Operating Systems

Operating Systems

1. Managing Resources

   • Peripherals
     • USB
     • COM
     • Mouse
     • Monitors
     • Keyboard
     • Drivers
     • Printers
       • Spooling
         • A OS sends documents to the printer in a specific order with setting attached, this is done through a driver
     • Trackballs
   • Hardware
     • GPU
     • CPU
     • RAM
     • Sound Cards
     • NIC
   • Multitasking
     • By combining multiple instructions into a feed that is ran while the CPU is waiting for the other processes like secondary storage
   • Ram management

2. Examples

   • IOS
   • Android
   • Windows
   • Linux
     • Ubuntu
     • Kali
     • Xbuntu
     • Elemental
     • Gallium
     • Kubuntu
     • Arch
     • Debian
     • Manjaro
     • Gentoo
     • Void
     • PopOS
   • Unix
     • MacOSX

3. Tasks

   • Disk Defragmentation
     • HDDs only
     • Moves files together on a disk so accessing is faster
   • Customisation
   • Error messages
   • GUI
   • Task management
   • Security
   • Backing store