Some commenly used operating system

Over the years, many operating system have been developed for different purpose. the most typically operating system in ordanary desktop computers and laptops are windows, linux and Mac os.

Let us learn about a few of them.

Windows

Microsoft widows is onr of the most popular operating system. it is commercial OS that uses windows to execute the program. it has a GUI interface. it is a multi user and multitasking OS. Windows is the most popular os for home PCs, and there are several versions of it such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7,8,8.1 and Windows 10. 

Linux and Unix

Linux is an OpenSource OS, which means that is program code is freely available to the program developersnds. thet is why thausands of programmers around the world have developed Linux, and it is cosiderd the most tested OS in the world. Linux has been largely influenced by the commercial Unix OS.

in addition to the servers, Linux is widely used in the home PCs. Many different versions of Linux are available for distribution, most of wich are free for the user (such as Ubuntu, Fedora and Mint.)

Mac OS X

Apple's Mac computers have their own operating system, OS X. The mac version of the Microsoft Office Suit can't be install on a windows computer. you can install other operating system on mac computers, but OS X operating system is only available for the computers made by Apple. Apple's lighter portable devices (ipad and iphones) use a light version of the same operating system iOS.

Android

Android is an operating system designed for phones and other mobile devices. it is not available for the the desktop computers, but for mobile devices, it is an extremely popular operating system. many different version of Android have been released till now.

BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solution)

BOSS is a GNU/Linux distribution developed by C-DAC, chennai, in order to benefit the usage of free/OpenSource software in India. BOSS GNU/Linux advanced server has unique features such as web server, proxy server, database server, mail server, network server etc. It has inhanced desktop environment integrated with Indian language support and other software. The version 6.0, was released in August 2015. The software has been cirtified by the Government of India for adoption and implementation on a national scale. The major advantage of BOSS is that more people would be able to access the software in their own local language to use the internet and other Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facilities.

Solaris

Solaris OS is a free Unix-based operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. The first version of sun OS was published in 1982. With the version 4.0, the new product name Solaris was introduced for SunOS, in 1988. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystem in january 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue the open Solaris distribution and the development model.

Symbian

Symbian OS was the most widely used smartphone operating system in the world till 2010, when it was overtaken by android. development of Symbian OS was discontinued in may 2014. it was primarily used by Nokia for its phones. it is designed for the specific requirement of 2.5G and 3G mobile phones. 

Fuchsia

Fuchsia is a capability-based operating system currently being developed by Google. It first became known to the public when the project appeared on GitHub in August 2016 without any official announcement. In contrast to prior Google-developed operating systems such as Chrome OS and Android, which are based on Linux kernels, Fuchsia is based on a new microkernel called "Zircon".