GNU Public License POS/355 March 22‚ 2014 The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast‚ the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. When I say “free” I don’t mean free of charge‚ I mean free to do what you want with the program or file. To have your freedom to download
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GNU Public License Greg Scott POS/355 June 22‚ 2013 Prakash Pattnaik GNU Public License Study of software development and the free exchange of ideas promised by advances in computer technology were both slowed by the corporate privatization of operating systems. Companies wanted to keep the source codes of their systems secret and safe from manipulation. The sharing of information and open-source methods of the first pioneering programmers were brought to a halt by copyright
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Four Failures That Matter Jimmie L Green POS/355 July 10‚ 2014 James Johnsen Four Failures That Matter Introduction: Operating systems has come a long way and a much improvement in the way each system built. This paper will discuss the four common types of distributed computer system failures‚ which are crash failure also known as operating system failure. Hardware failure. Omission failures and byzantine failures. Included in the discussion are failures‚ which can also occur
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Memory Management Differences Between Windows and Linux POS/355 October 6‚ 2014 Jeff Rugg Memory Management System Memory is essential to the operation of any computer system. Memory is comprised of a large collection of bytes‚ each with its own address. What is memory management? It is the method for controlling and coordinating the computer’s memory‚ assigns blocks to numerous programs that are running in order to enhance the systems overall performance. Memory management is located in
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June 6‚ 2013 Open and Closed Source Systems POS/355 Option One GNU Introduction The GNU General Public License has served a major role in the way people think of programs today. The GNU‚ or simply GPL is originally written by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The case is‚ most software’s don’t want you to share or change the program. This means that they are trying to take away freedoms of having the program. What the GNU General Public License is designed to do is the
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Failures that May Occur in a Distributed Systems Robert Marler POS/355 September 1‚ 2014 Kelvin Upson Failures that May Occur in a Distributed Systems A distribution systems is a collection of processors that have a common goal for their system. Some examples would be SOA-based systems‚ massively multiplayer online games and peer-to-peer applications. The distributed system is software systems in which components located on network computers. This systems communicate and coordinate through
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Chrome OS Emulator Patrick Pettingill Intro to Operating Systems POS/355 Steven Schoen May 20‚ 2013 Chrome OS Emulator I came into this assignment with much misguided enthusiasm. I downloaded Chrome OS to try out. I used Vanilla to install it from the thumb drive and unlock the little-talked-about Chrome OS. The Initial Boot When booting up Chrome OS for the initial run it took over 3 minutes‚ I will attribute this to the fact that it was loading from a thumb drive. On system resume
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Differences in memory management between Windows® and Linux® POS/355 Differences in memory management between Windows® and Linux® Windows and Linux are two of the most commonly used operating systems to date. Windows is used more by beginners and everyday computer users‚ while Linux is used more by advanced users and is dubbed the hackers operating system. Both the operating systems have their advantages and their disadvantages. This paper will be differentiate the two in the operating systems
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Internet Operating Systems Andrew S Minette POS/355 University of Phoenix Internet operating systems‚ or Web operating systems‚ are not operating systems per say. There are more of user interfaces. An operating system is dependent on system hardware and uses hard disk space on a user computer to install and store applications. Web operating systems‚ however‚ depend on traditional operating systems to run an instance. According to Jonathan Strickland or How Stuff Works‚ while there may not
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Memory Management Requirements Tyler Reeves POS 355 August 12‚ 2013 Michele Gamberutti Memory Management Requirements For any operating system to function properly‚ one of the vital tasks it must be able to do is manage memory. When a program runs on a computer‚ it first must be loaded into memory before it can execute. There are five different requirements memory management must satisfy in order to execute the program so it runs without errors or corruption. These requirements are relocation
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