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- Kernel [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Kernel (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Process [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thread [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deadlock [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scheduling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Memory management [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Virtual memory [r]: A concept in computer science whereby an operating system can use alternate (usually slower) data storage to impersonate real memory and run programs that ordinarily would not fit into real memory (RAM) [e]
- Input/Output [r]: Add brief definition or description
- File system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shell [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Shell (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Graphic user interface [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Distributed system [r]: Add brief definition or description
List of operating systems
- GNU/Linux [r]: An operating system consisting of the Linux kernel and GNU utilities. [e]
- Unix [r]: A computer operating system originally conceived and developed by a group of researchers as an unofficial project while they were working at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. [e]
- Mac OS X [r]: BSD-based, POSIX-compatible graphical Unix operating system made by Apple for use on Macintosh computers. [e]
- FreeBSD [r]: Add brief definition or description
- NetBSD [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MS DOS [r]: Add brief definition or description
- OS/2 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Microsoft
- Microsoft Windows [r]: The name of several families of closed source software operating systems, first released by Microsoft in 1985. [e]
- Windows 3 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Windows 95 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Windows 98 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Windows NT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Windows 2000 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Windows Me [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Windows XP [r]: several versions of an operating system developed by Microsoft and first released in 2001. [e]
- Windows Vista [r]: several versions of an operating system developed by Microsoft and first released in 2006. [e]
- Windows 7 [r]: several versions of an operating system developed by Microsoft and first released in 2009. [e]
