Operating systems Vankov Roman Group 22 Operating

Operating systems Vankov Roman, Group 22

Operating system • Operating system — the complex of programs providing control of hardware of the computer, organizing work with files and implementation of the applied programs, carrying-out input and output of data.

Popular operating systems • Today, the most well-known operating systems are Microsoft Windows family of operating systems and UNIX-like systems.

Microsoft Windows operating systems • MS Windows — family of operating systems of the Microsoft company. The head of Microsoft corporation – Bill Gates. • Since 1995 of Windows — the most popular operating system in the market of personal computers. By 2005 th year of Microsoft Windows it was established more than for 89% of personal computers.

Microsoft Windows operating systems • There are following Microsoft Windows versions: • • • • • • • 1. Windows 1. 0 (1985) 2. Windows 2. 0 (1987) 3. Windows 3. 0 (1990) 4. Windows 3. 1 (1992) 5. Windows For Workgroups 3. 1 (1992) 6. Windows NT 3. 1 (1993) 7. Windows NT 3. 5 (1994) 8. Windows NT 3. 51 (1995) 9. Windows 95 (1995) 10. Windows NT 4. 0 (1996) 11. Windows 98 (1998) 12. Windows 98 SE (1999) 13. Windows 2000 (2000) 14. Windows Me (2000) 15. Windows XP (2001) 16. Windows XP 64 -bit Edition (2003) 17. Windows Server 2003 (2003) 18. Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (2006) 19. Windows Vista (2007) 20. Windows Home Server (2007) 21. Windows Server 2008 (2008) 22. Windows 7 (exit date - on October 22, 2009) 23. Windows Server 2008 R 2 (it is earlier known as Windows Server 7) 24. Windows 8 (2012) 25. Windows 8. 1 (2013)

Advantages and disadvantages of Windows operating systems • Windows is most widespread, and same is its first advantage. Really, disks with this operating system can be bought practically everywhere, besides, for Windows the huge number of various appendices and additions, not to mention modern computer games the majority from which is made only under Windows is issued. It is necessary to tell also that the majority of operations on the Internet is made by means of Windows, it both creation of sites, and their search advance and simply viewing of electronic pages. The main shortcomings of Windows are high cost of the commercial software, inability effectively to resist to invasion from out of and the general low level of protection. Besides, at Windows difficult system of activation, well, and unreasonably high requirements to the computer at all already were included in a legend.

Linux operating systems • Linux — is an operating system, is created by Linus Torvalds for personal computers and dated on September 17, 1991. • This is the most powerful alternative to MS Windows, popular as a server and dramatically gaining popularity as a desktop operating system in recent years, due to enhanced monitoring of compliance using Windows license from Microsoft in versions starting with XP and Vista.

GNU / Linux distributions • • • Most of the users to install GNU / Linux distributions use. Distribution - is not just a set of programs and a number of solutions for different user tasks, united by common systems to install, manage and upgrade packages, configuration and support. The most common distributions in the world: 1. Ubuntu 2. open. SUSE 3. Fedora 4. Debian 5. Mandriva 6. Slackware 7. Gentoo 8. Archlinux Besides the above, there are many other distributions, based on both listed and created from scratch and are often designed to perform a limited number of tasks.

Advantages and disadvantages of Linux operating systems • The most important advantage is that this system extends free of charge. Also Linux practically isn't susceptible to viruses as many of them are written under Windows. A large number of programs is integrated into system in the form of packages that isn't present in Windows. Besides, Linux has the minimum system requirements, and always there is an opportunity to adjust system under itself, it is natural in the presence of the corresponding knowledge. The main shortcomings of Linux are connected with its low popularity. It and lack of many drivers, some codecs for video, and impossibility of support of modern games.

Sources HTTP: //UALINUX. COM/ HTTP: //CERTIFICATIONS. RU HTTP: //HELP. UBUNTU. RU HTTP: //WIKI. MVTOM. RU HTTP: //INF 777. NAROD. RU HTTP: //RU. WIKIBOOKS. ORG HTTP: //RU. WIKIPEDIA. ORG

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