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| | Operating system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Operating systems are used on most, but not all, computer systems. | | | Research and development of new kinds of operating systems is an active subfield of computer science. | | | Commercially-supplied operating systems are present on virtually all modern devices described as computers, from personal computers to mainframes, as well as mobile computers such as PDAs and mobile phones. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
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| | Operating system advocacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Operating system advocacy is the practice of attempting to increase the awareness and improve the perception of a computer operating system. | | | Operating system advocacy can be compared to advocacy in other fields, particularly editor wars but also advocacy of programming languages and video game consoles. | | | Operating system advocacy discussions, on Usenet and elsewhere, have spawned a variety of jargon describing commonly seen behaviour, including "MicroDroid" and "Amiga Persecution Complex". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_advocacy
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| | Operating System Functions |
| | The operating system is the core software component of your computer. | | | System crashes and instabilities - These can happen due to a software bug typically in the operating system, although computer programs being run on the operating system can make the system more unstable or may even crash the system by themselves. | | | As mentioned previously, an operating system is a computer program. |
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http://www.comptechdoc.org/basic/basictut/osintro.html
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| | Computer Operating Systems |
| | Without a computer Operating System, a computer would be useless. | | | An Operating System, or OS, is a software program that enables the computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software. | | | As computers have progressed and developed so have the types of operating systems. |
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http://www.computerhope.com/os.htm
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| | Howstuffworks "How Operating Systems Work" |
| | The operating system (OS) is the first thing loaded onto the computer -- without the operating system, a computer is useless. | | | The purpose of an operating system is to organize and control hardware and software so that the device it lives in behaves in a flexible but predictable way. | | | For a desktop computer user, this means you can add a new security update, system patch, new application or often even a new operating system entirely rather than junk your computer and start again with a new one when you need to make a change. |
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/operating-system.htm
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| | Define operating system - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: OS |
| | An operating system (sometimes abbreviated as "OS") is the program that, after being initially loaded into the computer by a boot program, manages all the other programs in a computer. | | | On computers that can provide parallel processing, an operating system can manage how to divide the program so that it runs on more than one processor at a time. | | | All major computer platforms (hardware and software) require and sometimes include an operating system. |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212714,00.html
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| | Server Operating Systems Technical Comparison |
| | Brief summaries of operating systems are located at: summaries of operating systems. | | | system components: a look at the specific components of a computer system. | | | Variations in the personnel creating, administering, and maintaining the computer system (the human factor) can play a significant factor in both quantifiable and anecdotal results. |
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http://www.osdata.com
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| | K42/Tornado Operating System |
| | K42 is a research operating system currently being developed to address performance and scalability issues of system software on large-scale, shared-memory, NUMA multiprocessor computers. | | | The K42/Tornado Operating System is closely tied with the K42 project at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. | | | Performance Analysis and Optimization of the Hurricane File System on the K42 Operating System, David Tam, M.A.Sc. |
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http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~tornado
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| | Debian -- The Universal Operating System |
| | Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. | | | An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. | | | Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux. |
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http://www.debian.org
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| | What is operating system? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | General-purpose operating systems, such as DOS and UNIX, are not real-time. | | | This page is for novice computer users and provides a short introduction to computers and basic functions of an operating system. | | | Every general-purpose computer must have an operating system to run other programs. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/o/operating_system.html
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| | Amazon.com: Operating System Concepts: Books: Abraham Silberschatz,Peter Baer Galvin,Greg Gagne |
| | An operating system is a program that manages the computer hardware. | | | While "Operating Systems" is not exactly the sexiest subject in Computer Science, it ought to be possible to make it interesting, for example by taking a historical or problem solving approach. | | | Also, there are appendices that analyze the design concepts of three older operating systems (the FreeBSD System, The Mach System and Windows 2000 System) that are published electronically on the net. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471694665?v=glance
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| | Linux and GNU - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
| | Some of our system components, the programming tools, became popular on their own among programmers, but we wrote many components that are not tools (2). | | | The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. | | | Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. |
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http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
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| | The Creation of the UNIX* Operating System |
| | UNIX* computer operating system from Bell Labs is still regarded as one of the most powerful, versatile, and flexible operating systems (OS) in the computer world. | | | The system also fostered a distinctive approach to software design -- solving a problem by interconnecting simpler tools, rather than creating large monolithic application programs. | | | Its development and evolution led to a new philosophy of computing, and it has been a never-ending source of both challenges and joy to programmers around the world. |
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http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix
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| | Review of Operating Systems |
| | OS/A65 is an insane (and functional project): a multitasking operating system for old CBM computers like the C64, with TCP/IP and all. | | | 2K (formerly known as SPINE) is a distributed, reflective, component-based, adaptable operating system being built by researchers at the Systems Software Research Group from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Systems and Communications Group from the Universidad Carlos III - Madrid. | | | The OS Faq site has a lot of interesting pointers to operating system projects, and answers a lot of questions on which OS programmers usually bump, covering topics such as filesystems, GUIs, device drivers, and existing OSes such as Linux or Windows NT. |
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http://tunes.org/Review/OSes.html
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| | Quotes about Operating Systems |
| | We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers. | | | In 1971 when I joined the staff of the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab, all of us who helped develop the operating system software, we called ourselves hackers. | | | The best way to approach the system is through a keypunch. |
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http://www.sysprog.net/quotos.html
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| | Technorati Tag: operating system |
| | Operating System Software Search our comprehensive B2B directory for Operating System Software. | | | Operating System at MSN Shopping Find great deals on a wide selection of computers. | | | A good introduction and review of Helix from September 2005. There is a newer version out now (as of March 2006) however much of the operational... |
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http://technorati.com/tag/operating+system
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| | Tornado Operating System |
| | Tornado is a new operating system we are developing for NUMAchine that addresses these issues using novel approaches, some of which were developed for our previous operating system Hurricane. | | | In the file system, each ``storage object'' implements a portion of a file structure or some simple file system policy. | | | We have successfully applied this approach to the Hurricane File System (HFS) implementation [Krieger94] and intend to use it in other parts of Tornado. |
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http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/tornado.html
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| | YOPER: Your Operating System |
| | The result of this cooperation between developers and end-users is one of the easiest to use, and most versatile operating systems available for today's computers. | | | Yoper is a high performance operating system which has been carefully optimized for PC's with either i686 or higher processor types. | | | It is based on the famous Linux kernel and is usable for home computers. |
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http://www.yoper.com
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| | Operating Systems - Home |
| | Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. | | | To make our work relevant, we build prototype system to evaluate our ideas and to prove their implemention into practical systems. | | | We are building a new OS (called Singularity), extending programming languages, and developing new techniques and tools for specifying and verifying program behavior. |
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http://research.microsoft.com/os
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| | CIS 307: Views, Components, and Architectures of Operating Systems |
| | An Operating System is a set of manual and automatic procedures that enable a group of people to use a computer installation efficiently. | | | We can think of an operating system as a Virtual Machine standing between our programs and the bare hardware, thus providing a more convenient, extended machine. | | | Here is a possible definition of an Operating System (paraphrased from Brinch Hansen): |
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http://www.cis.temple.edu/~ingargio/cis307/readings/intro.html
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| | OSNews.com |
| | According to an expert in Unix and Linux systems, the outcry is not without justification. | | | Developers of the popular Debian Linux distribution are ramping up coding efforts as they plan to release the next version of their operating system in December this year. | | | Con Zymaris has been working with Unix systems for nearly three decades and for the past 15 years has been running a consultancy on open source software implementation. |
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http://www.osnews.com
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| | Open Directory - Computers: Software: Operating Systems |
| | OSNews: Exploring the Future of Computing - Weblog style online magazine on operating systems and computing environments. | | | How Stuff Works: Operating Systems - Unbiased enlightening tutorial with impartial description of how OSs work, and many related links. | | | Convergence International - The non-Wintel user group, supporting Acorn, Amiga, Apple, ARM, Be, NCs, PowerPC, Psion, Unix and other alternative operating systems. |
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http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems
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| | Apple - Mac OS X |
| | Breakthrough search technology, stunning graphics and media, unparalleled connectivity, an intuitive user interface and a virtual toolbox chock full of cleverly integrated features — all atop a rock-solid UNIX foundation — give you the most innovative, stable and compatible desktop operating system on the planet. | | | From Walt Mossberg (“The best and most advanced personal computer operating system on the market.”) to David Pogue (“The classiest version of Mac OS X ever.”) to Mike Wendland (“One Cool Cat.”), reviewers heap praise on Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger. | | | When you see the Universal symbol on Mac applications, that means they’re made to run on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers. |
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http://www.apple.com/macosx
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| | GooOS, the Google Operating System (kottke.org) |
| | He argues that Google is building a huge computer with a custom operating system that everyone on earth can have an account on. | | | What will they do next with the world's biggest computer and most advanced operating system? | | | Who needs Windows when anyone can have free unlimited access to the world's fastest computer running the smartest operating system? |
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http://www.kottke.org/04/04/google-operating-system
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| | AROS: Amiga® Research Operating System |
| | After some time of testing, a new snapshot of the Amiga Research Operating System has been released, based on Feb. 7 nightly build. | | | First of all, AROS has finally got a new, faster and smarter file system: Michal Schulz has ported SFS to the Amiga Research Operating System, so opening and saving lots of files won't take ages anymore, but just few seconds. | | | If you're wondering what to do once you enter the net, you may chat with Nick Andrew's AiRcOS, the first IRC client for our operating system. |
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http://www.aros.org
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| | MIT Exokernel Operating System |
| | For more information on exokernels and related projects see the home pages of the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group at the MIT Lab for Computer Science. | | | The ExOS library provides a user-level and extensible implementation of an UNIX operating system. | | | We hope that by making the exopc distribution publicly available we can interest the 'net community at large in developing and using exokernels. |
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http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/exo.html
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| | IBM AIX 5L: UNIX operating system - an open UNIX solution |
| | AIX 5L Version 5.3 represents the latest advance in a long record of IBM operating system innovation and helps clients to accelerate their on demand business. | | | Independent software vendors recognize AIX 5L as a premier UNIX operating system. | | | The latest version of AIX 5L takes on demand computing to the next level. |
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http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix
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| | Operating Systems |
| | -- The Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system that allows users to access files and directories located on remote computers and treat those files and directories as if they were local. | | | -- by Thomas Narten at Duke U. High-level overview of the source code which can be used as companion to overcome the initial learning curve encountered when learning and using the system. | | | -- Information and support for Linux users and those interested in learning the Linux operating system |
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http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/OpSystems/os.html
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| | Solaris Enterprise System |
| | A $500-million investment produced the most advanced operating system ever built, with more than 600 new features in Solaris 10, such as DTrace, Predictive Self-Healing, Solaris Containers, and ZFS. | | | Solaris 10 is optimized for running Web services and includes Apache and Tomcat software to let you deploy services right away. | | | World's most advanced file system integrated into latest update of Solaris 10 |
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http://www.sun.com/software/solaris
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| | The Linux Home Page at Linux Online |
| | Click on the link below to find out more about the operating system that is causing a revolution in the world of computers. | | | This is your opportunity to support the Linux community by making a donation to the most popular Linux resource on the net! | | | Are you thinking about switching to Linux and want to learn how to use it? |
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http://www.linux.org
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| | The GNU Operating System |
| | The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX like operating system which is free software: the GNU system (GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX”; it is pronounced guh-noo, like canoe). | | | The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is the principal organizational sponsor of the GNU Project. | | | Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as “Linux”, they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems. |
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http://www.gnu.org
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| | Athene Operating System |
| | With boot times as fast as five seconds and advanced graphics technology not available in standard Linux distributions, Athene is the best low-cost alternative to Windows for your computer desktop. | | | Athene combines years of Rocklyte's R&D with the latest Linux technology to create one of the fastest operating systems available today. | | | Athene is a commercial operating system developed by Rocklyte Systems for use in the home and office. |
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http://www.rocklyte.com/athene
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| | OPERATING SYSTEM NAMES (last updated 2002-04-29) These are the Official System Names as they appear in the Domain Name System HINFO records and the NIC Host Table. | | | More have been added since the publication of RFC952. | | | A system name may be up to 40 characters taken from the set of uppercase letters, digits, and the three punctuation characters hyphen, period, and slash. |
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http://www.iana.org/assignments/operating-system-names
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| | The Cosmoe Operating System |
| | Cosmoe is a new user interface that runs on top of the Linux operating system (and soon others). | | | If you'd like to show your support and help accelerate Cosmoe development, please consider making a donation. |
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http://www.cosmoe.com
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| | Operating System |
| | An operating system (OS) is the system in your computer that runs all your stuff. | | | For most of us, Windows is our operating system. | | | If you're using a MAC, than the Mac OS (I think that's what they call it) is your operating system. |
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http://www.worldstart.com/tips/computer-terms/termoperatingsystem.htm
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| | The FreeBSD Project |
| | It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. | | | FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon 64, and EM64T), Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures. |
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http://www.freebsd.org
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| | Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter |
| | We do not search for any derogatory slang misspellings of any operating system name. | | | The Internet Operating System Counter (ios++) is an automated survey of which operating systems are in use on Internet web servers. | | | This operating system quality and approval metric is based on a periodic AltaVista search for each of several operating systems, directly followed by "sucks", "rules", or "rocks". |
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http://srom.zgp.org
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| | SPIN |
| | Brief overview of SPIN, including benchmarks and information on Modula-3. | | | As an extensible system, SPIN is an excellent platform for operating systems research. | | | The Web server application, as well as the file system interface, entire network protocol stack, and device infrastructure are all linked into the system after it boots. |
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http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/spin/www
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| | Operating System Concepts - 7th edition |
| | Welcome to the Web Page supporting Operating System Concepts, Seventh Edition. | | | The mailman mailing list system provides many benefits such as an archive of postings, and subscription options such as digest or web only. | | | This new edition, published by by John Wiley & Sons, was released on December 1, 2004. |
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http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/os-book/os7
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| | The Amoeba Distributed Operating System |
| | This paper attempts to describe a distributed operating system called Amoeba, with special reference to its object-based design and use of capabilities. | | | The paper ends with a comparision between Amoeba and another distributed operating system, Sprite. | | | We also study its innovative Wide Area Network communication scheme. |
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http://www.cs.unc.edu/~sharma/professional/papers/amoeba/amoeba.html
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| | Free Operating System Zoo - OSNews.com |
| | The Free Operating System Zoo provides ready-to-run disk images of free operating systems for use in the qemu processor emulator. | | | Nice for new users who want to try out other operating systems without installing them. | | | Linked by Adam Scheinberg on 2006-01-28 13:24:38 UTC, submitted by ratatask |
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13470
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| | Solaris Operating System Certification |
| | The Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) is the foundation on which some of the world's leading companies are built. | | | Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris Operating System - Solaris 10 OS now available! | | | Sun Certified Network Administrator for the Solaris Operating System - Solaris 10 OS now available! |
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http://www.sun.com/training/certification/solaris
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| | Microsoft Windows Family Home Page |
| | Take advantage of these tips to improve your computer's performance, no matter which version of the Windows operating system you use. | | | Download the revised security update for Microsoft Windows, released April 25, 2006. | | | Get five cool tips that will save you time, change the way your desktop looks, or simply make you say, "I always wondered how to do that." |
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/default.mspx
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| | SourceForge.net: JOS - Java Operating System |
| | A free and open Java(tm) based Operating System (JOS). | | | This project hosts facilities for the JOS Project as a whole. | | | Provide feedback on this page Recently changed page Site Status |
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/jos
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| | OpenBSD |
| | The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. | | | Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. | | | Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 8 years! |
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http://www.openbsd.org
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| | Operating System Concepts |
| | Users of Applied Operating System Concepts please click here. | | | Welcome to the Web Pages supporting Operating System Concepts |
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http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/os-book
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| | Microsoft Windows Update |
| | Note: If you need to add a URL to the Web Sites list and the Add button is disabled, contact your system administrator. | | | Make sure the following URLs are listed in the Web Sites list box: |
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