The Operating system is the interface between the computer hardware and the software and the users. The operating system provides the common services by running the applications on the computer.
These operating systems need to be updated whenever the updates are available for the particular operating system. The available operating systems are Windows by Microsoft, Mac OS by Apple, i-OS for iPhones by Apple, Android OS for Android smartphones, also other computer or laptop OS are, Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu, Unix, and many more open-source OS. Sometimes while updating the Windows operating systems you might face some errors. This we have already seen in our previous article of Windows Stuck Update.
Many of the times it has been seen if you want to upgrade to the newer versions of the operating systems your device will not support the newer version. It’s a bit obvious as the new operating systems cannot be installed on the older versions due to compatibility issues. The newer operating systems are the faster and advanced with the technology, which can support many updated applications. So it better many times to change your device, i.e. desktops or laptops. Before buying the new devices or the laptops you can search for the best laptops available in the market online also.
For the input and output hardware functions and also the memory allocations, the operating system acts as the mediator between the computer programs and the computer hardware or we can say between the software and the hardware. The operating systems are found on many of the devices which include, computers (desktops or laptops), cellular phones, video game consoles, web servers, and supercomputers.
Types Of Operating Systems
- Single-tasking And Multi-tasking Operating Systems
The single-tasking operating system can run only the single application or the program on a computer at a time, while if you are using the multi-tasking operating systems then they can run multiple programs or the applications on the computers. The multi-tasking operating systems can be categorized as preemptive and co-operative operating systems. In the preemptive operating system, the CPU slices the time by providing the time slots to run the particular programs. In the co-operative operating systems each process needs to provide the time to the other process to run.
- Single User and Multi-User Operating Systems
The single-user operating system can run the multiple programs on it but it has no provision for distinguishing the users. While in the multi-user operating system the disk space can be allocated to multiple users.
- Distributed Operating System
In the distributed operating system it manages the group of the distinct networked computers and can connect them with the single computer.
- Templated Operating System
Creating the templates is meant as creating a single virtual machine image, which can be a guest operating system and can be saved for running on virtual machines. This technique is used in virtualization and cloud computing.
- Embedded Operating System
These operating systems are used in the embedded computers as they are designed for them. They are designed in such a way that they can be operated on small machines with very little autonomy. The design of the embedded operating systems is very efficient and compact.
- Real-Time Operating Systems
The operating which guarantees to process the events of data by the specific moment is the Real-Time Operating system. The real-time operating system can be both i.e. single-tasking or the multi-tasking operating system. When the real-time operating system operates as the multi-tasking operating system it uses the specific time scheduling algorithms so that the deterministic behavior can be achieved. These operating systems switch to the tasks according to the time priorities. While the time-sharing operating systems switch to the tasks on the clock interruptions.
- Library Operating System
The operating system where the services are provided in the form of libraries. The example can be the network services. Which configures and constructs the unikernel code.
Conclusion: As per the article heading I have prescribed the operating systems and it’s types. I hope you guys like this topic.