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What precisely constitutes an OperatingSystem is a widely and wildly debated topic. Usually it’s considered to mean a [Kernel] and a minimal set of UserSpace applications to get the machine to [Boot] into a state capable of running user programs. It is commonly executed immediately after the BootStrap part of a PersonalComputer’s (not sure about mainframes, but probably the case for them as well) startup sequence.
-The most common variants of OperatingSystem~s
in general use are:
+The most common variants of operating systems
in general use are:
* There are still a few old [VAX]es and [Alpha]s out there running [VMS]
* The antiquated [MS-DOS] or its many clones such as [DR-DOS], [IBM]’s PC-DOS, and now [FreeDOS | http://www.freedos.org/]
* AppleCorporation’s classic [MacOS] (not [MacOSX])
* One of the many MicrosoftWindows versions (3.0 and derivatives: 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98S, ME (Millenium Edition); NT and derivatives: NT3.51, NT4, 2000, XP)
* A version of [BeOS]
-* An entire class unto themselves are the [UNIX] and [Unix]-like OperatingSystem~s
:
- * One of the many [Linux] variants such as RedHat
, DebianLinux
, Mandrake
, OpenCaldera
, etc
+* An entire class unto themselves are the [UNIX] and [Unix]-like operating systems
:
+ * One of the many [Linux] variants such as [Debian]
, [Mandriva]
, RedHat
, [Ubuntu]
, etc
* One of the four [BSD] versions, of which [FreeBSD], [NetBSD], and [OpenBSD] are [Free]
* [Darwin], the foundation of [MacOSX] by AppleCorporation
* [Linux]
* An original [UNIX], such as
