking, pop ups and just a total system melting down in a matter of days connecting to internet.
Keep your system with an Antivirus with latest virus definitions update , I prefer use Nod32..which is more reliable and faster than any other AV solutions in the market, i think !
If u have no internet connection to update your windows , download Auto-Patcher and install.It allow to user to update many system with one downloaded Auto Patcher utility
friends, i will tell you what is OS in a simpler form.An operating system is one which acts as an interface between the user and the computer and it is the soul of the computer, we can call the operating system as a larger program too. what happens when you switch on the computer is that the operating system gets loaded into the main memory that is what is known as the booting of the computer.
About three years ago I decided to learn how to use Linux and after a lot of posts on a forum I
tried Ubuntu Linux as it was recommended as a good first Linux distro. Ubuntu is not the easiest
Linux distro to use but with its unmatched forum community support it is one of the easiest to learn
to use. One of the problems with learning Linux is that a lot of users have an attitude that Linux
should be a free Windows knock off which it is not. Ubuntu is build on a Linix core or kernel and is
a different Open Source and free as in to use operating system. This brings us to t...
Linux is becoming such a craze nowadays that not even a single day passes without one or other
distribution releasing a new version. But why is it failing so miserably in the desktop arena. The
answer lies in three reasons. 1. The plethora of distributions -
Redhat,Debian,Ubuntu,Suse,Gentoo,Knoppix - everbody and his uncle is coming out with new ones. 2.
The lack of backward compatibility - I had Redhat 7.3 running. I upgraded to Redhat 9. Many
applications had to be recompiled. You ask my mom to recompile applications - She will throw out
Linux and take Windows anyday. ...
Help! has anyone ever heard of a hard drive deleting a Operating system? I have a old HP that I
had been playing with, trying to fix it up for a friend young son to mess around with. It had no
Operating system in it to start with. I had a old hard drive laying around that had windows 98 in
it which was perfect for the old HP due to memory and being just a 286. Well, I removed the old HD
and put in the one with the 98. Booted up great. even got on the net with it for a bit, then I had
to run out for a bit so I shut it down. When I got back, I turned it back on to in...
I have Windows 2000 with IE. I also have Fedora Core 2 (Linux) with Mozzila Newest Version. What do
you have?...
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I am new to the forums and im posting to get free hosting, and i would like to know what people like
to use on there computer Ive played with ubuntu, but a friend of mine said go straight to linux so i
wanted to hear a few suggestions about what he has considered do you think i should try linux?...
Recently I was customizing a computer for my neighbor's needs. All was going well giving her the
proper amount of RAM and hard drive space and all of the components she would need to run what she
needs to run, and then we got to the Choice of operating system. There's good news, All listed
as Windows Vista. I have never run windows vista before but i heard from a friend it is much more
advanced than Windows XP, so i got on the phone with the tech and asked if it would be possible to
get windows XP on it instead of Vista But i was told that Windows Vista is the ...
I thought I would start this topic to inform newbies to the linux world, or anyone else that is
careful before going and switching to an Operating System they have no prior experience in, and to
maybe sway some people on this forum to change to a free, community basd O.S based on the linux
kernel: GENTOO Here's my story: I am a student in the UK, and I recently received a laptop for
my birthday, although I was able to choose it...The fact is that I had a price limit, so I wanted to
spend as much as possible on the hardware and tried to avoid paying for software/os&...
I think Linux sweeping the world was a bit of a premature prediction (what everyone in relatively
intellectual circles was saying in the late 90's and very early 2000's). Microsoft with a
true oligopoly that has crushed the chances of any third party OS, like BeOS, one of the most
promising OSes of the 90's IMHO. Linux and Unix really need a serious internal structural revamp
(like the NT system does of course), perhaps even a change to a server based OS; I guess that would
sort of be a total rewrite of all the code though Copied from "Olorix" on http://fo...
It is made by brasilians, and it's obvious if you go onto the site of the project - it's
not in english, at all... But about the system. It's based on a Linux kernel, and has teh
capability to run Windows appliacations. So one could say 'stable and with many software that
most use'. For example the highest version can run Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer,
Access, Visio, Photoshop, Flash, Diablo II, Half-Life, Lotus Notes, Winamp, WinZip, and many
more! I wrote highest, because Freedows is not so free, as it looks... There is a free ve...
So what do you think windows long horn is going to be like? its true that there are beta copies out
on the net but i don't want to take a chance. also when it comes out i will wait a while before
geting it. Let others test it and if there are problems with it i stick with my old windows....
A new OS
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A few months ago, while i was visiting some harware hackers store, I noticed they got a new OS, call
Microsoft Longhorn XP, and it actually worked as an add on to microsoft window XP, It has a kool
design though, But I am not sure, as microsoft did not release anything officially about a new
windows called so....
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