An Operating system is a collection of programs that allow other programs to run on computer hardware.
Parts
- kernal
- File System
Operating Systems
BSD
A Unux Distribution licensed under the BSD Licence. While this is still an open source licence it does allow you to use the code without showing the modifed source code. Because of this BSD has been used in Apples OSX and some of the networking tools were used in Windows.
Minix
Minix was a simple unix designed for educational purposes. Linus originally built linux on top of minix as the creator wouldn't allow modifications or improvements to his source code.
- Microsoft Windows
- Unix
- BSD
- OSX
- Minix
See Also
- Linux Distributions
- Linux
- Gnu/Linux