Types of Operating System for Computer

Computer is an electronic device that consists of software and hardware that interact to receive data from the user input, processes it according to user input and displays the result as an output. If you want to read about computer hardware you can click HERE.

Software is a device that connects between computer users with hardware. The software translates the computer users language into machine language (hardware), so that the hardware can respond according to instructions from the user. The software consists of Operating System and Application, but now I will write an article about Popular Operating System.

Operating system is software that functions to configure the computer to accept a variety of basic commands that are given as input.

Example of Computer Operating System:

• MS-DOS is a text-based operating system. It was developed by Microsoft. But now it is not used because Microsoft develop next operating system, it is windows

• Linux is an open source operating system.  Linux distribution are Ubuntu (Sabily, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, GoBuntu, Gnewsense, ubuntuCE), OpenSUSE, Fedora, BackTrack, Mandriva, Slackware, Debian, PCLinuxOS, Knoppix, Xandros, Sabayon, CentOS, Red Hat, ClearOS, Chrome OS, and Gentoo Linux

• Unix developed by AT&T's Bell Laboratories in the early 1970's,
  

• Free BSD is open source operating system. It is an advanced computer operating system used to power modern servers, desktops and embedded platforms.

• OS / 2 (Operating System/2) was developed bu IBM and Microsoft

• SUN OS was developed by Sun Microsystems

• Windows was developed by Microsoft. It is GUI-based operating system.

• Macintosh was developed by Apple. It is the first GUI-based operating system.

• Etc.

But until now, the most popular operating systems are Windows, Linux, and Macintosh or Apple.

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