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    the path of "closed mindedness." A "closed minded" person believes everything is either in black or white‚ with no gray area in between. They do not allow themselves to see the possibilities of alternatives to what they presently hold as facts. To argue with a closed-minded person could be compared to arguing with a brick wall. You’re not going to get very far. Closed-minded people generally do not want their outlooks changed on subjects that they hold as truth. Some examples of closed-minded people

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    The source code has to be distributed with the program‚ you cannot restrict people from redistributing/modifying/using the software‚ and users must be allowed to redistribute modified versions under the same terms/licensing. 4. What is the Free Software Foundation/GNU? What is Linux? Which parts of the Linux operating system did each provide? Who else has helped build and refine this operating system? GNU stands for "GNU’S Not Unix"‚ and it was designed to be a UNIX-like operating system developed

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    don’t override the changes of another user. 3. System portability A major contribution of the UNIX system was its portability‚ permitting it to move from one brand of computer to another with a minimum of code changes. At a time when different computer lines of the same vendor didn’t talk to each other -- yet alone machines of multiple vendors -- that meant a great savings in both hardware and software upgrades. It also meant that the operating system could be upgraded without having all the customer’s

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    HISTORY OF OPERATIMG SYSTEMS Operating systems (OS) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer‚ and the linkages needed to control and synchronize computer hardware. On the first computers‚ with no operating system‚ every program needed the full hardware specification to run correctly and perform standard tasks‚ and its own drivers for peripheral devices like printers and punched paper card readers. The growing complexity of hardware and application programs

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    Operating system virtualization is a method of altering a standard operating system so it may handle multiple users all at the same time. These individual users would not have any interaction with one another. Their information would also remain separate‚ even though they are using the same system. While this technology has several uses‚ the most common uses are in hosting situations and server consoladation. With operating system virtualazation‚ a single system is set up to operate like several

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    changing an operating system......... An operating system is the program that manages all the application programs in a computer system. This also includes managing the input and output devices‚ and assigning system resources. Operating systems evolved as the solution to the problems that were evident in early computer systems‚ and coincide with the changing computer systems. Three cycles are clear in the evolution of computers‚ the mainframe computers‚ minicomputers and microcomputers‚ and each

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    EVOLUTION OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM Operating systems as they are known today trace their lineage to the first distinctions between hardware and software. The first digital computers of the 1940s had no concept of abstraction; their operators inputted machine code directly to the machines they were working on. As computers evolved in the 1950s and 1960s however‚ the distinction between hardware such as the CPU and memory (or Core as it was called then) and the software that was written on top of it

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    ELM PYTHON Chapter 4 1. “reject the shell is like rejecting all gears except first in your car” – explain . (gear in the car is use to adjust its speed ‚ same as the shell in the operating system we cannot interact with the kernel and do something to the settings without it) 2. What is the use of options in the command?( Options determine how the command operates) 3. What is the use of arguments in the command?( arguments determine what it operates on) 4. Who develop “bourne shell”?( Stephen

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    1. Introduction: An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is a vital component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs usually require an operating system to function. For any computer to function‚ it must have an operating system (OS). A powered computer with no operating system will only display coded text messages only understandable to the computer

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    TYPES OF OPERATING SYSTEM Real-time Operating System: It is a multitasking operating system that aims at executing real-time applications. Real-time operating systems often use specialized scheduling algorithms so that they can achieve a deterministic nature of behavior. The main object of real-time operating systems is their quick and predictable response to events. They either have an event-driven or a time-sharing design. An event-driven system switches between tasks based of their priorities

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